Technology Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old technology quotes, technology sayings, and technology proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Jacques Ellul
Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media. George Lucas
As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create. Jason Silva
Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. Emily Greene Balch
We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes. Tim Berners-Lee
As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action. Shoshana Zuboff
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. Alan W. Watts
Our technology forces us to live mythically. Marshall McLuhan
As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive. Don DeLillo
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. Archibald Putt
The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body. William S. Burroughs
For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes. Hugh Grant
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. Frank Lloyd Wright
Technology - with all its promise and potential - has gotten so far beyond human control that its threatening the future of humankind. Kim J. Vicente
Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally. Lawrence Lessig
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life. Bill Gates
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else. Tom Holt
Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be. John Phillips
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of do it yourself. Marshall McLuhan
Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively. Frank Abagnale