I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!AnonymousTraditional attribution
Technology Quotes and Sayings
Short selections recovered from GADEL’s original collection. Wording is kept as found; the archived attribution is not a verification of authorship.
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.R. Buckminster FullerAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.John TudorAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.B.F. Skinner,Attributed in the original GADEL collection
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog.Warren G. BennisAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.Havelock EllisAttributed in the original GADEL collection
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.Carl SaganAttributed in the original GADEL collection
We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action, of the machine we have created to serve us.John Kenneth GalbraithAttributed in the original GADEL collection
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it – whether it be a factory or a government.Alexander ChaseAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.Isaac AsimovAttributed in the original GADEL collection
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.E.F. SchumacherAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?Al BoliskaAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.Aldous HuxleyAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.Steve WozniakAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.Arthur C. ClarkeAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?T.S. ElliotAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.Gertrude SteinAttributed in the original GADEL collection
Original collection & source
Original title: Technology Quotes and Sayings
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