Technology Quotes

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

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"Technology is a tool that amplifies both our virtues and vices."
Joseph Heller
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"Technology tends to give us more and more ways to communicate with each other, but less and less to say."
Norman Mailer
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"Technology is extension of man's will, but not his wisdom."
Norman Mailer
"I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."
William S. Burroughs
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"There is nothing here now but psychic circuitry."
William S. Burroughs
"Television is the anti-drug."
David Foster Wallace
"The modern world traffics in distraction."
David Foster Wallace
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"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
Saul Bellow
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"Technology doesn't solve problems; it creates new ones."
Joseph Heller
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"Technology is a tool; the question is what we build with it."
Joseph Heller
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"The technology of our time is nothing more than our nervous systems."
Norman Mailer
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"Everything is connected in this vast digital web."
William S. Burroughs
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"Television men who speak in tubes"
Allen Ginsberg
"One of the few good things about modern times: if there is something we want to know, we can find out, pronto."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"I think that one day the world will have a chain of little radio stations."
Jack Kerouac
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"Technology promises to free us but often enslaves us."
Joseph Heller
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"Language is a virus from outer space."
William S. Burroughs
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"The future of writing is visual."
William S. Burroughs
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"Technology promises connection but often delivers isolation."
Norman Mailer
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"Technology is a mirror that reflects our values back to us."
Norman Mailer
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"I've been studying how people use language to warp reality"
Allen Ginsberg
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"Every word is a spell cast upon reality"
Allen Ginsberg
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"A modern communications system is nothing but a tool for extending the reach of power."
William S. Burroughs
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"Technology is merely an extension of human will."
William S. Burroughs
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"Technology should serve humanity, not the reverse."
William Carlos Williams
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"The technology of the future won't save us if we lose our souls."
Jack Kerouac
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"The seeds of technology are sown in human dreams."
Hart Crane
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"Technology is merely a tool of human will."
Hart Crane
"I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as paintings of the Bible on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel."
Kurt Vonnegut