Technology Quotes

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".

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

R. Buckminster Fulle

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

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

Richard Feynman

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein

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)

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

Max Frisch

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

Scott Adams, Dilbert

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.

David Browe

New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state - Of - The - Art technology.

Robert E. Kahn

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.

James Klass

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

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

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.