3,132 Quotes About Technology

Soon became convinced I was right and undertook the task with all the fire and boundless confidence of youth.

The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.

We're not hunter-gatherers anymore. We're all living like patients in the intensive care unit of a hospital. What keeps us alive isn't bravery, or athleticism, or any of those other skills that were valuable in a caveman society. It's our ability to master complex technological skills. It is our ability to be nerds. We need to breed nerds.

La ciencia encarna el deseo humano de entender la naturaleza; la tecnología conjuga ese deseo con la ambición de controlarla.

We shouldn't automatically accept that natural is better, nor should we automatically presume that we can improve on nature. It's up to us to decide which qualities we value, and what's the best way to achieve those.

It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.