Quotes About Technology

Young people today, for example, often watch live television (if they watch it live at all) with both the TV and their laptops or tablet devices on.

In the networked world, there are fewer Eleanor Rigbys to sing about, for

we will face a day, not long from now, when all of our information comes from digital sources, meaning that rumors and untruths can spread even more quickly than before.

Science fiction is more than just our collective dreams for a human race that reaches to the stars. In many ways, the dreams of yesterday are becoming the realities of today and the path for tomorrow.

There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon, and to prepare for new journeys to worlds beyond our own.

Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.

Le danger n'est pas dans la multiplication des machines, mais dans le nombre sans cesse croissant d'hommes habitués, dès leur enfance, à ne désirer que ce que les machines peuvent donner.

Your grandmother had an icon, your mother had a little portrait of Lenin, and you have your TV.

Progress,' said Audrey shortly....'It's important to destroy [nature] so we can have more electricity so that we can then have colour television to show us what the world is really like.

One of the hardest choices for technical stars who become leaders is losing touch with the latest in technology.

Victor Hugo once said that nothing in this world was so powerful as an idea whose time has come. In our time, the idea is technology, especially information processing technology. The programmer partakes of this technology power

Man is a tool-using animal.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

O, for an engine to keep back all clocks!

In North America there is the general belief that everything can be fixed, that life can be fixed up. In Europe, the view is that a lot can't be fixed up and that living properly is not necessarily a question of mastering the technology so much as learning to live gracefully within the constraints that the species invents.

Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office.

Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.

As both the Mercury and Apollo programs have shown, our science and technology are so powerful that, if an intense effort is made, we can do almost anything we want in say, ten years - provided we are not in conflict with the laws of nature.