The prestige of the news is founded on the unstated assumption that our lives are forever poised on the verge of critical transformation thanks to the two driving forces of modern history: politics and technology.
—Alain de Botton in Religion for Atheists
Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and religion. But it creates a great temptation.
—Thomas Merton
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
—Carl Sagan
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
—Isaac Asimov
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
—Max Frisch
Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music.
—Marcus Brigstocke
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
—Jef Raskin
May we remember, as we log on, that half the world's people have never used a telephone, and recall, as we chatter, that most of those around us have no chance to speak or move as they choose. May we recall that more than half a million beings live without food, and that as many children live amidst poverty and war.
—Pico Iyer
Money is like fire, an element as little troubled by moralizing as earth, air, and water. Men can employ it as a tool, or they can dance around it as if it were the incarnation of a god. Money votes socialist or monarchist, finds a profit in pornography or translations from the Bible, commissions Rembrandt and underwrites the technology of Auschwitz. It acquires its meaning from the uses to which it is put.
—Lewis H. Lapham
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
I just don't know why they're shooting at us. All we want to do is bring them democracy and white bread. Transplant the American Dream. Freedom. Achievement. Hyperacidity. Affluence. Flatulence. Technology. Tension. The inalienable right to an early coronary sitting at your desk while plotting to stab your boss in the back.
—Alan Alda as Hawkeye on M*A*S*H
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press 3.
—Alice Kahn
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C. Clarke
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
—Bernard Baruch
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.
—Cory Doctorow