Quotes on Technology

"This is my world. My world!" – Agent Smith (The Matrix Revolutions)"

The Matrix, Technology

"The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now in this very room." – Morpheus (The Matrix)

The Matrix, Technology

"Do you think that's air you're breathing now?" – Morpheus (The Matrix)

The Matrix, Technology

"Goodbye, Mr. Anderson…" – Agent Smith (The Matrix)

The Matrix, Technology

"Never send a human to do a machine's job." – Agent Smith (The Matrix)

“I’m never on Twitter. I’m never on Instagram. And that’s not by choice: it’s just that those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain’t really been my focus.”

Kevin Gates, Technology

“Facebook: What’s on your mind? ..Twitter: What’s happening? Myspace: Where did everybody go?”

Will Ferrell, Technology

“Sleep is so cute when it tries to compete with the internet.”

Will Ferrell, Technology

“Facebook is like jail, you sit around and waste time, you write on walls and you get poked by people you don’t know.”

Will Ferrell, Technology

"They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. It is electronic masturbation."

Karl Lagerfeld, Technology

“Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow. Franklin capturing the lightning, Morse annihilating space with the telegraph, Bell transmitting speech through the air by the telephone, are not less mysterious—being more ethereal, perhaps in one sense they are even more so—still, the labor of the world performed by heating cold water places Watt and his steam engine in a class apart by itself.”
― Andrew Carnegie, James Watt

Andrew Carnegie, Technology

“I read a quote from Arthur C. Clark which said that ‘A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.’ And that’s really true. If you go back say, 300 years, the things we take for granted today, you’d be burned at the stake for. Being able to fly. That’s crazy. Being able to see over long distances, being able to communicate, having, effectively, with the Internet, a group mind of sorts, and having access to all the world’s information instantly from almost anywhere on the earth. This is stuff that would be considered magic in times past. In fact, I think it actually goes beyond that, because there are many things that we take for granted today that weren’t even imagined in times past. That weren’t even in the realm of magic. So it actually goes beyond that. So I thought, well, if I can do some of those things – if I can advance technology, then that’s like magic, and that would be really cool.”

Elon Musk, Technology

“Whatever the reason we first mustered the _Apollo_ program, however mired it was in Cold War nationalism and the instruments of death, the inescapable recognition of the unity and fragility of the Earth is its clear and luminous dividend, the unexpected final gift of _Apollo_. What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival.

Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Society, Technology, Goals

“The American and Russian capabilities in space science and technology mesh; they interdigitate. Each is strong where the other is weak. This is a marriage made in heaven - but one that has been surprisingly difficult to consummate.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Society, Technology, Goals

“The symbolism seemed so apt. The same technology that can propel apocalyptic weapons from continent to continent would enable the first human voyage to another planet. It was a choice of fitting mythic power: to embrace the planet named after, rather than the madness ascribed to, the god of war.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Science, Technology

“The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything in space in the past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Science, Technology

“We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipwrights. It has always been that way. Even those history books enamored of the voyages of Christopher Columbus do not tell much about the builders of the Nina the Pinta and the Santa Maria or about the principle of the caravel. These spacecraft their designers builders navigators and controllers are examples of what science and engineering set free for well-defined peaceful purposes can accomplish. Those scientists and engineers should be role models for an America seeking excellence and international competitiveness. They should be on our stamps.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Science, Technology

“Planetary exploration satisfies our inclination for great enterprises and wanderings and quests that has been with us since our days as hunters and gatherers on the East African savannahs a million years ago. By chance—it is possible, I say, to imagine many skeins of historical causality in which this would not have transpired—in our age we are able to begin again.

Exploring other worlds employs precisely the same qualities of daring, planning, cooperative enterprise, and valor that mark the finest in military tradition. Never mind the night launch of an Apollo spacecraft bound for another world. That makes the conclusion foregone. Witness mere F-14s taking off from adjacent flight decks, gracefully canting left and right, afterburners flaming, and there’s something that sweeps you away—or at least it does me. And no amount of knowledge of the potential abuses of carrier task forces can affect the depth of that feeling. It simply speaks to another part of me. It doesn’t want recriminations or politics. It just wants to fly.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Science, Technology

“Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there&pos;s no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Science, Technology

“I do not think it irresponsible to portray even the direst futures if we are to avoid them we must understand that they are possible. But where are the alternatives Where are the dreams that motivate and inspire We long for realistic maps of a world we can be proud to give to our children. Where are the cartographers of human purpose Where are the visions of hopeful futures of technology as a tool for human betterment and not a gun on hair trigger pointed at our heads.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot, Science, Technology, Goals

“No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have. We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology.”

Margaret Mead, Society, Technology

“The snooze button is the perfect symbol of human resistance, and the emblem of anyone who feels stuck.”

Mel Robbins, Technology

"Facebook is nothing but heavily packaged 'Kodak moments' that bear no relation to how people really live."

Mel Robbins, Technology

"Keep your phone out of the bedroom and get outside as often as you can."

Mel Robbins, Technology, Goals

“Like our intellect, social media in itself is neither good nor bad — it is the use to which we put it that counts.”

Jane Goodall, Intelligence/Wisdom, Technology

"With Netflix, I browse; I watch documentaries about things I’d never dream of, but I think, ’I might as well.’"

Ricky Gervais, Technology

"I always think about what it means to wear eyeglasses. When you get used to glasses you don't know how far you could really see. I think about all the people before eyeglasses were invented. It must have been weird because everyone was seeing in different ways according to how bad their eyes were. Now, eyeglasses standardize everyone's vision to 20-20. That's an example of everyone becoming more alike. Everyone could be seeing at different levels if it weren't for glasses."

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