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Quotes About Technology

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
~ Carl Sagan
Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.
~ Donna J. Haraway
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.
~ Bill Gates
Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.
~ Norman Foster
Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
~ Hedy Lamarr
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
~ E. F. Schumacher
The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.
~ Henry Petroski
I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology
~ Whitfield Diffie
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.
~ Steve Jobs
But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.
~ Charles Bass
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
~ Grace Hopper
Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.
~ Lou Gramm
The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.
~ Christopher Bond
We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.
~ Michael Eisner
Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.
~ Sherry Turkle
We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.
~ Sherry Turkle
Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.
~ Kevin Mitnick
Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.
~ John Doolittle
I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one.
~ Andy Borowitz
Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.
~ Lord Kelvin
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
~ Demetri Martin
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
~ Laurie Anderson
Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.
~ Robin S. Sharma
The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.
~ Marshall McLuhan