Technology Quotes: Inspiring Insights & Reflections on the Digital World

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

Godfrey Reggio, Director

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

Clive James, Author

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

Ursula K. Le Guin, 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

"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 science of today is the technology of tomorrow"

Edward Teller, Physicist

"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

"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

"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

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

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"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

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

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

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

"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

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

Daniel J. Boorstin, Historian

"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

"Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master"

Christian Lous Lange, 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

"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

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

Freeman Thomas, Designer

"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

"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

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

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"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

"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other"

Bill Gates, Businessman

"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

"What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Technology is not neutral"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

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