Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.” — Michael P. Naughton Copy Share Image
“Technological progress has a very different agenda. It doesn’t want to listen to our inner voices. It wants to control them.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It turns out that the greatly underestimated downside of technological progress is a fractured world. — Isabelle Kocher Copy Share Image
[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty? — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a… — Rudolf Christoph Eucken Copy Share Image
If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled,… — Peter Thiel Copy Share Image
“Some have argued that the current era of rapid technological progress serves labor, and some have argued that it serves capital. What… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the indoctrinated notion that reducing existence to the essentials is for half-wits and losers in this golden age of technological… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass… — Sam Brownback Copy Share Image
If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
The human species does not necessarily move in stages from progress to progress ... history and civilization do not advance in tandem.… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic, and… — Ralph Linton Copy Share Image
We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
You can't just stop technological progress. Even if one country stops researching artificial intelligence, some other countries will continue to do it.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Some people think it's a law that when productivity goes up, everybody benefits. There is no economic law that says technological progress… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“Letter to the tech giants: When fame and abundance kiss somebody’s feet before that person is wise enough, he or she is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I’m serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it, — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image