Technology Quotations
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Michael Dell
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| Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation...tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. |
| - Jean Arp |
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| The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. |
| - Isaac Asimov |
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| I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind! |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. |
| - Ambrose Bierce |
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| Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? |
| - Al Boliska |
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| It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times. |
| - Pearl S. Buck |
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| Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. |
| - Arthur C. Clarke |
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| I think a lot of people initially thought that the 'e' in e-business was more important than the business. |
| - Michael Dell |
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| Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships. |
| - Michael Dell |
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| From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things. |
| - Michael Dell |
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| The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants. |
| - Michael Dell |
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| It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. |
| - Albert Einstein |
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| It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome. |
| - T.S. Eliot |
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| The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men. |
| - Havelock Ellis |
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| For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. |
| - Richard P. Feynman |
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| Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. |
| - Max Frisch |
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| Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines. |
| - Erich Fromm |
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| Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. |
| - R. Buckminster Fuller |
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| The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. |
| - Dennis Gabor |
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| The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems. |
| - John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us. |
| - John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. |
| - Arnold Glasow |
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| Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor. |
| - Ellen Goodman |
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| Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. |
| - Eric Hoffer |
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| One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. |
| - Elbert Hubbard |
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| Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. |
| - Aldous Huxley |
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| I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. |
| - John F. Kennedy |
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| You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. |
| - Walter Lippmann |
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| The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. |
| - Karl Marx |
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| It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. |
| - John Stuart Mill |
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| Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences. |
| - Lewis Mumford |
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| Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is. |
| - Robert M. Pirsig |
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| We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. |
| - Carl Sagan |
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| We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. |
| - Carl Sagan |
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| The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. |
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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| This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it. |
| - Jonas Salk |
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| I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs. |
| - E.F. Schumacher |
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| The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. |
| - E.F. Schumacher |
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| The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. |
| - B.F. Skinner |
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| Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. |
| - C.P. Snow |
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| Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking. |
| - Alfred North Whitehead |
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| If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. |
| - Frank Lloyd Wright |
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