Technology Quotes

3408 Technology quotes by 1923 unique authors

Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need… — Rodney Brooks
When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere. — Rodney Brooks
Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population, technology… — Paul MacCready
The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based. — Paul MacCready
We're short on wisdom; we're high on technology. Where's it going to lead? — Paul MacCready
It's not going to be just humans colonizing space, it's going to be life moving out from the Earth, moving it into its kingdom. And… — Freeman Dyson
I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take… — Robert Ballard
What's society going to be like when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but… — Clifford Stoll
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ... The… — Daniel Goleman
There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry or answers that… — Daniel Goleman
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

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