Old Technology Quotes:

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Witty, Humorous, Information Technology, Mobile Technology

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

- Stewart Brand

source: The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT ch. 1 (1987)

topic: Technology, Over You, New Technology, Information Technology, Modern Technology

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Mean, Technology, Progress, Technological Advancement, Old Technology

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

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

- Laurie Anderson

topic: Technology, Stories, Campfire, Old Technology

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: "Working Profile; Helping the Library of Congress Fulfill Its Mission" by Barbara Gamarekian, archive.nytimes.com. July 8, 1983.

topic: Fun, Knowledge, Science, Information Knowledge, Information Technology

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

- Omar N. Bradley

source: "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.

topic: Military, Technology, May, Information Technology, Mobile Technology

You affect the world by what you browse.

- Tim Berners-Lee

topic: Technology, World, Old Technology

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

- Marshall McLuhan

topic: Technology, Media, Age, Old Technology, Automation

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

- Freeman Dyson

topic: Life, Mother, Art, Old Technology, Greatest Gifts

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Black And White, Technology, Color, Old Technology, New Technology

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

- Max Frisch

source: Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Wisdom, Science, Technology, Old Technology, Digital Technology

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

topic: Past, Technology, Thinking, New Skills, Old Technology

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Technology, Religion, Computer Science, Old Technology

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.

- Jason Hirschhorn

topic: Technology, Years, Going Away, Old Technology

So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.

- Douglas Coupland

source: Source: www.macleans.ca

topic: Technology, Information, Way, Old Technology

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

- Richard P. Feynman

topic: Inspirational, Successful, Science, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Challenger

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

- Niklas Zennstrom

topic: Technology, Phones, Years, Old Technology, Charging

The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation.

- Freeman Dyson

source: "Infinite in All Directions: Gifford lectures given at Aberdeen" by Freeman Dyson, (p. 270), 2004.

topic: Country, Science, Technology, South Korea, Microchips

It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

- Dean Wareham

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Technology, Scary, Musician, Strange Times, Old Technology