841 private quotes tagged technology

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“I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.”— Steve Jobs
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“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
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“It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.”— Marshall McLuhan
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“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
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“Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.”— Karl Popper
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“All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.”— Carl Sagan
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“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.”— Ambrose Bierce
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“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”— Albert Einstein
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“We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.”— Carl Sagan
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“The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.”— Oscar Wilde
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“Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.”— Ambrose Bierce
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“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”— Elbert Hubbard
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“With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution.”— Steve Jobs
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“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”— Carl Sagan
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“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.”— John F. Kennedy
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“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.”— Bill Gates
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“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”— John F. Kennedy
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“It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.”— Steve Jobs
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“Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.”— Niels Bohr
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“The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.”— Dave Barry
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“As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'”— Marshall McLuhan
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“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”— R. Buckminster Fuller
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“Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.”— Linus Torvalds
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“Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.”— Tom Hanks