Technology Quotes

From the printing press to AI, these quotes explore humanity's relationship with its own inventions.

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"Technology amplifies human capability but does not determine human choice."
Paul Samuelson
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"Industrialization transformed not just economies but the very fabric of human life."
Simon Kuznets
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"Technology is not destiny; our choices determine how we use what we invent."
Kenneth Boulding
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"The technology we create shapes us as much as we shape it."
Kenneth Boulding
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"The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the less developed countries won't be direct but indirect, through revolution."
Milton Friedman
"Technology should serve humanity, not the reverse."
Irving Fisher
"Technology is a tool; the user determines whether it serves or enslaves."
Irving Fisher
"The truth is that all the characteristics of modern life depend upon them and would collapse within twenty-four hours if they stopped working."
Joseph Schumpeter
"Modern warfare is a contest of scientific achievement."
Thorstein Veblen
"The advent of machinery has fundamentally altered human society."
Thorstein Veblen
"The modern economy rests on the foundation of technology."
Thorstein Veblen
"The greatest economic advance has come from the invention of new tools."
Alfred Marshall
"Technology amplifies human nature; it does not transform it."
Vilfredo Pareto
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"Technological change creates opportunities, but without wisdom, it creates greater inequality."
Joan Robinson
"Technology should serve humanity, not enslave it."
Vilfredo Pareto
"Technology amplifies both human genius and human folly equally."
Joseph Schumpeter
"Technology is humanity's attempt to transcend its biological limitations."
Joseph Schumpeter
"The machine technology of the modern world is a most efficient engine for the accumulation of wealth and the perpetuation of privilege."
Thorstein Veblen
"The development of technology has outpaced the development of human institutions."
Thorstein Veblen
"Technological advancement creates ever-greater distances between human needs and economic organization."
Thorstein Veblen
"The machine is the matrix of modern thought and social organization."
Thorstein Veblen
"Innovation comes not from perfecting what exists, but from questioning why it must be so."
Alfred Marshall
"Technology is neither good nor evil; its moral character depends on the hands that wield it."
Alfred Marshall
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"Technological change is neither predetermined nor neutral; it reflects choices about power and distribution."
Joan Robinson
"The correlation between innovation and economic growth is absolute."
Irving Fisher
"Technology should serve humanity; it should never become its master."
Irving Fisher
"Technology that increases human capability is always beneficial in the long run."
Irving Fisher
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"Technology should serve human virtue, not replace it."
Thomas Malthus
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"The most important ways in which I think the internet will affect the core of my work on the m-pesa and in the future."
Milton Friedman
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"I think the internet changes nothing in principle but everything in practice."
Milton Friedman