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Quotes About Technology

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.
~ Neil Postman
We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.
~ Martin Amis
In this day and age of digital media, as we've learned, it's not as though nobody's going to find out what you said.
~ Michael Bennet
I think the age we're living in is starting to get scary.
~ Paula Patton
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
~ J. J. Abrams
I was broadcast-struck from an early age; I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.
~ Nigel Rees
We live in an age now where so many people watch movies based on what Netflix recommends. It learns your taste and they really understand viewer habits.
~ Eli Roth
In our benighted age, when films about amusement park rides and electronic fidgets scoop the honours, perhaps Hollywood redux is the best we can hope for.
~ Will Self
It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age.
~ Robert Bryce
In this age of 24-7 headlines, the term 'newsweekly' seems almost quaint.
~ Graydon Carter
I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.
~ Jean-Louis Gassee
Historians will consider this a dark age. Science historians can read Galileos technical correspondence from the 1590s but not Marvin Minskys from the 1960s.
~ Stewart Brand
We don't use phones anymore in this day and age, yet she still phones things in.
~ Julie Klausner
I have 5 teenage daughters, and I learned the hard way - it's difficult to talk to any person under the age of 25 without the presence of a cell phone.
~ Marc Ostrofsky
I felt like I wasn't living thoroughly enough — I was distracted in ways I wouldn't be if I'd been born in 1929.
~ Miranda July, It Chooses You
As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.
~ Craig Venter
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective.
~ Julia Cameron
I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
~ Carine Roitfeld
Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
~ Nathan Myhrvold
Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end.
~ Gray Scott
China has leapfrogged into this information age, and Web users have grown very significantly, which knocked down the cost of doing the environmental transparency.
~ Ma Jun
Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, 'Okay, I'm in the tampon aisle, but I don't see it.'
~ John Gierach