Quotes About Technology

(Technology reliability) x (Human reliability) = (System reliability)

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.

Technology is society made durable.

A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

Although many believe that technology automatically enables more realistic expression, I believe that is just not correct.

Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term social and ecological problems.

Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.

Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

There is no likelihood that man can ever tap the power of the atom

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.

Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.

The technology itself is not transformative. It's the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.

How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Any teacher that can be replaced by a computer should be replaced by a computer.