Technology Quotes

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

12000 quotes

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"Mars is a harsh mistress, but I'm learning her secrets."
Mark Watney
M
"Technology is humanity's greatest achievement. Let's hope it saves my ass."
Mark Watney
Y
"Technology is a double-edged sword that cuts both ways."
Ye Wenjie
W
"I felt like I was being swallowed by the screen."
Wade Watts (Parzival)
T
"The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed."
The Consul
T
"Technology without ethics becomes tyranny."
The Consul
T
"Technology and civilization progress only when humans believe in a future worth fighting for."
Thomas Wade
F
"You can't navigate wormholes by the stars. You navigate by instruments."
Ford Prefect
M
"Potatoes. The only crop that can sustain human life on Mars."
Mark Watney
C
"They wanted to create a genius. They created a ghost."
Charlie Gordon
F
"You can't trust a computer-run society"
Ford Prefect
C
"I was a test subject in the grand experiment of human ambition."
Charlie Gordon
L
"Any tool carries with it the spirit by which it was created."
Liet-Kynes
S
"The mind of Man is limited; machines are limits on the mind."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
S
"Technology without wisdom destroys as much as it creates."
Shevek
S
"The equations of physics are neutral; politics uses them"
Shevek
L
"Technology is a tool; people are the problem"
Lisbeth Salander
L
"Technology can expose what people wish to hide."
Lisbeth Salander
Z
"The infinite improbability drive is the greatest invention ever."
Zarniwoop
L
"Technology can reveal what people wish to hide."
Lisbeth Salander
S
"Technology serves the system that creates it"
Shevek
L
"The digital world offers freedom to those willing to take risks."
Lisbeth Salander
C
"I want to know what happens when I forget how to forget."
Charlie Gordon
T
"Technology should serve humanity, not rule it"
Takver
H
"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things."
Henry David Thoreau
H
"Men have become the tools of their tools."
Henry David Thoreau
M
"Tessering is a way of moving through space"
Mrs. Whatsit
W
"Technology serves the imagination."
Willy Wonka
M
"Television is a wasteland of the mind."
Matilda Wormwood
R
"Technology is just a tool. It's the human will that makes the difference."
Ryland Grace