Technological Quotes

• Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Progress
  • Civilization
  • Criminal

• Every technological revolution takes about 50 years.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Revolution
  • Technological

• I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Economic
  • Policy
  • Republicans

• Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Change
  • Technological

• But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Will
  • Happen
  • Technological

• Technological defeatism - a belief that, since a given technology is here to stay, there's nothing we can do about it other than get on with it and simply adjust our norms - is a persistent feature of social thought about technology. We'll come to pay for it very dearly.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Technology
  • Belief
  • Technological

• Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • New
  • Anything
  • Technological

• Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • World
  • Skills
  • Technological

• When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Thinking
  • Technology
  • Technological

• Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Ignore
  • Behinds
  • Storytelling

• It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • War
  • Easy

• I don't know that I've ever bought anything online. I'm about 10 years behind the technological curve, I think.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Think
  • Know
  • Technological

• I'd like to build myself a rocket ship and launch myself into space. Still waiting on the technological advances required for a DIY space flight.

  

  Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
  • Waiting
  • Flight
  • Rockets

• Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?

  

  Gerard K. O'Neill
  • Civilization
  • Surface
  • Expanding

• We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Thinking
  • Creatures
  • Obvious

• With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Technology
  • Innovation
  • Advent

• When we first started Fear factory, we asked ourselves what Fear Factory means, it was a cool name, but what did it mean? We obviously embraced the technological side of a factory, as a factory can be anything from something that insights fear, like a government machine, to something of futuristic technology, or it could be religion. So we embraced the technological side of it back in the early days.

  

  Dino Cazares Asesino
  • Technology
  • Mean
  • Insight

• All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

  

  George Gilder
  • Risk
  • Return
  • Noise

• The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are asked to make become increasingly complex. They require the longer-term thinking and greater tolerance for ambiguity that science fosters. The new economy is predicated on a continuous pipeline of scientific and technological innovation. It can not exist without workers and consumers who are mathematically and scientifically literate.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Thinking
  • Science
  • Democracy

• David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Thinking
  • Illusion
  • Hops

• There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • War
  • Feels
  • Prisoner

• The technological overflow from scientific research has brought scientific research this bad name about carrying an irresponsibility and an alienation from God - because scientific research has led to things like the atom bomb, it's led to problems with depletion of ozone in the Earth's atmosphere, or at least it's revealed those problems.

  

  George Coyne
  • Earth
  • Problem
  • Atmosphere

• I think it is not an exaggeration to say that the realization of the importance of entanglement and the clarification of the quantum description of single objects have been at the root of a second quantum revolution, and that John Bell was its prophet. And it may well be that this once purely intellectual pursuit will also lead to a new technological revolution.

  

  Alain Aspect
  • Revolution
  • Technological
  • Quantum

• If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

  

  Michael Harrington
  • Social
  • Misery
  • Increase

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