logo

Quotes About Progress

With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more.
~ Paul Lutus
What we are finding out now is that there are not only limits to growth but also to technology and that we cannot allow technology to go on without public consent.
~ David R. Brower
In the old days, we painstakingly copied our emails onto paper, put a stamp on them and mailed them to arrive 4 to 5 days later. We also churned our own butter and used our phones for talking.
~ Peter Sagal
Madame Lefoux shrugged. "I do not know about that, my lady. I mean to say, one's life is one thing; one's technology is an entirely different matter.
~ Gail Carriger
Technology changes, but people stay the same.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
Technology and violence are interdependent.
~ Don DeLillo
People Propose, Science Studies, Technology Conforms.
~ Donald A. Norman
My expectation is that technology always changes.
~ Paula Scher
I think for technology and innovation we have to ignore politics.
~ Ron Conway
Technology has come such a long way and you could pretty much do everything what's called 'in the box'. It means that it never has to leave your computer.
~ Tony Vincent
We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil... The best way to break this addiction is through technology.
~ George W. Bush
All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.
~ Godfrey Reggio
Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.
~ Henry David Thoreau
My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.
~ Scott McCloud
You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.
~ Ronald Reagan
Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.
~ Edgar Friedenberg
If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
~ Yann Martel
The first movies, they just put up a camera and had a train come into a train station, and everybody was amazed. That was sort of all technology.
~ George Lucas
They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that count, more than religion!
~ Indira Gandhi
It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.
~ James Chanos
The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.
~ James Dyson
Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that.
~ Seth Lloyd
The liberating force of technology the instrumentalization of things turns into ... the instrumentalization of man.
~ Herbert Marcuse
I feel very fortunate to have been sort of a tiny instigator, using technology for good.
~ Rebecca Moore