TECHNOLOGY
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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we do about peace. We know more about killing than we do about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom, and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. – General Omar Bradley
Technology at its best is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clark
Two things are infinite—the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not too sure about the universe. – Albert Einstein
Everything that can be invented has been invented. – Charles H. Duel – Retiring Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office in 1899.
If we have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. – Isaac Newton
The natural laws of the universe are so precise that we have no difficulty building a spaceship to fly to the moon and can time the flight with the precision of a fraction of a second. These laws must have been set by somebody. – Wernher von Braun (rocket scientist)
Don’t find fault, find remedy. – Henry Ford
You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to your computer to turn your brain on. – Steve Jobs
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turn to the left. – Yep!
Heavier than air flying machines are impossible. Radio has no future. X-rays will prove to be a hoax. – Lord Kelvin (Leading thermodynamic scientist & President of British Royal Society – 1876.
The squeaking wheel doesn’t always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. – Vic Gold
I think there is a world market for about 5 computers. – Thomas J. Watson, chairman of IBM. – 1943
E-mail is like after a hard day’s work, coming home and finding 70 people in your kitchen. – John O’Donoghue
The art inspires the technology and the technology inspires the art. – John Lasseter (Pixar)
The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular? – David Sarnoff’s associates on radio future in 1920.
“This is the voice of world control. I bring you peace. I may be the peace of plenty and content, or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours. Obey me and live, or disobey and die.” – (Colossus, the U.S super-computer after joining the Soviet Guardian computer after taking over the world of military weapons.) – COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT – James Bridges (Screenplay) – 1970
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There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. – Albert Einstein – 1932.
Increased Internet use can increase social isolation as well as depression when it replaces more tangible forms of human contact. – John t. Cacioppo & William Patrick – LONELINESS—HUMAN NATURE and the NEED for SOCIAL CONNECTION
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. – George Orwell
The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist-deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. – Carl Sagan
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it way with the atomic bomb. – Robert J. Oppenheimer
I’m not gonna vacuum until Sears makes one you can ride on. – Rosanne Barr
If we continue to develop our technology, without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. – General Omar Bradley
I am more interested in what I discover than what I invent. – Paul Simon
The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. – Western Union to Alexander Graham Bell when offered the patent in 1876.
Whether you think you can, or think you can’t—you are right. – Henry Ford
In Albania it is not unusual to see an older person riding a donkey while talking on a cell phone. In India a beggar might pause in his solicitations to make or take a call on his phone. Advanced cell phone models enable users to access the Internet, send and receive e-mail and text messages, watch TV, listen to music, take photos, navigate the Global Positioning System (GPS) and, yes phone someone! According to a report in theWashington Post newspaper, a multimedia smartphone “Now has more processing power than did the North American Air Defense Command in 1965. In 2009 there were now one cell phone for every two humans on earth, and at least 30 nations have more cell phones than people.” – TECHNOLOGY—A BLESSING OR A CURSE? – AWAKE – Nov. 2009
One of the universal rules of happiness is: Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. – Terry Pratchett
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but his push-button finger. – Frank Lloyd Wright
We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our own human race. – John Naisbett
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We have been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We are cleaning up the air, but polluted the soul.We have conqueredthe atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We’ve learn to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, but we communicate less and less. – George Carlin
A technician is a man who understands everything about his job except its ultimate purpose and its plan in the order of the universe. – Richard Livingston
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations can even fathom. – Lewis Mumford
Addiction, distraction, interruption—these are perhaps the most recognized problems associated with popular communications and media technology. – TECHNOLOGY—A BLESSING OR A CURSE? – AWAKE – Nov. 2009
The discovery and investigative research of DNA has completely revolutionized the science of forensics, adding unquestionable truth to either guilt or innocence – Gary Pulliam
The bike is the perfect marriage of technology and human energy. – Jeremy Corbyn
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. – Bill Gates
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. – Albert Einstein
TechnolOgy can be our best friend, and technology can be the biggest party-pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we’re too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone. – Steven Spielberg.
“Your choice is simple—join us and live in peace, or pursue your present course and face obliteration. We shall be waiting for your answer. The decision rests with you.” – Klaatu (Michael Rennie) as the invading alien to the people of Earth. – THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL – Edmund H. North (Screenplay) – 1951
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. – Gertrude Stein
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means of going backward. – Aldous Huxley
Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind. – Philip Green
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“And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free.” – Jesus Christ – John 8:32 – Apostle John – The HOLY SCRIPTURES
Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have faith in people, and that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give the tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them. – Steve Jobs
HAL 9000 – (voice of Douglas Rain) – (On Dave’s (Keir Dullea) return to his ship, after HAL has killed the rest of the crew): “Look, Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.” – 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY – Stanley Kubrick / Arthur C. Clarke (Screenplay)– 1968
Technology has advanced more in the last 30 years than in the previous 2000. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. – Neils Bohr
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really notice it, so it’s part of everyday life. – Bill Gates
Television not only makes demands on our time, it consumes our attention by our contant viewing of visual images. Network TV often demands an average visual every 3.5 seconds, forcing us to think in spasms. – Gary Pulliam
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. – Mitchell Kapor
Even with all our technology and these inventions that makes modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we’re still at the mercy of nature. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
The first industrial revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The second used electric power to create mass production. The third used electronics and information technology to automate production. – Klaus Schwab
Does TV shape our culture, or merely reflect it? Television has BECOME our culture! No activity, other than sleep & work, takes up more time in America than watching TV. – Neil Postman – AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH
First words on the telephone: “Mr. Watson, come here – I want to see you.” – Alexander Graham Bell
More than 13 million soldiers and civilians paid the ultimate price for the disaster leading to World War 1. Optimism about the future and human nature also suffered a mortal blow as so-called civilized people armed with powerful, mass-produced, newly-invented weapons slaughtered one another on a unprecedented scale. The world was never the same again. –AWAKE – page 21 – August 2009
