Technology Quotes

"Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."

"I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life."

"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."

"Some people think technology has the answers."

"The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past."

"I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology."

"I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology."

"If your strategy calls for you to be in America, then you will go into America. If your strategy calls for you to be in M&A, then you'll do an acquisition. You usually acquire a company to acquire technology, geographic advantage, etc. Similarly, geographic expansion is very much like M&A. It's done to advance a strategy."

"Mechanization best serves mediocrity."

"Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings."

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

"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."

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

"Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer."

"Technology is teaching us to be human again."

"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."

"There's absolutely no bubble in technology."

"We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience."

"Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less."

"Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content."

"I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion."

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

"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it."

"The perfect example of Darwinism is what technology has done to businesses."

"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."

"The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want."

"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."

"To master a new technology, you have to play with it."

"An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us."

"Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle."

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

"As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate."

"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."

"For me it's very important to think about AI's impact in the world, and one of the most important missions is to democratize this technology."

"I think that, hundreds of years from now, if people invent a technology that we haven't heard of yet, maybe a computer could turn evil. But the future is so uncertain. I don't know what's going to happen five years from now. The reason I say that I don't worry about AI turning evil is the same reason I don't worry about overpopulation on Mars."

"I want China to stop appropriating our technology. China is, through forced technology transfer and through stealing our technology, but really forced technology transfer, is cutting out the beating heart of American innovation."

"I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years."

"I would not describe myself as a super early adopter of consumer technology."

"I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes."

"I'm not against technology."

"I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement."

"In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average."

"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."

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

"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology."

"Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned."

"To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something."