Sayings about Technology
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.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.
Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?
God never made his work for man to mend.
It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.
As far as I’m concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.
I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us.
Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization.
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.