Technology Quotes

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

12000 quotes

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"The semiconductor industry taught me that progress is about understanding the fundamental rules of your domain."
Carver Mead
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"We must learn to see technology not as separate from nature, but as nature expressing itself in new ways."
Carver Mead
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"The brain and the computer are beginning to speak the same language, and that conversation will transform everything."
Carver Mead
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"The real power of computers won't be realized until we stop trying to make them think like us and start learning to think like they do."
Carver Mead
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"Every technology we create is a mirror held up to our own biology, showing us how we work."
Carver Mead
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"Technology is best when it brings people together."
Gordon Moore
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"Technology is a tool, not a master."
Gordon Moore
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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
Steve Wozniak
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"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
Steve Wozniak
S
"I was a hacker before the term even existed."
Steve Wozniak
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"The computer is a tool that amplifies human capability, but it cannot replace human judgment."
Jean Jennings Bartik
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"My work was a conversation between human intelligence and machine capability."
Jean Jennings Bartik
J
"A large computation cannot be carried out in any fixed space of time."
John von Neumann
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"We must distinguish between what is computable in principle and what is practical."
John von Neumann
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"Technology amplifies both human capability and human tendency toward error."
John von Neumann
J
"A machine that can learn is fundamentally different from a machine that merely computes."
John von Neumann
J
"We create systems to understand nature, but the systems often take on a life of their own."
John von Neumann
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"Technology should serve humanity, not the other way around."
Donna Dubinsky
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"Technology advances. Humanity must advance with it."
Donna Dubinsky
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"Technology moves so fast that standing still means falling backward."
Andy Grove
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"Technology is a tool; human judgment remains irreplaceable."
Andy Grove
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"We are witnessing a revolution in how information flows through society."
Carver Mead
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"Technology should amplify human potential, not replace it."
Carver Mead
C
"We are at the intersection of biology and electronics—this is where the future lives."
Carver Mead
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"The most important technology is the one between your ears."
Carver Mead
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"The most revolutionary technologies are those that seemed inevitable in hindsight."
Carver Mead
C
"Technology is an extension of human capability; we must choose what to extend carefully."
Carver Mead
"The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves."
Ada Lovelace
"The day may come when the whole of applied science is reduced to the perfection of machinery by the principle of mathematics."
Ada Lovelace
"The thinking principle, if I understand correctly, may be made to appear and work in a machine as well as it appears in the human mind."
Ada Lovelace