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Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. -- Albert Einstein
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. -- Aldous Huxley
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. -- Alvin Toffler
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
Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change. -- Muhammad Yunus
The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society. -- Mike Fitzpatrick
Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities. -- Leon Kass
The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation. -- Marshall McLuhan
Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake. -- George Friedman
Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves. -- Jamais Cascio
There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life. -- Rene Dubos
Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it. -- A.C. Grayling
My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy -- Marc Andreessen
Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science. -- Carl Sagan
During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. -- Bernard Baruch
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. -- Albert Einstein
Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt. -- Jacque Fresco
History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses. -- John Eliot
A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that -- Dan Gable
The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences. -- Lewis Mumford
It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy. -- Terence McKenna
The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably our separation from the practical and enriching sense of ourselves as embodied beings. When we are alienated from the wisdom of the body, our lives become theoretical and abstract, and we are distanced from the direct, felt sense of living. -- Richard Strozzi-Heckler
The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. -- Theodore Kaczynski
Technological advances have always been driven more by a mind-set of 'I can' than 'I should' Technologists love to cram maximum functionality into their products. That's 'I can' thinking, which is driven by peer competition and market forces But this approach ignores the far more important question of how the consumer will actually use the device focus on what we should be doing, not just what we can. -- John Maeda
Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change. -- C. L. R. James
Can our Society meet the Challenge of a Technological Future? -- Aharon Katzir
Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about. -- John Badham
Technological change is beneficial only when other jobs replace the ones lost. -- Robert Kuttner
Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives. -- Kevin Kelly
Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade. -- Robert Kuttner
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. -- Kenzo Tange
Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer. -- Clare Boothe Luce
Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions -- Jerry Mander
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. -- Pope Paul VI
Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it. -- Lewis M. Branscomb
Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism. -- David Harvey
Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next. -- Howard Rheingold
Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will. -- John von Neumann
Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility. -- Vaclav Havel
We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war. -- William J. Perry
We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war. -- William J. Perry
Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices. -- James Surowiecki
Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins. -- Jack McDevitt
Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion. -- Fran Lebowitz
Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it. -- Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes. -- Jason Epstein
We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning. -- Diane Ackerman
Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which society and nature, mind and body are kept in a state of permanent mobilization for the defense of this universe. -- Herbert Marcuse
Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodesassumptions about the nature of our reality, the "pattern" in which we dwell, and lays open new choices. -- Shoshana Zuboff
Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system -- Charles A. Beard
Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability. -- Frank Whittle
Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. -- Jacques Ellul
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery. -- Michael Harrington
In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. -- Marshall McLuhan
We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity. -- Akio Morita
Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress. -- Kim Campbell
Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess. -- David Suzuki
Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing. -- Ron Chernow
As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'. -- Sam Brownback
The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant. -- Kim Jong-un
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. -- Lawrence Clark Powell
The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. -- Kim Il-sung
Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial abundance. From the 1920s to the 1950s, neon-lit streets pulsed with visual excitement from Vancouver to Miami. -- Virginia Postrel
It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us. -- William J. Clinton
Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution. -- Martin Filler
Iran's goal is not to become another North Korea - a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community - but rather Brazil or Japan, a technological powerhouse with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons if the political winds were to shift, while remaining a nonnuclear weapons state. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change. -- Charlie Munger
What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture. -- David Gerrold
We need to know who's in the United States. We need to know everyone who's in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren't. To accomplish that, we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol. -- Rudy Giuliani
Ancient miracles are technological wonders. -- Toba Beta
Nature is technological relic of ancient civilizations. -- Toba Beta
Bitcoin is a technological tour de force -- Bill Gates
Twitter is more a cultural than a technological change. -- Chris Sacca
The human brain is the god of technological innovation. -- Terence McKenna
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will. -- Vernor Vinge
You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way. -- Colin Greenwood
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological. -- Martin Heidegger
This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics. -- Jerry Garcia
Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates. -- Andy Hargreaves
Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure. -- James C. Collins
In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing. -- Elliott Abrams
I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances. -- Louis C. K.
The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological. -- Wendell Berry
The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life. -- Alex Comfort
Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient. -- Paul Virilio
We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness. -- Doris Janzen Longacre
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The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is. -- Bruce Schneier
Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. -- George Carlin
Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience. -- Mitch Kapor
Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter. -- Marshall McLuhan
Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers. -- Maya Angelou
For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core. -- Clayton Christensen
For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core. -- Clayton Christensen
Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world. -- Dennis Hastert
Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. -- Vernor Vinge
Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. -- Wynton Marsalis
Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return. -- Newton Lee
The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement. -- Roger Zelazny
I'm a technological moron. I have, I have problems with like.. the television -- Natalie
Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process. -- Peter Dicken
Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property. -- John Roos
What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity. -- Toni Cade Bambara
Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner. -- Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj
I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation. -- Jay Samit
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained. -- David Harvey
The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. -- Peter Singer
It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution. -- Henry Petroski
Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort -- Albert Einstein
It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud. -- Bruce Sterling
Game design isn't just a technological craft. It's a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading. -- Jane McGonigal
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. -- Arthur C. Clarke
The National is the most advanced package of technological wonders yet assembled under one roof. -- Jack Kroll
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight. -- Neil Armstrong
The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work. -- Fareed Zakaria

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