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"Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks." John Kenneth Galbraith 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the 'as if' technique." William James 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor." Jeffrey Klein 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization." Ambrose Bierce 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner." General Omar Nelson Bradley 4.9667 average rating Rate this Quote
"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity." Albert Einstein 4.8780 average rating Rate this Quote
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." Albert Einstein 4.8684 average rating Rate this Quote
"During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think." Bernard Mannes Baruch 4.8333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal." Albert Einstein 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The best computer is a man, and it's the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor." Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons." Buckminster Fuller 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else... All our lauded technological progress--our very civilization--is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal." Albert Einstein 4.7143 average rating Rate this Quote
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if your're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road." Stewart Brand 4.7083 average rating Rate this Quote
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C(harles) Clarke 4.6316 average rating Rate this Quote
"All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent." David Ross Brower 4.6154 average rating Rate this Quote
"One thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse." Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 4.6000 average rating Rate this Quote
"While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man." Maya Angelou 4.5556 average rating Rate this Quote
"New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology." Robert E. Kahn 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze." Jean Nathan Miller 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The common dogma [of fundamentalists] is fear of modern knowledge, inability to cope with the fast change in a scientific-technological society, and the real breakdown in apparent moral order in recent years.... That is why hate is the major fuel, fear is the cement of the movement, and superstitious ignorance is the best defence against the dangerous new knowledge. ... When you bring up arguments that cast serious doubts on their cherished beliefs you are not simply making a rhetorical point, you are threatening their whole Universe and their immortality. That provokes anger and quite frequently violence. ... Unfortunately you cannot reason with them and you even risk violence in confronting them. Their numbers will decline only when society stabilizes, and adapts to modernity." G Gaia 4.4444 average rating Rate this Quote
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