Technology Quotes
3408 Technology quotes by 1923 unique authors
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You know what your trouble is? You're the kind who always reads the handbook. Anything people build, any kind of technology, it's going to have…
— William Gibson
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Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles…
— Jasper Fforde
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It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.
— John Brunner
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We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take…
— Alberto Manguel
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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if…
— Agatha Christie
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Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of…
— Yann Martel
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
— Douglas Adams
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Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.
— E F Schumacher
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Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests…
— J. G. Ballard
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All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause…
— Joss Whedon
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Funny thing about those Middle Ages, said Joseph. "They just keep coming back. Mortals keep thinking they're in Modern Times, you know, they get all…
— Kage Baker
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So much technology, so little talent.
— Vernor Vinge
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Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom,…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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What is technology?" Cian pulled his brother inside, pushed the button for the next floor. "It's another god.
— Nora Roberts
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Our technology forces us to live mythically
— Marshall McLuhan
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As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways…
— Richard Kadrey
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Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.
— Clay Shirky
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The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.
— Eckhart Tolle
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The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound.
— Marshall McLuhan
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I'm 17 years old. I'm not a straight-A student or anything. Even so, I figured out how to make an Internet that they can't wiretap.…
— Cory Doctorow
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As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can…
— James Gleick
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Robinson Crusoe, the first capitalist hero, is a self-made man who accepts objective reality and then fashions it to his needs through the work ethic,…
— Carlos Fuentes
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The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn't any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it's right. If it…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!
— Bob Dylan
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[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. What was the point of…
— Julian Barnes
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