Quotes for Technology

This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Jacques Ellul

You can't really imagine music without technology.

Brian Eno

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Alvin Toffler

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.

Lech Walesa

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

Unknown

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them.

Douglas Adams

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

Andrew Brown

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

B. F. Skinner

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

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

Alvin Toffler

Technology is best when it brings people together.

Matt Mullenweg

I don't feel that this concept of disruptive technology is the solution for everybody. But I think it's very important for innovators to understand what we've learned about established companies' motivation to target obvious profitable markets - and about their inability to find emerging ones. The evidence is just overwhelming.

Clayton M. Christensen

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

Clive James

The great growling engine of change - technology.

Alvin Toffler

Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'

Sam Altman

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

Jimmy Carter