Technology Quotes: Inspiring Insights & Reflections on the Digital World

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

Godfrey Reggio, Director

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

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

"Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

"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

"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

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

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

"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

"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

"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

"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 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 great growling engine of change - technology"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible"

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

"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

"If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems"

Michael Porter, Educator

"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 number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

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

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

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

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology"

Carl Sagan, Scientist

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology"

Carl Sagan, Scientist

"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 without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"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

"Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity"

Jacques Ellul, Philosopher

"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 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

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