Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

Discover a curated collection of technology quotes capturing the spirit of innovation, problem solving, and human ingenuity. These lines reflect how tools, systems, and ideas evolve to shape daily life, industry, and culture. Browse perspectives from pioneers and practitioners, balancing optimism with critical insight. Find concise inspiration for creativity, ethics, resilience, collaboration, and responsible progress in a rapidly changing world.

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"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are"

Clive James, Author

Clive James

"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

Marshall McLuhan

"I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user"

Bill Gates, Businessman

Bill Gates

"If it looks good, it will fly good"

Bill Lear, Inventor

Bill Lear

"Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding"

Louis Gerstner, Businessman

"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is"

E. F. Schumacher, Economist

E. F. Schumacher

"Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

Christian Lous Lange

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

Arthur C. Clarke

"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris"

Orville Wright, Inventor

Orville Wright

"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware"

Alan Kay, Scientist

Alan Kay

"The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand"

Issey Miyake, Designer

Issey Miyake

"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity"

Michael Porter, Educator

Michael Porter

"Technology is not neutral"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

Godfrey Reggio

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

K. Eric Drexler

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Thomas Edison

"Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

Isaac Asimov

"Man must shape his tools lest they shape him"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

Arthur Miller

"Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living"

Nicholas Negroponte, Businessman

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

Alfred North Whitehead

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

Richard P. Feynman, Physicist

Richard P. Feynman

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

Godfrey Reggio, Director

Godfrey Reggio

"I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs"

John Warnock, Scientist

"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

Marshall McLuhan

"Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana"

Bill Gates, Businessman

Bill Gates

"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

Bill Gates

"In 1983, NASA invited Canada to fly three payload specialists, in part because we had contributed the robotic arm that is used on the shuttle"

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

Marc Garneau

"My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

R. Buckminster Fuller

"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

E. F. Schumacher

"Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

Tim Berners-Lee

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet"

William Gibson, Writer

"It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow"

Craig Bruce, Writer

Craig Bruce

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