Technology Quotes



      “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.”
– Christian Lous Lange

      “Technology is teaching us to be human again.”
- Simon Mainwaring

      “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
- Elbert Hubbard

     “All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.”
- Bill Watterson

      “Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet.”
- Douglas Adams

       “The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”
- Sydney J. Harris

       “Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.”
- Carrie Snow

     “Technology has to be invented or adopted.”
- Jared Diamond

       “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
- Douglas Adams

       "We're changing the world with technology."
- Bill Gates

       “Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”
- Max Frisch

       Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.
- Stewart Brand

       “Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.”
- Joseph Wood Krutch

       “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
- Albert Einstein


       “The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.”
- Northrop Frye

        “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
- Gertrude Stein

      “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
- Arthur C. Clarke


       “Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.”
- Alvin Toffler

      “Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.”
- Freeman Dyson

      "When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government."
- Alexander Chase


      "God never made his work for man to mend." 
- John Dryden

       "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." 
- Albert Einstein

       "If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees.  That'll do them in."
- Anonymous

       “For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.”
- Alice Kahn

       “It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.”
- Steve Jobs

       “Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.”
- Henry David Thoreau

      “I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.”
- Steve Jobs

       “The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.”
- William S. Burroughs

      “Our technology forces us to live mythically” 
- Marshall McLuhan

      “Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.” 
- Kevin Kelly

        “As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.” 
- Don DeLillo

      “Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
- Buckminster Fuller

      “Innovation only comes from making mistakes and learning.”
- Anonymous

      “Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.”
- Simon Mainwaring
      “Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.”
- Putt's Law

      “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
- Richard Feynman

     “Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.”
- Douglas Coupland

     “There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.”
- Billy Corgan

      “Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.”
- Alan Kay

      “Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.” 
- Laurie Anderson