(autarky does not encourage technological transfer).

“Autarky has never promoted prosperity.”

— Thomas Piketty

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

— Alex Comfort

The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore,…

— Pope Pius XII

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for…

— Bernard Baruch

We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities.

— Edward Snowden

We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.

— Anthony Daniels

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire…

— Daniel Dennett

We're living in a technological world. You cannot tell me we can't do a better job getting that information.

— Hillary Clinton

Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet…

— Nam June Paik

Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a…

— Jaron Lanier

The Cheney team had, for example, technological supremacy over the National Security Council staff. That is to say, they could read their e-mails. I…

— Lawrence Wilkerson

All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing…

— Lewis Nkosi

Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A…

— Jacques Ellul

Technological consciousness takes itself dead seriously; it has no sense of humor. The fool can play no role in it, for there is no…

— Donald Phillip Verene

If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a…

— Tom Peters