Technology Quotes – famous quotes about technology

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasn’t aware of it yet. -Bruce Sterling

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data. -Reed Hundt

We’re still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution. -Scott Cook

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. -Orrin Hatch

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

The new information technology… Internet and e-mail… have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. -Peter Drucker

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. -Thomas Sowell

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. -Alan Watts

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? -Abdul Kalam

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people. -Steve Jobs

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

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

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

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer. -Jeff Bridges

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that’s why that old music feels so good to me. -Christina Aguilera

You can’t really imagine music without technology. -Brian Eno

There’s nothing wrong with technology. It’s when technology is the story and not the artist, that’s the problem. -Billy Corgan

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way. -Marshall McLuhan

Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born. -Alan Kay

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. -Christopher Hitchens

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now. -Jeff Bridges

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. -Arthur M. Schlesinger

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. -John Lasseter

I love technology. -William Shatner

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for. -Stephen Covey

Technology favors horrible people. -Doug Coupland

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

It’s a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field. -Stephen Covey

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. -Karl Popper

I’ve always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit. -Deepak Chopra

Technology Quotes- To make a rock’n’roll record, technology is the least important thing. -Keith Richards

I go and see anything that’s visually new, any technology that’s about picture-making. The technology won’t make the pictures different, but someone using it will. -David Hockney

Technology is teaching us to be human again. -Simon Mainwaring

Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world. -Simon Mainwaring

You’d think that in this age, especially in the 21st century – especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we’ve made – that we would figure out how to tackle abuse. -Tori Amos

Not since the digital revolution in the early ’90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace. -Simon Mainwaring

If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it. -Neil Armstrong

I’m very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement. -Brian Eno

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet. -Brian Eno

Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that. -Jeff Bridges