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