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Technology Quotes

The top names on this page are sociologists and engineers, among them Charles Perrow, W. Brian Arthur and Tim Berners-Lee, with the novelist John Brunner. Aldous Huxley, in Ends and Means (1937), says technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Freeman Dyson, in Infinite in All Directions (1988), says the technologies with the deepest effects on human life are usually simple. Eric Hoffer, in 1973, wondered about a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs.

The one flagged entry is “Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology,” credited to Larry Niven and marked misattributed.

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First we had the legs race. Then we had the arms race. Now we're going to have the brain race. And, if we're lucky, the final stage will be the human race.

John Brunner The Shockwave Rider (1975)

All of our exalted technological progress, civilization for that matter, is comparable to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

I’m an open and vocal feminist on the internet, so I’m no stranger to some level of sexist backlash.

Anita Sarkeesian

Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.

Sergey Brin

I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating.

Pavel Durov

The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

Henry H. Arnold

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

Max Born My Life & My Views (1968)

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

Freeman Dyson

When technology makes it perfect, art loses.

Brian Eno

Only 12 years ago the networks were fragmented, today the Internet unites the world.

David D. Clark

I'll probably be the last to know, because I don't get on the internet no more.

Post Malone

The quest for other, and better, forms of life, society, technology, ethics, and law may not reveal that they are actually elsewhere; but it may in the long run help us to make some of them actual on earth.

Lewis White Beck

Man has created a grandiose world of technology, of which dread and fear are often the result... Fortunately, events in the world and our way of life are not determined by technology alone.

Karel Zeman

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

B. F. Skinner Reflections on Behaviorism and Society (1978)

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Alvin Toffler Future Shock (1970)

Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.

A. C. Grayling

And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes.

Ted Stevens

When sputnik and Apollo 11 fired the imagination of the world, everyone began predicting that by the end of the century, people would be living in space colonies on Mars and Pluto. Few of these forecasts came true. On the other hand, nobody foresaw the Internet.

Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

Technology does not fulfill man’s perennial dreams, but craftily mimics them.

Nicolás Gómez Dávila Escolios A Un Texto Implícito: Selección (2001)

I hear there's rumors on the internets that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period.

George W. Bush

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