Affected Quote by Emily Greene Balch

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

— Tom Shadyac

Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and…

— Neil Postman

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle.

— Tom Shadyac

Some of the technologies that were created during the Industrial Revolution were appalling, such as capitalization, investment, social hierarchy, sexism, racism, and ecological destruction.

— Chellis Glendinning

Nothing is more important than to see the sources of invention which are, in my opinion more interesting than the inventions themselves.

— Gottfried Leibniz

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound…

— Freeman Dyson

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was…

— Dean Kamen

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free…

— Peter Thiel

“inventions have eliminated so much of distance and time; for better, for worse, we are now each of us part of the surge and…

— Vera Brittain

Innovation and disruption are the hallmarks of the technology world, and hardly a moment passes when we are not thinking, doing, or talking about…

— Steven Sinofsky

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

— Jaron Lanier

The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those…

— Johannes Grenzfurthner