3,132 Quotes About Technology

I'm tired of trying to do something worthwhile for the human race, they simply don't want to change!

These people were the first to master a new kind of late twentieth-century life. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never disappointed.

A day will come when certain antiques and old homes will be able to play sounds and voices of our past like record players. Technology will scan the grooves embedded within them as mediums can do without it.

Hollywood movies, however, have brainwashed us into thinking that we can defeat the alien invaders if they are a few decades or centuries ahead of us in technology. Hollywood assumes that we can win by using some primitive, clever trick. In Independence Day, all we have to do is inject a simple computer virus into their operating system to bring them to their knees, as if the aliens use Microsoft Windows.

Sometimes a solution gets rid of at most one problem, but causes, comes with, or leads to at least two problems.

The most important and unpredictable side of technology will always be ... human.

Again, for the record, let me restate: you can't be rude to a coffee grinder and only an idiot would thank it for pulverizing beans.But you could, and probably should, unplug it if it doesn't shut up.

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

I want to see you not through the machine,' said Kuno. 'I want to speak to you not through the wearisome machine.