1. Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. - Bill Gates
2. The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. - Marshall McLuhan
3. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. - Bill Gates
4. We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. - Carl Sagan
5. You affect the world by what you browse. - Tim Berners-Lee
6. Men have become the tools of their tools. - Henry David Thoreau
7. The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. - Oscar Wilde
8. The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. - John F. Kennedy
9. Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. - Stephen Hawking
10. All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. - Carl Sagan
11. The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. - Thomas Sowell
12. The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
13. It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Unknown
14. Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. - Aldous Huxley
15. My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there. - Elon Musk
16. An asteroid or a super volcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us. - Elon Musk
17. I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category. - Jeff Bezos
18. If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. - Frank Lloyd Wright
19. Mechanization best serves mediocrity. - Frank Lloyd Wright
20. For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. - Richard P. Feynman
21. One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. - Elbert Hubbard
22. Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. - R. Buckminster Fuller
23. I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. - R. Buckminster Fuller
24. Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. - Ambrose Bierce
25. Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. - Ambrose Bierce
26. The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. - Demetri Martin
27. The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. - B. F. Skinner
28. Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. - Freeman Dyson
29. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
30. Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. - Arthur C. Clarke
31. It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. - John Stuart Mill
32. Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. - Andy Rooney
33. Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. - Dave Barry
34. The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. - Dave Barry
35. The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want. - George Lucas
36. Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world. - Jimmy Carter
37. Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week. - Tom Hanks
38. People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans. - Ralph Nader
39. Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. - Gertrude Stein
40. Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. - Linus Torvalds
41. The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it. - Linus Torvalds
42. What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. - Arnold H. Glasow
43. Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. - Tim Berners-Lee
44. The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. - Tim Berners-Lee
45. The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. - Tim Berners-Lee
46. A satellite has no conscience. - Edward R. Murrow
47. The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. - Edward R. Murrow
48. Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say. - Jonathan Sacks
49. Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face. - Jonathan Sacks
50. It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. - William Gibson
51. Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. - William Gibson
52. The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. - William Gibson
53. Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force to an immovable object. - Laurence J. Peter
54. Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity. - Robin S. Sharma
55. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. - Alfred North Whitehead
56. Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. - Andy Grove
57. Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line. - Andy Grove
58. Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. - Graham Greene
59. YouTube is akin to having my own network. - Marlee Matlin
60. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. - Omar N. Bradley
61. Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. - Theodor W. Adorno
62. Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. - Fred Allen
63. I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen. - John Cusack
64. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. - Alvin Toffler
65. Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. - Pope Paul VI
66. The internet is a great way to get on the net. - Bob Dole
67. I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. - Dan Millman
68. Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin
69. The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay
70. People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. - Alan Kay
71. Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer. - Jeff Bridges
72. The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. - Clifford Stoll
73. 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. Schumacher
74. The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. - Steve Ballmer
75. I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. - Jaron Lanier
76. Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone. - Jaron Lanier
77. Technology has to be invented or adopted. - Jared Diamond
78. Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. - Mitch Kapor
79. Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. - Max Frisch
80. We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution. - Scott Cook
81. I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it. - Alan Perlis
82. In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. - Alan Perlis
83. For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift. - Wernher von Braun
84. It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online. - Esther Dyson
85. To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something. - Marc Andreessen
86. Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. - Mary Pickford
87. It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. - Clive James
88. What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good. - Meg Whitman
89. I don't mind if somebody texts me but I'm not a big texter, the things are too small. I don't mind if they text, '7 o'clock,' that's fine, that's logistics but, 'What's up?' Get real! Pick up a phone! - Penny Marshall
90. Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. - Larry Wall
91. Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. - Larry Wall
92. I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great. - Larry Wall
93. What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done. - Tim O'Reilly
94. Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle. - James Surowiecki
95. Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring. - Jesse James Garrett
96. The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. - Andrew Brown
97. Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. - Orrin Hatch
98. We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data. - Reed Hundt
99. Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. - Carrie Snow
100. Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were
to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production. - Ralph Merkle
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