51 Thought-Provoking Technology Quotes

“The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.” – Bill Gates

“Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.” – Steve Jobs

“The technology you use impresses no one. The experience you create with it is everything.” – Sean Gerety

“Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.” – Laurie Anderson

“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” – Christian Lous Lange

“Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet.” – Douglas Adams

“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.” – Max Frisch

“Technology is a tool, in terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, such as a bit of a catalyst.” – Dan Spencer

“Technology is the enemy of intimacy and the enemy of meditation.” – Jaron Lanier

“Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet.” – Douglas Adams

“Technology is not just a tool, it’s a cultural force, a framework for society.” – Peter Cochrane

“Technology is an enabler, not a substitute for human ingenuity.” – Anonymous

“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.” – Max Frisch

“Technology is the enemy of intimacy and the enemy of meditation.” – Jaron Lanier

“Technology is the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment.” – Unknown

“Technology like art is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.” – Daniel Bell

“The human spirit must prevail over technology.” ― Albert Einstein

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.” ― Karl Marx

“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” ― Christian Lous Lange

Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born. – Alan Kay 

Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic. – Arthur C. Clarke 

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. – Mark Kennedy 

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. – Thomas Edison 

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. – Albert Einstein 

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. – Elbert Hubbard 

Technology is a word that describes something that doesn’t work yet. – Douglas Adams 

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. – R. Buckminster Fuller 

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. – Kurt Vonnegut 

The human spirit must prevail over technology. – Albert Einstein 

The great myth of our times is that technology is communication. – Libby Larsen 

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers. – Walter Lippmann 

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. – Douglas Adams 

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable. – Joseph Krutch 

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. – Don DeLillo 

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. – Sydney Harris 

“Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.” – Steve Jobs

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

“Life was much easier when Apple and Blackberry were just fruits.”

“This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.” – Guy Debord

“First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure.” – Douglas Adams

“Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.” – Dan Brown

“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.” – Stewart Brand

“As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away and so do we.” – Julie Kagawa

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” – Elbert Hubbard

“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane until we invented smartphones and social media.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.” – Bill Gates

“As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways of thinking, always questioning their understanding of the world. Going back to old ways, old technology is forbidden. There in no past, no present, only an endless future of inadequacy” – Richard Kadrey

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.” – Albert Einstein

“Technology has solved old economic problems by giving us new psychological problems. The internet has not just open-sourced information, it has also open-sourced insecurity, self-doubt, and shame.” – Mark Manson

“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” – Omar Bradley

“There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me’.” – Philip K. Dick