technology
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
19 quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
31 quotes from Gertrude Stein
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
5 more quotes from Omar N. Bradley
My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
3 more thoughts from An Wang
And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
2 more wisdom & wit from Toni Cade Bambara
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
105 other sayings from Albert Einstein
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
7 more quotes from B. F. Skinner
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
7 sayings from Alan Perlis
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
7 quotes from Alan Perlis
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
7 sayings from Max Frisch
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
7 other quotes from Max Frisch
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
13 quotes from Fred Allen
So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
22 other wisdom & wit from James Dyson
The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
22 sayings from James Dyson
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
11 other quotes from John Stuart Mill
Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.
2 views from John McKinley
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
3 more quotes from Richard P. Feynman
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
22 wisdom & wit from James Dyson
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
59 other quotes from Elbert Hubbard
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
26 more sayings from Frank Lloyd Wright
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
17 quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
19 other quotes from Marshall McLuhan
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
45 thoughts from Aldous Huxley
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
6 quotes from Karl Popper
Men have become the tools of their tools.
117 quotes from Henry David Thoreau
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
19 more wisdom & wit from Marshall McLuhan
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
2 other sayings from E. F. Schumacher
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
2 more quotes from Pierre Schaeffer
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
26 thoughts from Theodor Adorno
If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
2 quotes from Arthur Holly Compton
One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.
3 more quotes from Samuel Wilson
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
100 other quotes from Oscar Wilde
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
3 more wisdom & wit from Henry A. Wallace
Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
2 quotes from Bob Barr
We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.
2 more quotes from Monica Edwards
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
9 thoughts from Carl Sagan
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
9 more quotes from Carl Sagan
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
5 sayings from Max Lerner
We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.
2 sayings from Timothy Murphy
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
16 quotes from Alan Watts