Technology Quotes

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.

So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.

Very interested in any technology that can help create a safer and more secure America.

We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

The whole world is pretending the breakthrough is in technology. The bottleneck is really in art.

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 have never gone bowling together?

I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts.

I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, said that whenever he could not see his way clearly, he knelt down and prayed for light and understanding.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

The most important thing in the professional wrestling industry in this day and age of technology and the Internet and social media is to be able to make wrestling unpredictable.

Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

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

Technology will have moved on to an unimaginable level in ten years.

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

A whole new series of technologies like biotechnology, virtual reality, and super-computerization are appearing now that are leading us away from our nature-based roots.

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.

I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.

Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.

Electronic communication is an instantaneous and illusory contact that creates a sense of intimacy without the emotional investment that leads to close friendships.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

Im not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.

I'm one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline.

They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.

The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies.

The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.

The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.

The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn't on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.

Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.

Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.

What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.

Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.

In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.

Children are the most wonderful audiences. What's struck me most is that that they watch it so silently, until the end when they shriek and shout and clap.

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.

Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence