Technology Quotes

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second - Rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.

Douglas Adams, The Guardian

I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.

Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.

Robert E. Kahn

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.

Max Lucado

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

Alice Kahn

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

Scott Adams, Dilbert

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

James Klass

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

R. Buckminster Fulle

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.

David Browe

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.

Max Frisch