Technology - Quotes & Sayings

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

Margaret Atwood

Take information technology. We have winners implementing CRM (customer relationship management systems) and losers implementing CRM. What mattered in technology is that the technology actually drives either cost reduction or superior strategy execution.

Tahl Raz

Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.

Simon Mainwaring

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

Shoshana Zuboff

The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.

Jack Ma

Advanced technology changes the way we work and the skills we need, but it also boosts productivity and creates new jobs.

Alain Dehaze

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

Tim O'Reilly

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

Jordan Peterson

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

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

Reed Hastings

Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.

Al Franken

Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.

Deepak Chopra

As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.

Peter Diamandis

My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture.

Gene Luen Yang

CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.

Heather Brooke

The amazing thing about IBM is that it's a company where I have had 10 different careers - local jobs, global jobs, technology jobs, industry jobs, financial services, insurance, start-ups, big scale. The network of talent around you is phenomenal.

Ginni Rometty

The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.

Martin Rees

Electronic medical records are, in a lot of ways, I think the aspect of technology that is going to revolutionize the way we deliver care. And it's not just that we will be able to collect information, it's that everyone involved in the healthcare enterprise will be able to use that information more effectively.

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.

Bob Iger

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

Simon Wiesenthal

We create the technology to connect the world. We are a large network company and not restricted to just the telecom space.

Rajeev Suri

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

We understand how to build and manage businesses that involve technology, engineering, and people at a large scale on a global platform.

Azim Premji

All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.

Tony Abbott

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

Scott Cook

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

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

The truth is that technology is only valuable if it helps you run your organization better.

Safra A. Catz

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

When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it.

Jack Dorsey

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

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

Steve Jobs

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

Maya Angelou

I'm good with digital technology, but I start to miss the physical world. I miss riding my bike, talking to friends.

Pranav Mistry

My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.

Elon Musk

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology.

Marshall McLuhan

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

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them.

Douglas Adams

Our generation grew up with technology. It evolved as we grew up. This new generation has had it since they were babies. That's crazy. It fundamentally changes they way they understand and think about technology. They've never known life without it, whereas we knew life without the Internet.

Brit Morin

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

Yoko Ono

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

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Marshall McLuhan

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

Larry Page

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

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Chris Toumazou

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

Tom Hodgkinson

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

Daniel H. Wilson

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

Wendell Berry

A satellite has no conscience.

Edward R. Murrow

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

Alan Watts