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Quotes about technology
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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. (Voight Jon)
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true. (Voight Jon)
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers. (Voight Jon)
Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal. (Voight Jon)
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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease. (Voight Jon)
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery, in impoverishment. (Voight Jon)
Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. (Voight Jon)
Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy. (Voight Jon)
However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible. (Voight Jon)
By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed. (Voight Jon)
We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race. (Voight Jon)
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw. (Voight Jon)
When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb. (Voight Jon)
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. (Voight Jon)
The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him. (Voight Jon)
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning. (Voight Jon)
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. (Voight Jon)
In health of mind and body, men should see with their own eyes, hear and speak without trumpets, walk on their feet, not on wheels, and work and war with their arms, not with engine-beams, nor rifles warranted to kill twenty men at a shot before you can see them. (Voight Jon)
I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful. To go for giantism is to go for self-destruction. (Voight Jon)
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. (Voight Jon)
Technology does not drive change -- it enables change. (Voight Jon)
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. (Voight Jon)
Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you. (Voight Jon)
Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humans -- you know the answer before I say it -- that's not good. (Voight Jon)
For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes. (Voight Jon)
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