3,132 Quotes About Technology

Advanced civilizations are recognizable by their elevated contributions to humanity, not by unjustly exploited material technological manifestations.

There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.

The Luddite impulse is strong among Christians, and our first reaction is to rage against the machine.

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

In his fight against the powers of the surrounding world his first weapon was magic, the first forerunner of our modern technology. We suppose that this confidence in magic is derived from the over-estimation of the individual’s own intellectual operations, from the belief in the ‘omnipotence of thoughts’, which, incidentally, we come across again in our obsessional neurotics.

You sure you won’t get lost?”I pulled my phone out of my pocket. “GPS,” I said. “No one ever gets lost anymore.

A world without glass would strike at the foundation of modern progress: the extended lifespans that come from understanding the cell, the virus, and the bacterium; the genetic knowledge of what makes us human; the astronomer's knowledge of our place in the universe. No material on Earth mattered more to those conceptual breakthroughs than glass.

If we don't understand our tools, then there is a danger we will become the tool of our tools. We think of ourselves as Google's customers, but really we're its products.

It’s our power to invent that makes me hopeful