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 more views from Gertrude Stein
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
5 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 wisdom & wit from An Wang
And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
2 quotes from Toni Cade Bambara
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
105 sayings from Albert Einstein
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
7 thoughts 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 wisdom & wit 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 quotes from Max Frisch
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
7 more quotes from Max Frisch
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
13 other thoughts 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 thoughts from James Dyson
The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
22 other quotes from James Dyson
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
11 quotes from John Stuart Mill
Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.
2 other quotes from John McKinley
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
3 views 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 more sayings from James Dyson
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
59 more quotes from Elbert Hubbard
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
26 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 more wisdom & wit from Marshall McLuhan
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
45 more 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 other 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 thoughts 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 more quotes 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 more thoughts from Arthur Holly Compton
One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.
3 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 views from Oscar Wilde
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
3 other quotes 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 views from Bob Barr
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 live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
9 wisdom & wit from Carl Sagan
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
9 quotes from Carl Sagan
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
5 other views 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 other views 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 more quotes from Alan Watts