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Quotes About Progress

If technology is not a metaphor for memory, what is it?
~ K.K. Raghava
It's impracticable to halt the exponential advancement of technology.
~ Ben Goertzel
In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.
~ Beth Simone Noveck
I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education.
~ Bill Gates
In a way, technologies have negated the transcendental God in order to invent the machine-God. However, these two gods raise similar questions.
~ Paul Virilio
I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.
~ Adam Driver
Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution.
~ Andy Grove
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.
~ Bill Gates
People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.
~ Bill Gates
I think that every technology company that's more than 20 years old will break up
~ Marc Andreessen
Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.
~ Peter Drucker
Theory provides the maps that turn an uncoordinated set of experiments or computer simulations into a cumulative exploration.
~ David E. Goldberg
Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.
~ David Hockney
I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.
~ Deepak Chopra
Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment.
~ Jay Samit
Life is about family and technology.
~ Mark Goddard
So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.
~ David Bohm
Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
~ James Dyson
The unprecedented development of science and technology... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today.
~ Robert Platt
The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth.
~ Thorstein Veblen
People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
~ Jaron Lanier
Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.
~ Henry Petroski
Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.
~ Freeman Dyson