Famous Technology Quotes - Famous Quotes about Technology
Any product cut to length will be too short.
- Klipstein's Observation
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Clarke's Third Law
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.
- Edward Abbey
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If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
- Michael Harrington
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If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today.
- John Sculley
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In comparison with the industrial age, the information era is at the steam engine stage. By the time information systems reach jet-plane status, we will focus on utility over fads, triple our productivity, use our computers as naturally and easily as we now use our cars...
- Michael L. Dertouzos
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In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
- Edward Abbey
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It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein
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Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
- Pope Paul VI
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The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
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The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.
- Dennis Gabor
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There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling, and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
- Georges Pompidou
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Tolerances will accumulate unidirectionally toward maximum difficulty of assembly.
- Klipstein's Law
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