Technology Quotes
From the printing press to AI, these quotes explore humanity's relationship with its own inventions.
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"Technology is powerful; wisdom lies in knowing when not to use it."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Machines encumber us. We are in danger of becoming the servants of our servants."Russell, Bertrand
"Technology is not inherently good or evil; it is the use we make of it that determines its character."Arendt, Hannah
"In the age of mass production, even thoughts have become standardized."Arendt, Hannah
"Technology distances us from the very things it connects us to."Blanchot, Maurice
"Industrial society creates the illusion of understanding while preventing actual thought."Weil, Simone
"Technology is a tool that amplifies human intention, both good and ill."Moore, George Edward
"Technology is neutral; its impact depends entirely on how we choose to use it."Moore, George Edward
"Technology is a tool; what matters is the wisdom with which we employ it."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Technology cannot bridge the distance between consciousnesses."Blanchot, Maurice
"Technology extends human reach while diminishing human presence."Blanchot, Maurice
"Technology promises to free us but often enslaves us to new necessities."Arendt, Hannah
"Technology is the objectification of desire."Bataille, Georges
"Technology reflects the human will to power over nature."Rosenzweig, Franz
"Technology embeds ideology."Althusser, Louis
"Technology amplifies our reach while diminishing our presence."Blanchot, Maurice
"The more technological we become, the more we risk losing the Thou."Buber, Martin
"The technological age represents the final triumph of reason over life."Bataille, Georges
"Technology promises liberation while it perfects our enslavement."Bataille, Georges
"Technology must be servant to humanity, not master."Gramsci, Antonio
"Technology amplifies both human potential and human suffering."Lukács, György
"You feel in your bones that something is cosmically unfair about broadcasting purpose-made data to zillions of people simultaneously."Russell, Bertrand
"There is no great invention, from fire to electricity, that has not been hailed as an insult to some god."Russell, Bertrand
"Culture industry produces standardized goods for mass consumption."Marcuse, Herbert
"Innovation serves power, not liberation."Marcuse, Herbert
"Technology is always an expression of social interests."Marcuse, Herbert
"Innovation is the ritual of modernity—we sacrifice yesterday to worship tomorrow."Bataille, Georges
"The more the machinery of thought asserts itself, the more does thinking become reified, a fixed operation, the more does it insist on its equivalence to the machine."Horkheimer, Max
"Technology has become the ideology of the age."Horkheimer, Max
"Technology is not neutral but embodies the will to dominate."Horkheimer, Max