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Technology Quotes

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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

– Walker Percy

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

– John Naisbitt

Two thirds of the earth’s population lives and dies without ever making or receiving a phone call.

Theres no point in having that idealistic view that in the future technology is going to rescue us. Theres no point in thinking technology is evil and its going to destroy us. The good and the bad come from the people.

– Simon Phipps

There will be a road. It will not connect two points. It will connect all points. Its speed limit will be the speed of light. It will not go from here to there. There will be no more there. We will all only be here.

– MCI TV commercial

There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute force and ignorance.

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

– Charles Anthony Richard Hoare

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

– Albert Einstein

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

– B.F. Skinner

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

The most important space in the “space age” is between the ears.

– Thomas J. Barlow

The most elegant computer programming language is the one that best matches the problem, the selected algorithm, and the programmer’s preferred methodology and style.

That’s the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

– Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle

Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.

– Albert Einstein

Technology does not drive change — it enables change.

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

– H. Mumford Jones

Normal people believe that it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.

– Scott Adams

Men have become the tools of their tools.

– Henry David Thoreau

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

– John F. Kennedy

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

– Alan Turing

It’s currently a problem of access to gigabytes through punybaud.

– J. C. R. Licklider

In science, one can learn the most by studying what seems the least. Solomon said “Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise.”

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

– Groucho Marx

I didn’t build it. I didn’t sell it to you. I didn’t break it. I’m just here to fix it.

– Johans Gustoff Wagner

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

– R. Buckminster Fuller

Humans ability to invent new things almost always exceeds their capacity to make them function correctly.

Given any controversial topic, any book about it that reaches the best-seller list is most likely wrong.

– Henry Palka

For half the people in the world, the nearest telephone is a two-day walk away.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

– Richard Feynman

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

– Richard Feynman