Quotes About Technology

Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God.

Man is the only animal to borrow tools.

In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today

For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

Men are climbing to the moon, but they don't seem interested in the beating human heart.

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.

Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.

Our age is one of guided missiles and unguided men.

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn't know about them.

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope.

So I went to buy a watch, and the man in the shop said "Analogue." I said "No, just a watch."

Modern man has lost the option of silence.

I think I was brought up with games and I don't think that they're just Pac-Man or Space Invaders. I think we've moved on, I think that there are stories being told and worlds being explored.

The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.

A computer program is a message from a man to a machine. The rigidly marshaled syntax and the scrupulous definitions all exist to make intention clear to the dumb engine.

The finest mode of transport known to man.