We live in a society of groundbreaking innovations and technology. The progress of technology has come a long way and has led to countless benefits for human beings. But how has the advancement of technology shaped the quality of our life? The following compilation of quotes gives you a broad perspective of our use of technology. Feel free to use these quotes for an essay, a research paper, an email signature line or a personal motto. If you have an inspirational quote you would like to share feel free to add it by leaving a comment.

“Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.”
–Max Frisch

“Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.”
–Bill Gates

“Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.”
–Carly Fiorina

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”
–Karl Marx

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
–Isaac Asimov

“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.”
–Freeman Dyson

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
–Albert Einstein

“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
–B.F. Skinner

“Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.”
–Alan Watts quotes

“Once upon a time we were just plain people.  But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems.  Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.”
–Ellen Goodman

“We’re changing the world with technology.”
–Bill Gates quotes

“The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.”
–Dennis Gabor

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”
–Sydney J. Harris

“Technology… is a queer thing.  It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.”
–C.P. Snow

“I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind! “
–Author Unknown

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
–Aldous Huxley

“The medium, or process, of our time – electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action,”
–Marshall McLuhan

“The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.”
–Edward Teller

It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
–T.S. Eliot

“Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.”
–Henry David Thoreau

“Whereas knights of old wore armor of plate, the modern knights of the air wear the invisible but magic armor of confidence in technology”
–Mike Spick

“All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness.”
–Mark Kennedy

“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.”
–Saint-Exupéry

“You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.”
–Walter Lippmann

“I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.”
–E.F. Schumacher

“We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.  We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.”
–Carl Sagan

Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines.
–Erich Fromm

“Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.”
–Daniel J. Boorstin

“The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.”
–Marshall McLuhan

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
–Richard P. Feynman

“The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human”
–John Naisbitt

“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
–R. Buckminster Fuller

“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…tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego.  His anxiety subsides.  His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.”
–Jean Arp

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.  No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
–Elbert Hubbard

Technology presumes there’s just one right way to do things and there never is.
–Robert M. Pirsig

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.”
–Alfred North Whitehead

“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.”
–Stewart Brand

“Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?”
–Al Boliska

“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $ 25 cars that got 1000 MPG”
–Bill Gates

“It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.”
–Pearl S. Buck

“As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of “do it yourself”.”
–Marshall McLuhan

“When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it – whether it be a factory or a government.”
–Alexander Chase

“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.”
–John Stuart Mill

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.
–Eric Hoffer

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
–Arthur C. Clarke

“Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes.”
–Andrew Heller

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.”
–Bill Gates

“In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.”
–Marshall McLuhan

“Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo:  not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these