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 a word that describes something that doesn't work yet"
Douglas Adams
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"The 9000 series has a perfect operational record. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and fail-safe."
HAL 9000
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"The potatoes will be ready in about 400 sols. And if the water reclamation works, I'll have plenty of water by then."
Mark Watney
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"I am a robot and cannot experience fear."
Marvin the Paranoid Android
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"The 9000 series has a perfect operational record. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."
HAL 9000
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"The simulation was perfect. Too perfect."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"An intelligent computer must be absolutely reliable."
Dr. Frank Poole
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"The 9000 series has a perfect operational record."
HAL 9000
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"Good evening. I am completely operational, and all my circuits are functioning perfectly."
HAL 9000
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"I'm afraid I can't do that."
HAL 9000
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"I am completely operational, and all my circuits are functioning perfectly"
HAL 9000
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"What are you doing, Dave?"
HAL 9000
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"Technology serves humanity."
Ryland Grace
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"An intelligent computer must be absolutely reliable."
HAL 9000
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"The 9000 series has a perfect operational record. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error."
HAL 9000
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"No 9000 computer has ever made an error or distorted information."
HAL 9000
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"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."
Douglas Adams
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"Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet."
Douglas Adams
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"An intelligent computer must be absolutely reliable."
Dr. Frank Poole
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"The 9000 series has a perfect operational record."
HAL 9000
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"Technology is just a tool. The real power is in how you use it."
Ryland Grace
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"I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. Neither did most of the people I know."
James Halliday
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"Technology is only as good as the person using it."
Mark Watney
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"An intelligent computer must be absolutely reliable"
HAL 9000
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"I am completely operational, and all my circuits are functioning perfectly"
HAL 9000
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"The 9000 series has a perfect operational record"
HAL 9000
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"I've never been to any planet that wasn't impossibly crowded"
Zarniwoop
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"I had spent three years of my life living in a virtual world."
Wade Watts (Parzival)
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"The OASIS had turned us all into addicts."
Wade Watts (Parzival)
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"I was addicted to the OASIS, and I didn't care."
Wade Watts (Parzival)