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Technology Quotes by Jacques Ellul
- Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option…
- Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the…
- What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in the use of…
- Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision…
- The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in order…
- It is the multiplication of men who are exluded from working which provokes war. We ought at least to bear this in mind when we…
- Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to…
- Enclosed within his artificial creation, man finds that there is “no exitâ€; that he cannot pierce the shell of technology again to find the ancient…
More Technology Quotes
- Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes… — David Boies
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. — Margaret Atwood
- The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. — John Perry Barlow
- Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. — John Perry Barlow
- Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. — Dave Barry
- I get mail; therefore I am. — Scott Adams