Technology Quotes

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

Alas, our technology has marched ahead of our spiritual and social evolution, making us, frankly, a dangerous people.

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

Technology is society made durable.

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!

Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.

Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom

Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.

Although many believe that technology automatically enables more realistic expression, I believe that is just not correct.

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.

Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.

The technology itself is not transformative. It's the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create.

Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.

A sustainable human community is designed in such a manner that its ways of life, technologies, and social institutions honor, support, and cooperate with nature's inherent ability to sustain life.

Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

It is not about bits, bytes and protocols, but profits, losses and margins.

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

We now have in our hands—really, in our libraries—the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven billion years.

The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.

The world used to think we are a land of snake charmers and black magic. But our youth has surprised the world with its IT [information technology] skills. I dream of a digital India.

When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

Our quest for a Digital India is all encompassing. It is going to touch your lives in several ways, making it easier.

The more high technology around us, the more the need for human touch...HighTech/High Touch. The principle symbolizes the need for balance between our physical and spiritual reality.

Science and technology can solve all the world's problems, and historically it has been shown to make the world better and better.

At most project meetings, everyone has a seat at the table except the poor victims who will have to operate the technology.

Thanks to the Internet, people we might have only suspected of being idiots can now give us ample evidence.

Sound unique and commit... the human has to transcend technology and that's what people will hear.

All that science can achieve is a perfect knowledge and a perfect understanding of the action of natural and moral forces.

Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.