Quotes About Balance

It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

We limit how much technology our kids use at home.

We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.

In any conflict between humanity and technology, humanity will win.

We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

In every case do the opposite to whatever technology does today. Then you will always be on the right track.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.

I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects.

Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

A theory must be tempered with reality.

Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction.

Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don't become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.

You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.

There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what's happening in the nondigital world