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"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity." Albert Einstein 4.8780 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
"Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks." John Kenneth Galbraith 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer." Vartan Gregorian 2.0000 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
"If you want to be the popular one at a party, here's a good thing to do: Go up to some people who are talking and laughing and say, 'Well, technically that's illegal.' It might fit in with what somebody just said. And even if it doesn't, so what, I hate this stupid party." Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 3.8571 average rating Rate this Quote
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." Aldous Leonard Huxley 3.5000 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
"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three." Alice Kahn 4.2000 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
"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
"Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable." Joseph Wood Krutch 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The mayor gave no other answer than that deep guttural grunt which is technically known in municipal interviews as refusing to commit oneself." Stephen Butler Leacock 4.0000 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 bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation." Tom Naylor 3.0000 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
"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
"I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!" Author Unknown 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours." John F. Kennedy 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
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