Technology Quotes

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

Richard Feynman

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

Alice Kahn

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.

David Browe

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.

Max Frisch

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

Scott Adams, Dilbert

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

John Kenneth Galbraith

If our greatest need had been information, God would have sent an educator. If our greatest need had been technology, God would have sent us a scientist. If our greatest need had been money, God would have sent us an economist. But since our greatest need was forgiveness, God sent us a Savior.

Max Lucado

I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self - Defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha - - which is to demean oneself.

Robert M. Pursig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second - Rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.

Douglas Adams, The Guardian

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

James Klass

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Technology made large populations possible large populations now make technology indispensable.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Omar Bradley

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

R. Buckminster Fulle