Technology Quotes

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Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense. — Richard Dawkins
This is taking [photos] from everybody - the entire collective memory of what the Earth looks like - and linking all of that together. — Blaise Aguera y Arcas
[With Photosynth,] all of those photos become linked together, and they make something emergent that's greater than the sum of the parts. — Blaise Aguera y Arcas
In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial intelligence,… — Martin Rees
By 2010 computers will disappear. They'll be so small, they'll be embedded in our clothing, in our environment. Images will be written directly to our… — Ray Kurzweil
It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that ... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a… — Burt Rutan
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him… — Arthur Koestler
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact… — Octavio Paz
In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels,… — John Ruskin
Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly… — Janet Morris
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have… — Lewis Mumford
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with… — Marshall McLuhan
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel… — Mahatma Gandhi
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies… — Edward Dahlberg
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may… — Thomas Carlyle
I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even… — Jeff Bezos
Technology is very seductive, and it is certainly changing the way things are designed and made and taught. The problem is when technology has seduced… — Arthur Ganson
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. — Charles Kettering
Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death. — Ayn Rand
The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new… — Scott McNealy

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