Technology(116)

"Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs."
Esther Dyson

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

"Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build."
Larry Ellison

"The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing."
Douglas Engelbart

"I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity."
Brian Eno

"The Internet is like a giant jellyfish. You can't step on it. You can't go around it. You've got to get through it."
John Evans

"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
Richard P. Feynman

"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
Max Frisch

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