Quotes About Technology

Electricity for example was considered a very Satanic thing when it was first discovered and utilized.

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.

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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and are therefore inherently immoral. This is true even when a war is considered "just," because it is fought against a tyrant, against an aggressor, to correct a stolen boundary.

Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!

techno boy -- seventeen years old. junior. red car. works at a restaurant. it hurts when he smiles. dandruff. computers, electronic music. seeking a girl that won't eat his heart with a steak knife.

Technology does not create learning just as a hammer does not make a house. Technology simplifies or amplifies our learning capacity. A microscope enables us to see the micro world. A telescope helps us see the macro world. It is not the microscope or telescope that sees. The two instruments are just accessories for our eyes. It is we who see through our human capacity of visual perception. Too much obsession with technology is like trying to design a house with a hammer in hand.

We are trying to build peace by inventing new war machines; if that isn't insanity than what is?

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

It was getting harder, however. American magazines still looked shiny and lively, but by the early 1960s, writers like Flora were sensing trouble. With television's exploding popularity, more and more people were staring at screens instead of turning pages. Big corporations like car manufacturers were pulling their advertising dollars out of print and spending them on the airwaves. Magazines were bleeding ad pages and readers, and editors scrambled to balance budgets by retooling audiences.

As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

As we transform ourselves into creatures of the screen, we face an existential question: Does our essence still lie in what we know, or are we now content to be defined by what we want? If we don't grapple with that question ourselves, our gadgets will be happy to answer it for us.

man can live or work far beyond the earth's atmosphere … the first nation to do this will control the earth.

A ruthless foe established on a space station could actually subjugate the peoples of the world,

Anybody spending $40 billion in a race to the moon for national prestige is nuts,' declared Eisenhower.

The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety.

My mother's words are my mirror. My laptop is my veil of shame. I hide in it all the time.

I have been making footprints in the dust and glitter of the virtual universe. It never occurred to me that, like the medusa, technology stares back and that its gaze might have petrified me, made me fearful to come down, down to Earth, where all the hard stuff happens, down to the check-out tills and the barcodes and the too many words for profit and the not enough words for pain.

a dashboard for your body' (New York Times, 4 August 2011), and self-trackers are often described as 'body hacking' or as 'bio hackers'.

Every time a hillbilly hears his cell phone ring, an angel gets a beer.

I've tried word processors, but I think I'm too old a dog to use one.

Untuk itulah ia membutuhkan teknologi, sekadar jadi pembatas buku dari halaman-halaman waktu.

Whose idea was it that we should all get jobs, work faster, work better, race from place to place with our brains stewing on tweets, blogs, and sound bites, on must-see movies, must-do experiences, must-have gadgets, when in the end, all any of us will have is our simple beating heart, reaching up for the connection to whoever might be in the room or leaning into our mattress as we draw our last breath.