Technology Quotes: Inspiring Insights & Reflections on the Digital World

"It's not that we use technology, we live technology"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology"

Clive James, Author

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

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

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"

Dan Millman, Author

"Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion"

Timothy Garton Ash, Author

"Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses"

Arnold Newman, Photographer

"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road"

Stewart Brand, Author

"While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"The great growling engine of change - technology"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space"

Jack Schmitt, Astronaut

"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada"

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology"

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

"The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology"

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

"Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

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

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime"

Michael K. Simpson, Politician

"The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed"

John Hench, Artist

"I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives"

Freeman Thomas, Designer

"Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else"

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole"

Arthur Holly Compton, Scientist

"You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8"

Anne Hathaway, Actress

"I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature.For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule"

Nick Johnson, Athlete

"Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology"

Arthur Levitt, Public Servant

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

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

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