Inner Wisdom Quotes

Quotes on Technology

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein Technology
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.
- James Gleick
James Gleick Technology
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
- Joseph Wood Krutch
Joseph Wood Krutch Technology
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
- Hal Abelson
Hal Abelson Technology
Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
- Max Frisch
Max Frisch Technology
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
- B. F. Skinner
B. F. Skinner Technology
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
- Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley Technology
So much technology, so little talent.
- Vernor Vinge
Vernor Vinge Technology
The great lesson in microeconomics is to discriminate between when technology is going to help you and when it's going to kill you.
- Charlie Munger
Charlie Munger Technology