Technology Quotes - page 76

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights. (Penn Jillette)
We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design. View quote
Edward de Bono
Coming generations will have to take account of this momentous transformation if humanity is not to destroy itself through the might of its own technology and science. View quote
Carl Jung
You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me. View quote
Christina Aguilera
The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it. View quote
Douglas Adams
Believe it or not, I'm a bit clumsy with technology. It's probably why I'm so excited about the touchscreen - even an idiot can use it! View quote
Björk
I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear. View quote
Nicolas Cage
I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it. View quote
Nicolas Cage
It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science. View quote
Charles III
American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn't have to hang up my diapers. And now women have paper diapers and all sorts of conveniences in the home. And it is the man and the technology that has made the home such a pleasant place for women to be. View quote
Phyllis Schlafly
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. (Arthur M. Schlesinger)
I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. View quote
Neil Postman
A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided. View quote
Neil Postman
Even when the problem of the access to technology is solved so that anyone who wishes can have access to technology, there still remains a problem. View quote
Neil Postman
The relationship between information and the mechanisms for its control is fairly simple to describe: Technology increases the available supply of information. ...control mechanisms are strained... View quote
Neil Postman
Technopoly is a state of culture... state of mind... the deification of technology, which means that the culture seeks its authorization in technology... its satisfactions... its orders... View quote
Neil Postman
Technological competition ignites total war, which means it is not possible to contain the effects of a new technology to a limited sphere of human activity... View quote
Neil Postman
I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects. View quote
Neil Postman
'Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I'm not entirely sure it's such a useful term, but I think that's what most people mean by it. View quote
Neil Postman
It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that. View quote
Neil Postman
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things. (Muhammad Yunus)
Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices - at any age - we are absorbed in someone else's perspective. View quote
Julia Cameron
Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are. View quote
Werner Herzog
Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions. View quote
Lech Wałęsa
Science, as opposed to technology, does violence to common sense. View quote
Richard Dawkins