Great Technology Quotes

September 30, 2015 By IdeaConnection

800px-Isaac.Asimov01Whether you are potting about in your garden shed inventing things, someone who believes they are sitting on the next big thing or a top flight engineer, here is a handful of thought provoking technology quotes to inspire and amuse:

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov, author

“Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” – Thomas Edison, Inventor

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.” – Elbert Hubbard, author

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” – Douglas Adams, author

“All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.” – Mark Kennedy, politician

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.” – Sydney Harris, Journalist

“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” – Omar N. Bradley, a field commander of the United States Army

“Technology frightens me to death. It’s designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.” – John Cleese, actor, comedian, writer and tall person


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