Technology Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of technology quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“I know there’s a proverb which that says ‘To err is human,’ but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.”
– Agatha Christie

“People today have forgotten they’re really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on which our lives depend. They always think they can make something better. Especially scientists. They may be smart, but most don’t understand the heart of nature. They only invent things that, in the end, make people unhappy. Yet they’re so proud of their inventions. What’s worse, most people are, too. They view them as if they were miracles. They worship them. They don’t know it, but they’re losing nature. They don’t see that they’re going to perish. The most important things for human beings are clean air and clean water.”
– Akira Kurosawa

“Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?”
– Al Boliska

“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.”
– Alan Kay

“The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.”
– Alan Kay

“Modern technology. Owes ecology. An apology. ”
– Alan M. Eddison.

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

“In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.”
– Alan Perlis

“Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.”
– Alan Watts

“It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity”
– Albert Einstein

“Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.”
– Albert Einstein

“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”
– Albert Einstein.

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
– Aldous Huxley

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.”
– Alfred North Whitehead

“Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.”
– Alvin Toffler

“Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.”
– Ambrose Bierce

“The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.”
– Andrew Brown

“Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.”
– Andrew Heller

“Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.”
– Andy Grove

“Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.”
– Andy Grove

“Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.”
– Andy Grove

“Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.”
– Andy Rooney

“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“What the country needs are a few labormaking inventions.”
– Arnold H. Glasow

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
– Arthur C. Clarke

“Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”
– Arthur C. Clarke

“We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.”
– Author Unknown

“A TV can insult your intelligence, but nothing rubs it in like a computer. ”
– Author Unknown

“Mac users swear by their computers. PC users swear at their computers.”
– Author Unknown

“The internet: where men are men, women are women, and children are FBI agents.”
– Author Unknown

“The greatest danger in modern technology isn’t that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines”
– Author unknown

“There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don’t. ”
– Author unknown

“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
– B. F. Skinner

“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG”
– Bill Gates

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