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Quotes About Technology

Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away.
~ Al Gore
We are less than a decade away from the medical lab the size of a sugar cube.
~ Philippe Kahn
Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human.
~ Steven Magee
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
~ Alexander Graham Bell
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
~ Sitting Bull
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
~ Alan Turing
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
~ Alan Turing
The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet.
~ Igor Sikorsky
Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them.
~ John F. Kennedy
We can land men on the moon, but, for all our mechanical and electronic wizardry, we cannot reproduce an artificial fore-finger that can feel as well as beckon.
~ John Napier
Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will.
~ John von Neumann
We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?
~ Abbas ibn Firnas
Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.
~ Linus Torvalds
The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.
~ Rollo May
Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.
~ Zoltan Kodaly
You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
~ Walker Percy
If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.
~ Igor Sikorsky
The world sucks, man. But Tesla does have a mid-size sedan now, and that's very important to the future.
~ Vince Staples
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
~ B. F. Skinner
The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.
~ El Lissitzky
I still need Marines who can shoot and salute. But I need Marines who can fix jet engines and man sophisticated radar sets, as well.
~ Robert E. Cushman, Jr.
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this.
~ The Notorious B.I.G.