Quotes on technology
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
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Alexander Chase Quotes
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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Alan C. Kay Quotes
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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Ambrose Bierce Quotes
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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J.K. Rowling Quotes
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
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R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
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Richard P. Feynman Quotes
It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
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T.S. Eliot Quotes
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.
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Jonas Salk Quotes
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
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Carl Sagan Quotes
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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Sydney J. Harris Quotes
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
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Max Frisch Quotes
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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Karl Marx Quotes
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U. S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
God never made his work for man to mend.
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John Dryden Quotes
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
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Arnold Glasow Quotes
I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!
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Author Unknown Quotes
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
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Albert Einstein Quotes
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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E.F. Schumacher Quotes
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
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Brian Eno Quotes
The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
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Dennis Gabor Quotes
Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
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E.F. Schumacher Quotes
We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us.
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John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes
Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.
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Robert M. Pirsig Quotes
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.
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Mark Kennedy Quotes
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
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Jean Arp Quotes
Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization.
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Anonymous email sig line Quotes
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
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Alice Kahn Quotes
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.
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Walter Lippmann Quotes
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
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Erich Fromm Quotes
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
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Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.
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Lewis Mumford Quotes
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Isaac Asimov Quotes
It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.
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Pearl S. Buck Quotes
Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.
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Li Ka Shing Quotes