Technology Quotes - Page 2

• If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.

  Arno Allan Penzias

  Want, Computer, Ifs

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• Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Automation, Efficiency, Operations

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Way, Organized

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• As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Age, Automation

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• If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Money, Business

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

  Clive James

  Witty, Powerful, Science

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.

  Andre Heller

  Computer, Shelves, Fishes

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• The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

  Edward Teller

  Teacher, Science, Today

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• The human spirit must prevail over technology.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Science

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• It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Witty, Humorous

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• Ethics change with technology.

  Larry Niven

  Ethics

  "Niven's Laws". larryniven.net. 2002.

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  We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

  Carl Sagan

  Motivational, Education, Knowledge

  "Why We Need To Understand Science". The Skeptical Inquirer Vol. 14, Issue 3, www.csicop.org. Spring 1990.

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• Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

  Laurie Anderson

  Stories, Campfire, Old Technology

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• The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Nature, Science, Men

  "Wind, Sand and Stars" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, translated by Lewis Galantière, (Ch. III), 1939.

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• Are you lazy or just incompetent?

  Jeff Bezos

  Lazy, Incompetent

  “Jeff Bezos biography: five things we learn about the Amazon founder” by Leo Benedictus, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2013.

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• The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Art, Dysfunction

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.23, Penguin

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• I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

  Bill Gates

  Inspiring, Success, Business

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• Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

  Steve Wozniak

  Computer, Window, Never Trust

  "How Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak Gets Things Done". Interview with Kevin Purdy, lifehacker.com. April 22, 2009.

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• Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Fun, Knowledge, Science

  "Working Profile; Helping the Library of Congress Fulfill Its Mission" by Barbara Gamarekian, archive.nytimes.com. July 8, 1983.

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• Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

  George Orwell

  Men, Development, Development Of Technology

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You affect the world by what you browse.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  World, Old Technology

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• The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Intelligent, Light, Dumb

  Marshall McLuhan (1969). “Counter blast [by] Marshall McLuhan”

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• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

  B. F. Skinner

  Real, Science, Men

  'Contingencies of Reinforcement' (1969) ch. 9

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• Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

  Alan Kay

  Born

  "An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay". techland.time.com. April 02, 2013.

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  Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Data Collection

  1959 'Reflection on the Atomic Bomb', collected in Robert A Goodwin (ed) Readings in World Politics (1959).

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