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Quotes About Technology

What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?
~ Amory Lovins
You've got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.
~ Steve Jobs
Shared libraries are the work of the devil, the one true sign that the apocalypse is at hand.
~ Tom Duff
Much to the surprise of the builders of the first digital computers, programs written for them usually did not work.
~ Rodney Brooks
Establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society and work to their heart's content.
~ Masaru Ibuka
One day man will connect his apparatus to the very wheel work of the universe. The very forces that motivate the planets in their orbits and cause them to rotate will rotate his own machinery.
~ Nikola Tesla
The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering-that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
~ L. Sprague de Camp
I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
~ Dean Kamen
Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Businesses can be opaque. They are complex. You don't know how aircraft engines work either.
~ Jamie Dimon
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
~ John F. Kennedy
I think my new iPhone 5S is broken. I pressed the home button and I'm still at work
~ Will Ferrell
Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.
~ Kenzo Tange
'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.
~ Keanu Reeves
Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.
~ Laurence J. Peter
In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.
~ Peter Thiel
Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.
~ Issey Miyake
They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.
~ Emil Ruder
It's fun to work the robotic arm in part because it's really a team effort.
~ Ellen Ochoa
As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.
~ Sergey Brin
Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.
~ David Suzuki
Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.
~ Zadie Smith
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this.
~ Isidor Isaac Rabi
Don't worry kids, you'll find work. After all, my machine will need strong chess player-programmers. You will be the first.
~ Mikhail Botvinnik