Technology Quotes

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Even with all our technology and the inventions that make mo

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

Life Nature Technology Mercy Earth

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human h

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

Success Technology History Risks

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Future Technology Love Ai

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal

We're in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that so

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Technology Science Possibility Magic Impossibility

Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, sc

Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the hands of the experts.

Sheldon Rampton

Technology Science Democracy

The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which the

The High-Intelligence Life Forms of the planet, of which there were at least three species, all of low technological achievement, they would ignore or enslave or extirpate, whichever was most convenient. For to an aggressive people only technology mattered.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Life Technology People Intelligence

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads ine

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

Charles C. Mann

To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss th

To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.

Harry M. Collins

Truth War Technology Science Lie

A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legiti

A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites that promote illegally sourced content.

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material t

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside.

Life Money Truth Technology Society Materialism Consumerism Insightful Humankind Self Discovery Modernity Elven Charm Cyberpunk

The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans

The Internet's been so great, and it's so nice to have fans do nice, elaborate websites, but I think the downside is some of the things... for real fans to go on and see that 90 percent of the information isn't true or to see pictures that aren't really me, or for them to be able to sell these things, that's one of the downsides, I think.

Denise Richards

Technology Science

The rise of the welfare state, on the one hand, and of the m

The rise of the welfare state, on the one hand, and of the military bureaucracy, on the other, are instances of the manner in which technology is enforcing a socialization of life.

Robert Heilbroner

Life Technology Manners

The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfe

The bullying powers use different excuses to prevent transfer of science and technology and progress of the nations of our region.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Power Technology Science Progress Nations

I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have

I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain anymore. It's like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. It's always got to be tactile, still organic.

Science is universal. Technology must be local.

Science is universal. Technology must be local.

Technology Science

The technology is really where all of the changes have taken

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

We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and tec

We live in a society absolutely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. That's a clear prescription for disaster.

Technology Science Society Disaster

But my view is that you need a system at the border. You nee

But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.

Janet Napolitano

It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our hu

It is appallingly obvious our technology has exceeded our humanity

Albert Einstein