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Quotes About Technology

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.
~ Lawrence Lessig
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.
~ Vernor Vinge
So much technology, so little talent.
~ Vernor Vinge
The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.
~ Wendell Berry
Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don't become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.
~ Dalai Lama
According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union.
~ James Fallows
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The U.S. and Israel probably lead the way in terms of venture investment in technologies companies focused on the security paradigm. That is quite encouraging.
~ John W. Thompson
I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
~ Patrick Stewart
People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.
~ Daniel Yergin
The Chernobyl technology is different from the technology which is used in the west, mainly.
~ Abdus Salam
The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety.
~ Robert M. Carter
The way we use technology is completely wasteful. We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools; In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone.
~ Jacque Fresco
High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage.
~ Alan Autry
Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.
~ Aldous Huxley
The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.
~ J.G. Ballard
But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.
~ Max Born
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.
~ Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.
~ Ridley Pearson, Killer View
The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.
~ Alex Comfort
The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.
~ John McKinley
I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.
~ Nicolas Cage
Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
~ Bob Barr
Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.
~ Jonathan Sacks