Quotes about Technology

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Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means — Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Many aspects of our screen-bound lives are bad for our social skills simply because we get accustomed to controlling the — Lynne Truss, Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door
If your Ipad can do it better than you, then it is not a skill. — Rafaa Khiari
Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more t — Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
[The] tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal devel — Ralph Linton
I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If th — Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
But though it had prevailed against such fierce adversaries as fire and flood, it had fallen victim softly and swiftly t — Kate Morton, The Forgotten Garden
Roarke didn't quite make it to Eve's office. He found her down the corridor, in front of one of the vending machines. Sh — J.D. Robb, Betrayal in Death
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the Possible
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing — R. Buckminster Fuller
First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought — Douglas Adams
But today our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face — Martin Luther King Jr.
As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we. — Julie Kagawa, The Iron King
People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend — Akira Kurosawa, Yume
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killi — Omar Nelson Bradley
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he s — Arthur C. Clarke
[Flaubert] didn’t just hate the railway as such; he hated the way it flattered people with the illusion of progress. Wha — Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
Let us fool ourselves no longer. At the very moment Western nations, threw off the ancient regime of absolute government — Lewis Mumford
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and thin — J.G. Ballard
By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it. — Eliezer Yudkowsky