Quotes about Technology

One time, the teacher was the storehouse of knowledge. That will no longer be so. So what would a teacher do? A very good teacher will play the role of augmenter. Also, the teacher will be located anywhere and helping students.

This is a timely warning for those who live at the end of the age when digital devices provide information so quickly that thinking is no longer needed.

A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.

I wonder, said Miss Oliver, if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains much the same from age to age, no matter how it may vary in distribution, and that all the 'many inventions' neither lessen nor increase it.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

The solution of mankind's most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.

I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology.