Technology Quotes

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

12000 quotes

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