Great Technology Quotes:

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

- Isaac Asimov

source: "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Questions". Book edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281, 1988.

topic: Knowledge, Sadness, Science, Life Wisdom, Mathematics And Science

The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

- Robert Kiyosaki

topic: Past, Way, Study, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

- Alan Kay

topic: Worry, Way, Live By, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Memorable, Technology, Bicycle, Computer Technology

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

- Peter Drucker

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Young Entrepreneurs

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

- Arthur C. Clarke

source: Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.

topic: Science, Technology, Possible And Impossible, Information Technology, Awe And Wonder

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

source: "Beer, Boxers, Batteries, And Bodily Noises". Book by Stuart Kantor, p. 39, 2004.

topic: Airplane, Technology, Men, Modern Technology, Computer Technology

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

- Mitchell Kapor

topic: Technology, Fire, Information, Information Age, Information Technology

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Nature, Science, Men, Modern Technology, Technology And Education

Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.

- Jerome Wiesner

topic: Fire, Mit, Drink, Information Technology, Ict

In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable.

- Mark Nepo

source: Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

topic: Heart, Commitment, Cutting, Zoom, Replay

I don't think that VR is going to lead to humanity being enslaved in the matrix or letting the world crumble around us. I think it's going to end up being a great technology that brings closer people together, that allows for better communication, that reduces a lot of environmental waste that we're currently doing in the real world. It's probably not going to be nearly as interesting as depicted in science fiction as far as the bad things go.

- Palmer Luckey

topic: Real, Communication, Technology, Great Technology

Steve Jobs made the case to Xerox PARC execs directly that they had great technology but that Apple knew how to make it affordable enough to change the world. This was very open. In the end, Xerox got a large block of Apple stock for sharing the technology. That's not stealing outright.

- Steve Wozniak

topic: Jobs, Block, Technology, Xerox, Great Technology

I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology.

- Vinod Khosla

topic: Mean, Technology, Political, Techie, Great Technology

Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.

- Tim Burton

topic: Art, Creativity, Mean, Great Technology

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

- Walter Lippmann

topic: Flower, Technology, Inspire, Great Technology