Technology Quotes

"The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom."

Jon Stewart

"Technology is teaching us to be human again."

Simon Mainwaring

"We need to stop interrupting what people are interested in and be what people are interested in."

Craig Davis

"The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button."

Volker Grassmuck

"Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us."

Jason Silva

"Our technology forces us to live mythically."

Marshall McLuhan

"Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is."

Robert M. Pirsig

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."

B. F. Skinner

"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."

Alan Turing

"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today."

Isaac Asimov

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform."

"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology."

Bruce Schneier

"Amateurs hack systems, professionals hack people."

Bruce Schneier

"Passwords are like underwear: don't let people see it, change it very often, and you shouldn't share it with strangers."

Chris Pirillo

"Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun."

Pete Cashmore

"The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting."

Dave Barry

"I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"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

"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do."

Steve Ballmer

"The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do."

Marc Andreessen

"Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris."

Larry Wall

"It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow."

Craig Bruce

"Technology should improve your life, not become your life."

Billy Cox

"Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future."

Kathleen Norris

"Robots are not going to replace humans, they are going to make their jobs much more humane."

Sabine Hauert