Quotes About Technology

Electronic equipment replaces neither Eyes, Hands, nor Heart.

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

Na realidade, prefiro a ciência à religião. Se me fizerem escolher entre Deus e o ar condicionado, fico com o ar.

each thread can transmit electrical currents…so that Americans will one day…be able to recharge their cellphones with their polo shirts…. Technologically Enabled Clothing…has developed [a vest that conceals]…a "hydration system," a back pocket for a water bottle with a straw running through the vest's collar

I had a myocardial infarction that registered at the oceanography lab in Tokyo.

In those days the planes had propellers and couldn't make the trip nonstop and, worst of all, traveled through the sky.

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.

If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread - these are two laws of nature. If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood!

Reason comes to do battle for you. You are reassured. Reason is fully equipped with the latest weapons technology. But, to your amazement, despite superior tactics and a number of undeniable victories, reason is laid low.

Modern man may deify science and technology and set up a religion of 'Scientific Humanism' which offers the utopian prospect of unlimited progress. But all such constructions are inevitably fragile, since they are dependent on human will as well as intelligence, and we have seen in our own generation how the irrational element in human nature may prove stronger than scientific intelligence.

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies and plunked them into an artificial world of leisure.

I've butchered my own chickens, milked my own goats, and ridden in Amish buggies, and believe me, when it comes to meals and daily commutes, you need only one go-round with those experiences to appreciate how nice it is to have machines take all the gore, udders, and manure off your hands.

Es hace poco que contamos con la tecnología necesaria para convertir el holgazaneo en una forma de vida; hemos cogido nuestros cuerpos vigorosos y resistentes de cazadores-recolectores y los hemos dejado caer en un mundo artificial de ocio.

The music coming from inside sounded like robots fucking. And complaining about it. In rhythmic monotone. European robots.

Il mondo ha stampato libri per 450 anni, eppure la polvere da sparo ha tuttora una più larga diffusione. Non importa! L'inchiostro da stampa è il più grande esplosivo: vincerà.

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

I'm taking a bit of a wait-and-see attitude towards 3D.

I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.

For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.