The advancement of technology generally evokes a range of emotions in people from all walks of life. Some view technology as a great evil that slowly diminishes our humanity, while others view it as a way to bring the world closer together and to help solve some of our greatest challenges.
Nonetheless, almost everyone has a favorite quote or two about the impact that technology has on our lives. Below are my 15 favorites.
1. Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born. - Alan Kay (Computer Scientist)
2. Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic. - Arthur C. Clarke (Author)
3. All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. - Mark Kennedy (Author)
4. Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. - Thomas Edison (Inventor)
5. It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein (Scientist)
6. Einstein worried that advancements in technology will exceed our humanity. (Image source: Oren Jack Turner via Wikipedia)
7. Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet. - Douglas Adams (Author)
8. Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. - R. Buckminster Fuller (Inventor and Author)
9. We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. - Douglas Adams (Author)
10. Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable. - Joseph Krutch (Writer)
11. This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. - Don DeLillo (Author)
12. The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. - Sydney Harris (Journalist)
13. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. - Omar Bradley (General, US Army)
14. The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. - John Lasseter (Director)
15. Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. - Arthur Schlesinger (Historian)
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