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 More about this quote Tags: news rapid change politics technology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and religion. But it creates a great temptation. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: technology spirituality religion temptation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: technology knowledge science ignorace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. —Isaac Asimov More about this quote Tags: technology fear computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. —Max Frisch More about this quote Tags: technology experience universe protection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: technology influence culture computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: technology danger functionality computers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: technology privilege gratitude memory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: technology morality money fire Bible socialism monarchy pornography Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: technology understanding management Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: technology freedom democracy achievement America Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press 3. —Alice Kahn More about this quote Tags: technology life ease quality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. —Arthur C. Clarke More about this quote Tags: technology magic Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: technology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy. —Cory Doctorow More about this quote Tags: technology Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email