Top 50 Technology Quotes
1. “Technology is best when it brings people together.” ― Matt Mullenweg
2. “The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” ― Karl Marx
3. “Our technology forces us to live mythically.” ― Marshall McLuhan
4. “I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
5. “Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.” ― Patti Smith
6. “We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.” ― Lawrence Clark Powell
7. “I might love my e-reader, but I’d never pass up the chance to browse real books.” ― Nichole Chase
8. “Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition, and myth frame our response.” ― Arthur Schlesinger
9. My life is now a constant assessment of whether what’s happening in real life is more entertaining than what’s happening on my phone.” ― Damien Fahey
10. “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” ― Douglas Adams
11. “Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet.” ― Douglas Adams
12. “Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid.” ― John Pfeiffer
13. “Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.” ― Dan Brown
14. “As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can’t kill someone and trade with him too.” ― Steven Pinker
15. “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
16. “We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are.” ― Jefferson Bethke
17. “Technology has solved old economic problems by giving us new psychological problems. The internet has not just open-sourced information, it has also open-sourced insecurity, self-doubt, and shame.” ― Mark Manson
18. “The technology you use impresses no one. The experience you create with it is everything.” — Sean Gerety
19. “Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.” ― R. Buckminster Fuller
20. “You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.” ― Walter Lippmann
21. “Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.” ― Andre Heller
22. “Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn’t easily do them legally.” ― Lawrence lessig
23. “Technology has to be invented or adopted.” ― Jared Diamond
24. “Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.” ― Freeman Dyson
25. “What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.” ― Frank W. Abagnale
26. “Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.” ― Sam Ewing
27. “Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.” ― Alan Watts
28. “Mankind soon will be forced to utilize a kind of technology that’s still rejected by current civilization.” ― Toba Beta
29. “Communication tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.” ― Clay Shirky
30. “People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” ― Alan Kay
31. “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” ― Pablo Picasso
32. “The human spirit must prevail over technology.” ― Albert Einstein
33. “Books don’t need batteries.” ― Nadine Gordimer
34. “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” ― Christian Lous Lange
35. “The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.” ― John Lasseter
36. “Technology like art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.” ― Daniel Bell
37. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic.” ― Arthur C. Clarke
38. “Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.” ― Barry Gehm
39. “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” ― Thomas Edison
40. “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” ― Albert Einstein
41. “Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.” ― Bill Gates
42. “Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.” ― Steve Jobs
43. “Cars will soon have the Internet on the dashboard. I worry that this will distract me from my texting.” ― Andy Borowitz
44. “I’d rather check my Facebook than face my checkbook.” ― Craig Coelho
45. “‘User’ is the word used by the computer professional when they mean ‘idiot.’” ― Dave Barry
46. “What did people do when they went to the bathroom before smartphones?” ― Aaron Cobra
47. “To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.” ― Paul Ehrlich
48. “Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.” ― Rollo May
49. “The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” ― B. F. Skinner
50. “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