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"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." Aldous Leonard Huxley 3.5000 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
"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences." Freeman John Dyson 4.0909 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
"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 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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." E. W. Dijkstra 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as 'nutty methods.' Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as "a complete waste of time." Scott Adams 4.2941 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
"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
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