Technology Quotes
From the printing press to AI, these quotes explore humanity's relationship with its own inventions.
12000 quotes
"Modern technique has become a means of uprooting."Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"Technology is not neutral—it embodies the intentions of those who design and deploy it."Ernst Bloch
"Technology can either liberate or enslave depending on who controls it."Herbert Marcuse
"Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it."Martin Heidegger
"Technology is a way of revealing the world."Martin Heidegger
"The essence of modern technology lies in enframing."Martin Heidegger
"Technology threatens what it promises to reveal."Martin Heidegger
"Technology promises freedom but delivers new forms of bondage."Walter Benjamin
"Technology extends consciousness but never replaces the immediate encounter with being."Edmund Husserl
"We live in an age where immediacy is constantly mediated by abstract forces."Georg Lukács
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."Alfred North Whitehead
"Technological rationality without moral purpose leads to barbarism."Herbert Marcuse
"Technology promises liberation but delivers new forms of control."Herbert Marcuse
"Technology is a mode of revealing."Martin Heidegger
"The danger of technology lies in man's tendency to regard it as ultimate."Martin Heidegger
"The essence of technology is not technological."Martin Heidegger
"Technology threatens to reduce all things to resources for exploitation."Martin Heidegger
"The technological worldview threatens the very possibility of authentic dwelling."Martin Heidegger
"Technology mediates but does not determine our relationship with the world."Maurice Merleau-Ponty
"The nature of technology is nothing technological."Walter Benjamin
"Technology is neither good nor bad."Paul Feyerabend
"Technology amplifies human nature."Paul Feyerabend
"One massive myth that characterizes our age is that the human mind functions like a logical machine."Alfred North Whitehead
"The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention."Alfred North Whitehead
"The modern world has achieved a degree of technical power which exceeds anything available to previous ages."Alfred North Whitehead
"Technology is a tool, not a master."Karl Popper
"The internet could be a very positive force for humanity, but only if we develop it correctly."Noam Chomsky
"Technology is a tool; how we use it matters profoundly."Noam Chomsky
"The instruments we invent shape the nature we discover."Thomas Kuhn
"What we cannot see with the instruments at hand, we cannot discover."Thomas Kuhn