Technology Quotes

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

12000 quotes

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"Innovation happens at the margins, not the center."
Ahmed, Sara
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"We are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we are cyborgs."
Haraway, Donna
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"I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess."
Haraway, Donna
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"We cannot live with or without cyborgs."
Haraway, Donna
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"We must reckon with our technological inheritances."
Haraway, Donna
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"The cyborg is a creature in a post-gender world."
Haraway, Donna
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"The question is not whether we are cyborgs, but how we live well with them."
Haraway, Donna
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"Technology is not determined; it is contingent and political."
Haraway, Donna
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"Virtual spaces are no less real in their effects than physical ones."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The virtual and the actual are not opposed but complementary."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The virtual is as real as the actual in its effects."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Technology is not neutral; it shapes and reflects our values."
Mol, Annemarie
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"The virtual and the actual are not opposites but complementary modes of existence."
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"We are always already cyborgs, and that's not necessarily a bad thing."
Haraway, Donna
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"Technology and nature are co-produced, not separate."
Haraway, Donna
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"Technology amplifies both our capacity for connection and our capacity for harm."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Technology is never neutral; it always has effects that ripple through the world."
Ahmed, Sara
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"We are always already entangled with technology, nature, and others—there is no pure human outside these relations."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Technology is not opposed to nature but is a way of being in relation with the world."
Braidotti, Rosi
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"Technology accelerates change, but wisdom must guide its application."
Law, John
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"Technology is neither savior nor demon; it amplifies human intention."
Law, John
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"The virtual is as real as the actual in shaping our existence"
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The virtual and actual are not opposed but mutually constitutive"
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"The virtual is real in its effects and potentialities"
Grosz, Elizabeth
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"Technology connects us, but intimacy requires us to slow down."
Ahmed, Sara
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"Technology is neither good nor bad; it amplifies what we already are."
Ahmed, Sara
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"The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion."
Haraway, Donna
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"Technology is neither salvation nor damnation; it is a site of contest and reconstruction."
Haraway, Donna
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"We are all cyborgs now; the question is what kinds of cyborgs we want to become."
Haraway, Donna
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"Technology is society made durable."
Callon, Michel