Technology Quotes

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

12000 quotes

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"The Internet's promise for deliberative democracy remains unrealized while dominated by market logic and surveillance."
Habermas, Jürgen
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"Technology is not merely instrumental; it shapes the very nature of our existence."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"Technology reveals what nature tried to conceal."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Technology is not merely a tool; it shapes our understanding of being itself."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Technology reveals being, but conceals much in the process."
Derrida, Jacques
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"In our technological age, we must be careful not to reduce all understanding to calculation and control."
Gadamer, Hans-Georg
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"Technology threatens understanding when it encourages us to believe that all problems are merely technical."
Gadamer, Hans-Georg
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"Technology is not neutral; it encodes the values of those who created it."
Foucault, Michel
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"Technology is not external to thought; it shapes what we can think."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"The digital cuts us loose from the anchors of presence and embodiment."
Derrida, Jacques
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"Technology is neither good nor evil; it is a tool that reflects human choices and intentions."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Technology is the embodiment of human ambition; it reveals both our creativity and our capacity for destruction."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Technology is a tool, not a master."
Popper, Karl
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"Technology is neutral; its value depends on human intention."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Technology amplifies both human virtues and vices."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Artificial intelligence and natural intelligence differ in implementation but not in principle."
Quine, Willard Van Orman
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"Technology extends our senses but does not change our nature."
Ayer, Alfred Jules
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"Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The most dangerous thing is the belief that we can become masters of technology."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Technology is a way of revealing."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Technology is a tool; wisdom is how we use it."
Popper, Karl
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"Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Technology reveals the world as a resource to be exploited."
Heidegger, Martin
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"We cannot escape the technological framework through technological means."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The essence of technology is nothing technological."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Technology is a way of revealing the world as standing reserve."
Heidegger, Martin
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"The essence of technology is revealing, not making."
Heidegger, Martin
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"Technology advances fastest when guided by logical precision and scientific method."
Carnap, Rudolf
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"You cannot solve human problems by technology and material progress alone."
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
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"Technology is a way of revealing that challenges forth nature, demanding that it supply energy for human use."
Heidegger, Martin