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Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

117 other views from Henry David Thoreau

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

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 more quotes 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 quotes from E. F. Schumacher

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

2 views from Pierre Schaeffer

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

26 wisdom & wit from Theodor Adorno

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

2 other quotes from Arthur Holly Compton

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

3 other thoughts 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 thoughts from Oscar Wilde

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

3 more thoughts from Henry A. Wallace

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

9 quotes from Carl Sagan

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

2 quotes from Monica Edwards

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

9 wisdom & wit from Carl Sagan

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

2 wisdom & wit from Bob Barr

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

5 other thoughts from Max Lerner

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 thoughts from Alan Watts

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

2 wisdom & wit from Timothy Murphy

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

19 thoughts from Alfred North Whitehead

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

3 more quotes from An Wang

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

31 wisdom & wit 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

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

2 views from Toni Cade Bambara

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

105 quotes from Albert Einstein

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

7 more views from B. F. Skinner

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

7 more wisdom & wit from Alan Perlis

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

7 thoughts from Alan Perlis

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

13 other quotes from Fred Allen

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

7 more quotes from Max Frisch

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

22 more quotes from James Dyson

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

3 quotes from Richard P. Feynman

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

7 views from Max Frisch

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

11 thoughts from John Stuart Mill

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

22 quotes from James Dyson

Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.

2 sayings from John McKinley

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

22 views from James Dyson

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

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

59 views from Elbert Hubbard