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Quotes About Technology

Every action and decision we take – or don't – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.
~ Jacque Fresco
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
~ Cory Doctorow
The nature of technology depends very much upon what the public can be induced to put up with.
~ Joan Robinson
Every girl deserves to take part in creating the technology that will change our world and change who runs it.
~ Malala Yousafzai
It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
Compressed air can provide limitless amounts of clean energy using technology we have had for hundreds of years.
~ Bill Mollison
One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.
~ Joseph Weizenbaum
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
~ Bill Gates
It's creating things that make enough money to create resources to generate new technologies to have those technologies to generate more resources so I can make more things happen.
~ Reggie Watts
Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch
Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.
~ Dalai Lama
Consumers today are less responsive to traditional media. They are embracing new technologies that empower them with more control over how and when they are marketed to.
~ Jim Stengel
This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.
~ Eric Allman
The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.
~ Andrei Codrescu
The trouble is that all-encompassing though information technology may be, it will always convey facts and numbers ... what it does not convey is perception, belief and motivation.
~ John Harvey-Jones
But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
~ Harrison Schmitt
Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept.
~ Jesse Eisenberg
We really kind of pioneered a technology here at Fossil Rim where we use ultrasound on both our white rhinos and black rhinos and we can even document pregnancy in animals at about 30 days.
~ Bruce Williams
The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.
~ Marco Tempest
Any fool can use a computer. Many do.
~ Ted Nelson
When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.
~ Howard Zinn
Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.
~ Pete Seeger
Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.
~ Don Tapscott