Technology Quotes

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

12000 quotes

J
"The machine was only as smart as the people programming it."
Jean Jennings Bartik
J
"The computer age was just beginning."
Jean Jennings Bartik
R
"Technology should enhance human connection, not replace it."
Ralph Baer
R
"Good technology serves humanity; great technology serves humanity with joy."
Ralph Baer
"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform."
Ada Lovelace
"What is the Analytical Engine? It is the embodiment of the operations which man can conceive."
Ada Lovelace
S
"In display technology, we must remember that we are not just building screens—we are building windows to human experience."
Shunpei Yamazaki
S
"The best technology is technology that you forget you are using."
Shunpei Yamazaki
S
"Technology should be a mirror that helps us see ourselves more clearly."
Shunpei Yamazaki
S
"The future of technology is not about faster or more powerful—it is about more humane."
Shunpei Yamazaki
D
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Donna Dubinsky
D
"Technology should enhance humanity, not replace it."
Donna Dubinsky
N
"Technology should enhance human creativity, not replace it."
Nolan Bushnell
N
"Technology is not the answer; people are."
Nolan Bushnell
N
"Technology serves humanity best when it's human-centered."
Nolan Bushnell
C
"Technology is best when it brings people together."
Carver Mead
J
"The continued rapid development of computing machinery will make it possible, in a not too distant future, to construct automata of ever-increasing logical depth and ever-increasing number of logical elements."
John von Neumann
J
"There is a possibility that the machine could be made so intelligent that it would be able to correct its own errors."
John von Neumann
J
"If you say why not construct a very powerful computing machine that, by all the logical processes of arithmetic and reasoning, arrives at its own conclusions, you've arrived at the concept of a computer."
John von Neumann
J
"The speed of evolution of mankind cannot indefinitely keep pace with the speed of evolution of computers."
John von Neumann
J
"Technology is not something you adopt, it is something you apply."
John von Neumann
J
"The digital computer has already made us realize some of the ambitions that our generation had about automata."
John von Neumann
J
"Anything that can be described can be programmed."
John von Neumann
J
"I think computers would be absolutely essential for anybody who is trying to do anything interesting."
John von Neumann
J
"Any sufficient advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
John von Neumann
J
"One might informally describe the general character of such a machine as follows."
John von Neumann
R
"The best inventions come from solving real problems that people actually face."
Ralph Baer
J
"The machine doesn't care if you're a woman or a man. It just wants the right answer."
Jean Jennings Bartik
J
"Technology amplifies human nature - both good and bad."
Jean Jennings Bartik
J
"Technology should serve humanity, not the reverse."
Jean Jennings Bartik