"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
- Bill Gates -
"Technology is teaching us to be human again."
– Simon Mainwaring -
"Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle."
- James Surowiecki -
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
– Elbert Hubbard -
"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 Dyson -
"The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."
- Daniel J. Boorstin -
"Before you become too entranced with gorgeous gadgets and mesmerizing video displays, let me remind you that information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all."
- Arthur C. Clarke -
"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
– Omar N. Bradley -
"Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head."
– Jasper Fforde -
"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation."
- Jean Arp -
"Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."
– Carrie Snow -
"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."
– John Lasseter -
"Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer."
- Jeff Bridges -
"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book." – Northrop Frye -
"Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless."
- Thomas Edison -
"Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is."
– Robert M. Pirsig" -
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant."
– Mitchell Kapor -
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