Quotes on Technology

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
~Max Frisch

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923

I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!
~Author Unknown

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
~Karl Marx

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
~B.F. Skinner, Contingencies of Reinforcement, 1969

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
~Carl Sagan

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
~Alfred North Whitehead

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
~Erich Fromm

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