Technology Quotes
From the printing press to AI, these quotes explore humanity's relationship with its own inventions.
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"Technology is the extension of human capacity; we must not mistake the extension for the original."Johann Tetens
"Technology is nothing but nature understood and applied."Julien Offray de La Mettrie
"Technology does not solve the fundamental economic problem of allocating scarce resources."Friedrich Hayek
"Technology is an extension of our perceptual faculties."George Berkeley
"Technology is humanity's attempt to extend its own capabilities."Julien Offray de La Mettrie
"Technology extends the body's reach; understanding extends the mind's reach."Julien Offray de La Mettrie
"Technology is merely a tool; it amplifies both human virtue and human vice."Johann Tetens
"Technology embodies human values and aspirations; examine what we create to understand who we are."Johann Tetens
"Technology, like fire, can either warm or consume us."Antonio Genovesi
"Technology extends human capability"Giovanni Vico
"Technology should serve the elevation of human understanding."George Berkeley
"Technology amplifies human nature—it makes the virtuous more virtuous, the vicious more vicious."Johann Tetens
"Technology is never merely neutral; it embodies the values of its creators."Johann Tetens
"Technology should serve humanity, not enslave it."Johann Herder
"Technology without humanity is hollow progress."Johann Herder
"Technology should serve humanity, not enslave it."Catharine Macaulay
"Technology should serve humanity, not master it."Hugo Grotius
"Technology accelerates progress."Hugo Grotius
"Technology is the application of reason to the material world."Christian Wolff
"Technology should serve humanity, not enslave it"Jean Bodin
"Technology amplifies both human virtue and vice"Jean Bodin
"Technology must serve humanity, not enslave it."Hugo Grotius
"Technology should serve human flourishing, not replace it."Johann Herder
"Technology divorced from ethics becomes an instrument of domination."Johann Herder
"Technology should serve humanity, not the reverse."Hugo Grotius
"Technology serves best when guided by wisdom and constrained by ethics."Jean Bodin
"Technology is merely crystallized reason applied to matter."Christian Wolff
"You can use the Internet to find out how many people share your obsessions."Johann Goethe
"Technology should serve humanity, not rule it."Moses Mendelssohn
"Technology amplifies both our wisdom and our folly."Moses Mendelssohn