Quotes About Technology

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.  ~ Carl Sagan


For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.  ~ Alice Kahn


Technology ...  is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.  ~ C.P. Snow


It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.  ~ Clive James


The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour.  ~ Arthur C. Clarke


Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.  ~ Albert Einstein


The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.  ~ Sydney J. Harris

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?  ~ Al Boliska


We cannot get grace from gadgets.  ~ J.B. Priestley


Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.  ~ Pablo Picasso


Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.  ~ John F. Kennedy


One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.  ~ Elbert Hubbard


Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.  ~ Henry David Thoreau


Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.  ~ Frank Capra


Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.  ~ J. K. Rowling


Technology is the knack of so organizing the world that we don't have to experience it. ~ Max Frisch


It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.  ~ Albert Einstein


Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.  ~ Aldous Huxley


Technology makes the world a new place. ~ Shoshana Zuboff


The human spirit must prevail over technology.  ~ Albert Einstein


We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.  ~ Carl Sagan


Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.  ~ Douglas Adams