Technology Quotes

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

12000 quotes

"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police."
Douglas Coupland
"Watching TV is like taking black spray paint to your third eye."
Douglas Coupland
"We are slaves to our brand names."
Douglas Coupland
"Privacy is gone and we just have to get over it."
Douglas Coupland
"The Internet is the most democratic medium ever invented."
Douglas Coupland
"Technology cannot replace human connection."
Carson McCullers
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"Language is a technology to transport thought."
Margaret Atwood
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"We are all cyborgs now."
Margaret Atwood
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"We're not drowning in information, we're drowning in noise."
Margaret Atwood
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"You can't create anything much worse than what you see on television."
Flannery O'Connor
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"Technology is a mirror reflecting our values and desires; it reveals rather than determines who we are."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Technology is advancing faster than wisdom; we need humanistic counterweight."
Joyce Carol Oates
"Technology is a tool, not a master"
Robertson Davies
"Technology is just a tool. It's how you use it that matters."
Cormac McCarthy
"Technology will never replace the human touch."
Cormac McCarthy
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"The technological age has increased our connection but diminished our depth."
Joyce Carol Oates
"The so-called 'paradox' of contemporary life is that we're more connected yet more isolated."
David Foster Wallace
"Technology is just another form of human vanity."
Cormac McCarthy
"Technology cannot replace the fundamental human need for presence."
Carson McCullers
"Technology is the tentacle of a mind that grasps at everything."
Cormac McCarthy
"Television is the biggest distraction from authentic experience."
David Foster Wallace
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"Technology will never replace the human mind; it will only amplify it."
Norman Mailer
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"Technology is changing the world faster than we can adapt."
Joseph Heller
"The so-called 'access' to the internet has become a kind of electronic heroin."
David Foster Wallace
"The entertainment industry is designed to make you feel inadequate."
David Foster Wallace
"Modern media creates the illusion of connection while deepening isolation."
David Foster Wallace
"Modern life is designed to fragment your attention into ever smaller pieces."
David Foster Wallace
"The human brain is not equipped to process the amount of information modern life demands."
David Foster Wallace
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"Technology promises to free us but often enslaves us instead."
Saul Bellow
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"Technology promises freedom but often delivers control."
Joseph Heller