Technology Quotes

• "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
• "Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." -- Aldous Huxley
• "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 Fitzgerald Kennedy
• "While modern technology has given people powerful new communication tools, it apparently can do nothing to alter the fact that many people have nothing useful to say.-- Leo Gomes
• "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done." -- Andy Rooney
• "Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death." -- Ayn Rand
• "Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other." -- C. P. Snow
• "If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee--that will do them in." -- Bradley's Bromide
• "The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers." -- Jamais Cascio 1995
• "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
• "If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside." -- Robert Cringely
• "I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer."
  -- Dave Barry 1994
• "The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T." -- Scott McNealy
• "In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it." -- Anonymous
• "Never let a computer know you're in a hurry." -- Anonymous