3,132 Quotes About Technology

New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information.

Magical thinking underlies the I-don't-want-to-know-how-it-works-I-just-want-it-to-work view of technology. That may be a viable attitude for business people who don't want to take the time to understand their desktop computers, but it makes for a lethal combination when geeks and suits try to build businesses together.

As a CEO, how do you know you are investing in technology that supports productivity?

We are the prisoners of the mechanical orgy pursued inside the earth, for we have dug mines, underground galleries through which we sneak in a band beneath the cities that we want to blow up.

I was aware that I was taking inordinate pleasure in small, technological events and objects, and that this was probably a semiconscious tactic meant to evade confronting certain agonizing life events which were probably not resolvable and were destined to cause unrelenting pain and distress; yet the pleasure was real, and I took it greedily.

Beware! One day thy den will be exposed to all,For the man made bird has spread its wings,And thou shall kneel before the greedy animal race,Who will seize thy scepter and thy crown,To judge thy banishment or thy Death!

Unfortunately, human progress is generally determined not by our spiritual, our emotional, and our intellectual development but by that of our technologies.

May we recognise the species of trees before we learn the symbols of corporations, may we learn the songs of the birds before the top 40. May we touch hearts before we touch screens.

For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration.