Quotes About Technology

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements ... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Probably the most dangerous and powerful industrialist of our age. [About Bill Gates]

The vision is really that in the information age the microprocessor-based machine, the PC, along with great software, can become sort of the ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but numbers and pictures, and eventually, even difficult things lik.

Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for one whose mind is teeming with ideas, imagery, for a prolific worker who would be slowed down by painting or sculpting, for one who sees quickly and acts decisively, accurately.

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools.

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war.

I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has no morals; and with no moral restraints man will destroy himself ecologically, militarily, or in some other way. Only God can give a person moral restraints and spiritual strength.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed...

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself.

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.

There are now more TV's in British households than there are people - which is a bit of a worry.

Kid to his Dad as they watch TV: Dad, tell me again how when you were my age you had to walk all the way across the room to change a channel.