Bell Work Quotes and Activities

Having some form of bell-work activity for classes that use computers is always a good idea. Bell-work activities help prevent students from getting off task before the start of your class by giving them something productive to do as all of the other students arrive. It is also a good way to introduce a hook to get students thinking about the topic for a given lessen even before you introduce the lesson itself. Finally, bell-work activities are a great way to introduce literacy mandates into any content area.

The best way to use quotes for a bell-work activity is to find a quote that relates to the topic that you will be teaching and then have students respond to that quote based on a question prompt, or to respond to another students comment in a respectful way. An example of how you can use quotes to engage students in a digital discussion before the stat of class is shown below.

If you want to use these famous technology quotes to introduce an aspect of literacy while also exploring their place in society you may also want to download the complete list of quotes.

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Quotes About Technology

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
~Bill Gates

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
~Steve Ballmer

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
~B. F. Skinner

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
~Andrew Brown

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

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
~Bill Gates

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
~Gertrude Stein

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
~Arthur C. Clarke

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
~George Lucas

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.
~Robin S. Sharma

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

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

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

~John F. Kennedy

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
~Elbert Hubbard

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
~Jean Arp

Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
~Carrie Snow

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn’t help us know what to say.
~Jonathan Sacks

Men have become the tools of their tools.
~Henry David Thoreau

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

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.
~Dennis Gabor

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
~Thomas Sowell

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing… you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn’t affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
~Jimmy Carter

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

We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
~Carl Sagan

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
~Alan Kay

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
~Oscar Wilde

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

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

You affect the world by what you browse.
~Tim Berners-Lee

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
~Tim Berners-Lee

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
~Alan Perlis

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

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
~Clive James

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

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don’t trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
~John Cusack

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
~Frank Lloyd Wright

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
~John Stuart Mill

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
~Fred Allen

These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than ‘able-bodied’ folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.
~Daniel H. Wilson

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

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
~Edward R. Murrow

Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
~Dave Barry

Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.
~Laurence J. Peter

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
~Pope Paul VI

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
~Arnold H. Glasow

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.
~Stephen Hawking

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
~Ambrose Bierce

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

~Alfred North Whitehead

The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.~William Gibson

It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
~William Gibson

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

I have an almost religious zeal… not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
~Dan Millman

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
~Andy Grove

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
~John Perry Barlow

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it’s too expensive to change the interface.
~Jaron Lanier

Broadband access is the great equalizer, levelling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.
~Michael K. Powell

The great thing that guys like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it’s art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.
~Harvey Weinstein

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away… it was already here. I just wasn’t aware of it yet.
~Bruce Sterling

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.
~Reed Hundt

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
~Esther Dyson

Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we’re still at the mercy of nature.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

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

Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
~Steven Spielberg

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.
~Steve Jobs

Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.
~Gretchen Rubin

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.
~John Lasseter

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
~Carl Sagan

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.
~Philip Zimbardo

Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.
~Philip Green

Whether it’s watching a $4,000 laptop fall off the conveyor belt at airport security, contending with a software conflict that corrupted your file management system, or begging your family to stop opening those virus-carrying ‘greeting cards’ attached to emails, all computer owners are highly leveraged and highly vulnerable technology investors.
~Douglas Rushkoff

Since the founding of Facebook, Twitter, Istagram and other mainstays of what technology writers have come to call ‘the social Web’ or ‘Web 2.0,’ a sizeable portion of humanity has learned to be together while apart, sacrificing intimacy for control and spontaneity for predictability.
~Walter Kirn

The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
~Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
~Bill Gates

Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment – and more – by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens.

~Jesse Ventura

Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone – the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it’s sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.
~Zachary Levi

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.
~Stewart Brand

As we grow up in more technology-enriched environments filled with laptops and smart phones, technology is not just becoming a part of our daily lives – it’s becoming a part of each and every one of us.
~Adora Svitak

Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you’re trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, ‘You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.’
~Bill Burr

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
~Steven Pressfield

In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
~Queen Rania of Jordan

I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it’s very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates – much lower than their competitors.
~Najib Razak

Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers – poets, actors, journalists – they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don’t fight science and they don’t fight technology.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.
~Nina Garcia

I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
~Harmony Korine

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.
~Charles E. Wilson

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
~Lyndon B. Johnson

Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It’s not like we’re working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy.
~Brian Greene

There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.
~Robert Nelson

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.
~Ray Kurzweil

The new information technology… Internet and e-mail… have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.
~Peter Drucker

Everywhere, the rate of change is so fast that large U.S. companies are in constant danger of disruption. Not from competition in China or India, no. They’re in danger of being made obsolete from two guys/gals in a garage in Silicon Valley, or anyone, anywhere, empowered by exponential technology, willing to risk it all, driven by their passion.
~Peter Diamandis

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
~Arthur M. Schlesinger

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we’re bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we’re good people we use it for good purposes.
~Herbert Simon

In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn’t work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They’re relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.
~Tim Burton

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
~Bill Gates

We speak of ‘software eating the world,’ ‘the Internet of Things,’ and we massify ‘data’ by declaring it ‘Big.’ But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It’s hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the ‘real world’ of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home.
~John Battelle

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study – you can get a degree in robotics – and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people’s minds.
~Daniel H. Wilson

I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
~Dalai Lama

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It’s supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.
~Tracy Chapman

All art is dependent on technology because it’s a human endeavour, so even when you’re using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that’s technology.
~George Lucas

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
~Jackie Chan

I go and see anything that’s visually new, any technology that’s about picture-making. The technology won’t make the pictures different, but someone using it will.
~David Hockney

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
~Jaron Lanier

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.
~John Doolittle

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.
~Gabe Newell

A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.
~Kevin Mitnick

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.
~Christian Lous Lange

Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook – not even a telephone call – can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.
~Marlo Thomas

Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.
~Richard Stallman

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

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you’re not constantly moving forward, then – without a doubt – you’re moving backwards.
~Bill Owens

NAFTA recognizes the reality of today’s economy – globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
~John F. Kerry

An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.
~Elon Musk

We can’t blame the technology when we make mistakes.
~Tim Berners-Lee

Technology is permeating every single thing we do… And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we’re planning for the future.
~Marc Morial

Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it.
~Satya Nadella

In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.
~David Gerrold

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, ‘That was the Internet Age.’ And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.
~Reed Hastings

I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.
~Jerry Zucker

Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that’s O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.~Scott Adams

Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn’t mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you’re addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn’t available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It’s a habit like all habits.
~Margaret Atwood

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology.
~Bruce Schneier

Ever since the arrival of printing – thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people’s minds – people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.
~David Crystal

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
~Reed Hastings

I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.
~Laura Marling

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body’s new membrane of existence.
~Nam June Paik

Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.
~Timothy Garton Ash

Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra… The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs.
~Michael J. Saylor

The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
~Wendell Berry

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.
~Evgeny Morozov

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.
~Howard Rheingold

The only constant in the technology industry is change.
~Marc Benioff

If you had a really good – battery, it wouldn’t matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
~Nathan Myhrvold

There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organized if we are to reap the rewards.
~Geoff Mulgan

We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
~Major Owens

Not everything that happens in an in-person classroom is currently replicated with an online course, and perhaps the experience will never be the quite the same. But there are new opportunities that online learning opens up that would have never been possible without this technology.
~Daphne Koller

The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn’t originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now.
~John Katzman

The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.
~John Glenn

The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don’t get the innovation unless you integrate Web technology into the processes by which you run your business.
~Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

What is design? It’s where you stand with a foot in two worlds – the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes – and you try to bring the two together.
~Mitchell Kapor

Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That’s because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.
~Nolan Bushnell

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

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.
~Bill Gates

The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen.
~Geoff Mulgan

Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We’re fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn’t going to die down.
~Reggie Watts

Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don’t use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.
~Rick Pitino

Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions – the objects in museums are real. It’s a way to get away from the overload of digital technology.
~Thomas P. Campbell

It is the child’s understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They’re still doing it today with modern technology.
~Michael Morpurgo

Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That’s why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.
~Robert Reich

I’m fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology.
~Richard Dawkins

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.
~Sarah McLachlan

There’s no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there’s no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics.
~Benjamin Carson

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand – even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
~David Copperfield

We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that’s large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can’t solve.
~Naveen Jain

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
~John von Neumann

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.
~Thomas Friedman

In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology.
~Shimon Peres

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.
~Glen Hansard

If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people – be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes.
~Anita Borg

I think we are living in selfish times. I’m the first one to say that I’m the most selfish. We live in the so-called ‘first world,’ and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.
~Javier Bardem

Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you’d better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this.
~Neil deGrasse Tyson

You don’t have to be young to learn about technology. You have to feel young.
~Vint Cerf

Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response – that is, high touch – or the technology is rejected… We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.
~John Naisbitt

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.
~Gordon Moore

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.
~Joseph Rotblat

I want to see what technology’s going to be like in a few hundred years, if the human race hasn’t completely obliterated itself by then.
~Janina Gavankar

Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
~Bill Gates

Software substitution, whether it’s for drivers or waiters or nurses – it’s progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set.
~Bill Gates

It’s amazing how much information is coming at us most of the time through technology, the media and the busyness of the world around us. I’ve decided that the world probably isn’t going to change, so I have to change. I’m learning how to keep my mind on what I’m doing, rather than thinking about several things at once or what I want to do next.
~Joyce Meyer

I’ve always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.
~Deepak Chopra

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.
~William S. Burroughs

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It’s just always all in the way you use it. So there’s no – you can’t really blame anything on the technology. It’s just the way people use it, and it always has been.
~Steve Martin

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn’t take a break from you.
~Douglas Coupland

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
~Marshall McLuhan

Aliens didn’t come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.
~Douglas Coupland

Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow.
~Margaret Atwood

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.
~Alvin Toffler

When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day – you can’t prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended.
~Douglas Coupland

Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else’s thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person’s vantage point.
~Steven Pinker

It’s hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don’t think it’s necessarily broader or smarter.
~Robert Redford

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.
~Margaret Atwood

Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950.
~Michio Kaku

I don’t hate technology, I don’t hate hackers, because that’s just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn’t solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.
~Fred Durst

Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively.
~Frank Abagnale

You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.
~Marissa Mayer

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.
~Thor Heyerdahl

If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong.
~James Surowiecki

Technology teaches passivity. Absorbed in our devices – at any age – we are absorbed in someone else’s perspective.
~Julia Cameron

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it’s always about what are you going to do next.
~Marissa Mayer

We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we’ve got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet and live good lives. What we haven’t done is developed our technology.
~David Attenborough

Readers probably haven’t heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.
~Michael Crichton

I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.
~Kevin Mitnick

What I found personally to be true was that it’s easier to manipulate people rather than technology.
~Kevin Mitnick

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it’s all in the story.
~Robert Redford

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.
~Michael Porter

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.
~Rupert Murdoch

Today’s stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies.
~Marc Andreessen

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.
~Freeman Dyson

I won’t compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.
~Lewis Thomas

I am much less concerned with whatever it is technology may be doing to people that what people are choosing to do to one another through technology. Facebook’s reduction of people to predictively modeled profiles and investment banking’s convolution of the marketplace into an algorithmic battleground were not the choices of machines.
~Douglas Rushkoff

Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on.
~Douglas Rushkoff

If Apple’s a technology company in the music industry, why can’t somebody in the music industry make technology?
~Will.i.am

As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.
~Ryan Holmes

It might sound like I’m a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn’t evolved is mankind’s spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking.
~Damian Marley

Half of Google’s revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.
~Eric Schmidt

A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.
~Evgeny Morozov

We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good.
~Robert Winston

Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.
~F. Sionil Jose

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity’s most enduring legacies.
~Ibrahim Babangida

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.
~Tom Clancy

I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you’re frightened of is to make fun of it. That’s why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.
~Iain Banks

We already have – thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work – enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don’t have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
~Zygmunt Bauman

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.
~Simon Wiesenthal

I’m a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I’m a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.
~Martin Rees

But, in each case, as a filmmaker who’s been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.
~Christopher Nolan

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.
~Simon Wiesenthal

Technology is best when it brings people together.
~Matt Mullenweg

When I first got into technology I didn’t really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.
~Matt Mullenweg

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it – often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.
~Daniel H. Wilson

For the last 10 years, I’ve felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I’ve never understood why. It’s cheaper to work on film, it’s far better looking, it’s the technology that’s been known and understood for a hundred years, and it’s extremely reliable.
~Christopher Nolan

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man’s command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.
~Cordell Hull

Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America’s political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind.
~Malcolm Turnbull

With communication technology in general, there’s a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world’s entire population using one communication technology, that’s a big deal. It’s beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it’s a fad have probably not been paying that much attention.
~Ben Horowitz

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
~Daniel Bell

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that’s just the price of being first sometimes.
~Hugh Grant

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.
~Diane Sawyer

With Internet technology you can capture a photo, a quote, or an article, store it locally and upload it into the Net more than once, if you wish, to multiple sites. Can you imagine then forcing the search engines to somehow not index that information?
~Vint Cerf

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.
~John Sununu

I’ve been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I’ve been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.
~Ann Druyan

Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.
~Gordon Brown

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
~Harry Seidler

With all the technology we’re inventing and what they’re coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It’s scary, but in the same sense it’s also very exciting.
~Brittany Murphy

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.
~Dean Kamen

IBM’s long-standing mantra is ‘Think.’ What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
~Ginni Rometty

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.
~Ralph Merkle

New technology is useful, but it’s inefficient and ugly; it knows it’ll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.
~Tom Holt

Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you’re trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it.
~Martin Parr

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we’re so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.
~Dean Kamen

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.
~Tony Kushner

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.
~Neil Postman

Technology is us. There is no separation. It’s a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn’t exist anywhere else in the universe. I’m rather sure of that.
~David Cronenberg

I’m not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.
~Shashi Tharoor

What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can’t imagine until you come up with the idea. It’s idea-based. You can do anything.
~Robert Rodriguez

We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.
~Sebastian Thrun

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don’t expect the world that we’re familiar with to be perfect.
~Esther Dyson

I don’t know if I’ve owned a piece of technology that I hated – I don’t think I would have owned it then.
~Amber Heard

The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.
~John Legend

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.
~Mireille Guiliano

I enjoy privacy. I think it’s nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I’d like to preserve some of that.
~Maggie Q

Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don’t always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time.
~Paul Allen

I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.
~Mickey Hart

I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We’ve invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I’m generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.
~Sebastian Thrun

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era – it’s a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

~Clement Mok

Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle.
~Eliezer Yudkowsky

I really believe that we don’t have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.
~John Poindexter

I’m a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.
~Hal Sparks

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.
~Bob Ney

I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you and I are analog creatures. We have to take ‘oohs and aahs’ and convert them to 0s and 1s and then convert them back to ‘oohs and aahs.’ Narratives that work in social networks are the exchange of stories that are told well.
~Peter Guber

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.
~Robert Trout

We are in an electronic technology age now and it’s about time we put away the old stuff.
~Monica Edwards

I don’t know about you, but all this modern technology that’s supposed to save us time and effort has actually ended up making things more complicated in my life, eating up extra time.
~Dean Karnazes

I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.
~Jack Dorsey

With technology you can now be your own record company, director, producer, etc. If you have talent, you can display it on the Internet and the world will tell you their thoughts in the matter of seconds!
~Romeo Miller

Technology, and applications of this technology, will continue to improve and evolve, providing unprecedented, global access to information, individuals, training, and opportunities.
~Maynard Webb

I’m not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger – and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
~J. I. Packer

Today we all are enjoying the fruits of the digital era. Millions of sources of information coming at us at lightning fast speed. That technology has also democratized the gathering and dissemination of news, allowing for ‘citizen journalists’ to make their mark, even usurping the role of mainstream news organizations at times.
~Lester Holt

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
~Carlos Slim

It’s important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren’t the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it’d be wrong to think that they’re automatically bad.
~James Gleick

I’ve always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I’m not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.
~Aaron Koblin

Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it’s had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn’t use it as an excuse to reject our tools; rather, we should decide that we need to make better tools to solve the problems caused by the initial tools in a progressive wave of innovation.
~Jason Silva

I love using the latest technologies to make life more efficient, but I don’t want to advocate that technology replaces the need to get together and enjoy human connections with people.
~Maynard Webb

We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It’s also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.
~Roy Romer

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.
~Eric Allman

Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.
~Erik Brynjolfsson

In my mind I needed a symbol of today’s technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that’s where Places of Power came into being.
~John Sexton

I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology… The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.
~Robert Darnton

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we’ve unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.
~Richard D. Zanuck

Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn’t that after all the definition of marriage?
~Howard Stringer

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.
~Kevin Richardson

Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.
~Jennifer Egan

As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we’re seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create.
~Jason Silva

I like looking at a future where we’re expanding our creativity and brightening our lives. I believe that eventually we’ll get to a point where we’ll be able to live indefinitely through our technology.
~Steve Aoki

Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are.
~Sherry Turkle

I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make it easier for more people to have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I’m very good at interpreting the information.
~Jim Cramer

Technology is a nerdy field. That’s why I called myself a ‘geek.’ It requires a lot of training and encouragement at a very young age.
~Weili Dai

Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.
~Beth Simone Noveck

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.
~Aleksander Kwasniewski

It’s not accidental that products get worse over time; it’s because companies stop paying attention to them. They stop caring as much about maintaining the same quality they did when they were just trying to fight for survival and no one would pay attention unless they had the best technology.
~Aaron Levie

The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it’s the reverse.
~Rodney Stark

I don’t think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic consequences. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology.
~Neil Postman

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don’t know their neighbors, I don’t think that technology is at fault. You don’t lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.
~John Warnock

It’s been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There’s no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible.
~Max Walker

I love sharing photographs and websites, I’m for all of these things. I’m for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows.
~Sherry Turkle

Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we’re putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they’re 40 years old.
~Amy Klobuchar

As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.
~Judy Biggert

A feeling I got from working at Google was that technology could solve any problem. Yes, it’s fantastic, but what I realized later was there’s technology, and there’s people. Google had its list ordered: Technology. People. And I think the right order is: People. Technology.

~Biz Stone

There’s evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.

~Mark Rydell

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them – the ‘physical book,’ a new phrase in our language – is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

~Art Spiegelman

Pretty soon we’ll have robots in our society, you’re going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people – this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.
~Jose Padilha

Technology is the fashion of the ’90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it – either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.
~Jay Chiat

If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveller or simply serve to worsen social divisions.
~Anita Borg

I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There’s no denying that through technology there are amazing things being created that help people with diseases or help people’s dreams come true. But there’s also this obsession. Social media is the most dangerous of them all.
~Amanda Crew

Dropbox looks really simple to the end user and is extremely magical and just works. But under the hood, the complexity of the technology is huge. The amount of work it requires to store, scale and move this data is pretty intense.
~Ruchi Sanghvi

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
~Bill Griffith

For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as ‘the device formerly known as the cell phone.’ I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!
~Padmasree Warrior

I think technology is us, not something we invented. I think we are more psychic now because we have cell phones and you can look and see who’s calling you. When people start seeing technology as us, as humanity, our whole idea of what existence is, is going to shift.
~Ryan Trecartin

There’s been resistance to every new technology that’s ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn’t stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful.
~Jeremy Stoppelman

I think the future of this planet depends on humans, not technology, and we already have the knowledge – we’re kind of at the endgame with knowledge. But we’re nowhere near the endgame when it comes to our perception. We still have one foot in the dark ages.
~Graham Hawkes

What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is the individual; we shouldn’t kid ourselves.
~John W. Thompson

Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras making production less cumbersome. Social media is allowing self-distribution, and girl groups like Spark Summit are leading the way in calling for fewer Photoshop image alterations of girls in print media.
~Sharon Lawrence

Once you change the technology – from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm – you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it’s very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.
~Jonas Mekas

I love the romance of the ’40s. It was the perfect time to live. Technology wasn’t so advanced that it made life more difficult, but it was just enough that you can send a phone call or a telegram. And people still took pride in how they looked. The men got dressed up and the women got dressed up and they took care of themselves.
~Bethany Joy Lenz

Even though I’m totally dependent on modern electronic gizmos, from my laptop to my iPod to my cell phone, I love to embrace old technology or no technology at all.
~John Grogan

To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.
~Beth Simone Noveck

From now on, the technology companies that succeed will be those that have developed skills at listening and a sophisticated understanding of their customers’ industries.
~Samuel J. Palmisano

The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective.
~John Katzman

When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you’ll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
~Cameron Sinclair

I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, ‘You can’t. People won’t have anything to do.’ But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor in the sun and the fields. Let people rise to better things.
~Rodney Brooks

It’s hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn’t yet been duplicated by technology.
~Paul Graham

I’m known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way that it streamlines the process and takes a lot of the drudgery out of it.
~Dave Gibbons

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
~K. Eric Drexler

I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There’ll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there’ll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.
~Brian Lamb

People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we’re not reading, and in fact we’re not really communicating, either. We’re not talking to each other. There’s just all these screens and wires and technology in between.
~Lee Smith

I don’t try to show off technology in my work. The technology is a means to tell stories, so I think conversations about my work can be had by very large audiences.
~Marco Tempest

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
~Laura Esquivel

My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets – it’s about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology.
~Honor Harger

Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.
~Joe McNally

I can be the most skilled person in the world, but if everyone else at my firm lacks skills, my employer is going to find it more difficult to introduce new technology, new production techniques. So as a result, my employer is going to be less productive. They will not be able to afford to pay me as good wages.
~Timothy J. Bartik

Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.
~Diane Duane

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.
~Godfrey Reggio

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they’ll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.
~Jim Hunt

The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.
~Steve Jobs

Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with ‘The Jazz Singer’ or the first colour or surround sound – it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it.
~John Lasseter

Really in technology, it’s about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.
~Marissa Mayer

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want – and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.
~Sloane Crosley

Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.
~Scott Turow

The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn’t on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.
~Juno Temple

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
~Bill Gates

If we’re building high quality companies, if the customers like the products, if the technology innovation is real, then the substance is going to win out in the end.
~Marc Andreessen

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.
~Robert Kiyosaki

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.
~Dolly Parton

Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it’s popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they’ll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.
~Steven Spielberg

As connected as we are with technology, it’s also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.
~Sandra Bullock

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.
~George Lucas

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable of doing things that aren’t historical that nobody had ever thought of doing before.
~Brian Eno

When you’ve done the technical part, you’re then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You’re then into the mystery of the thing you’re doing.
~William Shatner

There’s nothing wrong with technology. It’s when technology is the story and not the artist, that’s the problem.
~Billy Corgan

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.
~Howard Schultz

I love technology, and I don’t think it’s something that should divide along gender lines.
~Marissa Mayer

The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms.
~Ashton Kutcher

I wouldn’t say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.
~Ashton Kutcher

You’d think that in this age, especially in the 21st century – especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we’ve made – that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.
~Tori Amos

The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
~Gail Sheehy

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.
~Carly Fiorina

Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art.
~John Lasseter

If you run from technology, it will chase you.
~Robert M. Pirsig

Let’s hope brands recognize that the true power of this technology is not its reach but its ability to communicate substance that adds meaning to our lives. Otherwise, brands will be investing in technology that consumers simply won’t buy.
~Simon Mainwaring

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
~Tadao Ando

We’re getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.
~Lenny Kravitz

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.
~Arthur Erickson

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
~James Dyson

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.
~Freeman Thomas

We need to make sure that there’s art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn’t in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn’t get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.
~LL Cool J

Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today’s 3D movies.
~Ridley Scott

I don’t believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it’s so outdated.
~Michael Bloomberg

Because of technology today, we expect kids to stay in touch with us too much. I think that’s unnatural. We really do have to give kids their freedom and allow them to go off and become adults.
~Andie MacDowell

Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don’t behave very well when they are afraid.
~Daniel H. Wilson

There is an enormous market demand for information. It just has to be fulfilled in a way that fits with the technology of our times.
~Marc Andreessen

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
~James Dyson

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.
~Judith Martin

Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won’t accept.
~Jesse Eisenberg

Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.z
~Max Frisch

Regardless of what the naysayers believe about human interaction and social media, the data show us that the abundance of technology is actually increasing the abundance of happiness all over the world.
~Peter Diamandis

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.
~Evgeny Morozov

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.
~John Naisbitt

The human condition today is better than it’s ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.
~Tom Clancy

I think we live in delusional times, whether it’s with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life.
~Michael Leunig

Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite.
~Michael Leunig

The millennials were raised in a cocoon, their anxious parents afraid to let them go out in the park to play. So should we be surprised that they learned to leverage technology to build community, tweeting and texting and friending while their elders were still dialing long-distance?
~Nancy Gibbs

While technology is important, it’s what we do with it that truly matters.
~Muhammad Yunus

Originally, technology was pretty clearly on the side of introversion. It allowed introverts to connect with people, to express their ideas in a less stimulating way: you’re sitting alone behind a computer. But I’m starting to think that the pressure to self-present constantly online is becoming so extreme.
~Susan Cain

Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next – the sharp scissors, the car keys – this is one they understand better than we do.
~Nancy Gibbs

We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.
~will.i.am

Now, I know it’s a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It’s an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is also shaped equally by history and culture. China is not like the West, and it will not become like the West.
~Martin Jacques

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it’s not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.
~Evgeny Morozov

Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they’re not going to teach each other about the history of democracy, or the importance of taking their voices into the public sphere to create social change.
~Howard Rheingold