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Quotes About Technology

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.
~ Marya Mannes
We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.
~ Frithjof Schuon
One of the things that I think is true is that encryption actually is able to secure our communications, that every individual can use encryption, and that it's accessible and in many cases free.
~ Laura Poitras
Those who are mastering more and more the communications revolution, those who realize that there are no borders in the world, are the ones who are going to leap ahead.
~ Romeo Dallaire
The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away.
~ Stan Lee
The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
~ Frank Moore Colby
What worries me is that now, communication is virtual.
~ Franca Sozzani
Radio affects most intimately, person-to-person, offering a world of unspoken communication between writer-speaker and the listener.
~ Marshall McLuhan
The advantage of modern means of communication is they enable you to worry about things in all of the world
~ Laurence J. Peter
Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
It's ironic, but true, that in this age of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever.
~ Regis McKenna
There should be no "means of communication" which "we cannot read".
~ David Cameron
Mobile is the future, and there's no such thing as communication overload.
~ Eric Schmidt
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
We are in the midst of a VoIP communications revolution.
~ Jeff Pulver
One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness.
~ Rachel Cohn
Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.
~ Werner Herzog
The quality of business communications has become poorer in recent years as people avoid phone calls and face-to-face meetings, I can only assume, in some misguided quest for efficiency.
~ Richard Branson
Anyone familiar with the marvels of the Worldwide Web can hardly fail to see that we have entered a new era in communications on a scale perhaps comparable to the invention of the Gutenberg press.
~ Randal Marlin
We're going to try to do more to communicate the value of activation to customers in addition to making the process simpler and more consistent.
~ Steve Ballmer
People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy.
~ J. G. Ballard