Quotes About Technology

Charlie Chaplin exploited frustrations and fears about rapidly growing automation to make people laugh. It's ironic that IBM once used his tramp character as an implied advertising testimonial for computers, because Chaplin's character didn't promote machines—he ridiculed them.

Former petroleum industry analyst Jan Lundberg puts it this way, "The nation and most of the rest of the world is chasing a technofix instead of adjusting to ecological/economic reality.

like isolated apartment dwellers running the TV for company, we sense a deeper isolation beneath the babble of voices, the poverty of our communications.

The machine enslaves, the hand sets free.

hadn't the agrarian Wendell Berry written, "How could we divorce ourselves completely and yet responsibly from the technologies and powers that are destroying our planet? The answer is not yet thinkable.

All the modern inconveniences.

Some of the best times I've spent in Colorado have been in the backcountry with my mom and siblings, and more recently, with my own kids. That is why I'm concerned to see today's kids spending more time browsing the Internet than exploring nature.

A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all.

If you're texting Magnus to say 'I think u r kewl' I'm going to kill you

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

Everything's amazing right now, and nobody's happy.

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control.

It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.

I see no reason to suppose these machines will ever force themselves into general use.

Tech is a funny industry I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

Without the New York Times, there is no blog community. They'd have nothing to blog about.

Anyone who thinks it's funny to name their network "Tom'sHugeEtc" is going to think it's funny that one of his neighbors is also named Tom and is embarrassed by it.

I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark once I arrive at my destination.

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.

'Chappie' would be like 'RoboCop,' but hilarious. If you mixed 'Robocop' with 'E.T.' and it was... funny, that's what it is.

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.