Technology refers to the application of scientific knowledge, tools, and techniques to solve practical problems, achieve specific goals, or improve existing processes. It encompasses a wide range of innovations, from simple tools and machines to complex systems and advanced electronic devices. Technology plays a crucial role in shaping and influencing various aspects of human life, including communication, transportation, healthcare, education, entertainment, and more.
The term “technology” is broad and can refer to both hardware, such as computers and smartphones, and software, like applications and programs. It also includes processes and methodologies designed to achieve specific outcomes efficiently. Technology has been a driving force behind societal and economic advancements, continually evolving and impacting how people live, work, and interact with the world.
Technology Quotes
1. “We’re changing the world with technology.”
— Bill Gates
2. “Technology alone is not enough.”
— Steve Jobs
3. “Don’t become a slave to technology – manage your phone, don’t let it manage you.”
— Richard Branson
4. “If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don’t understand the problems and you don’t understand the technology.”
— Bruce Schneier
5. “Investing in tomorrow’s technology today is more critical than ever…”
— Bill Gates
6. “It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.”
— Clay Shirky
7. “Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
— Rick Cook
8. “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”
— Carl Sagan
9. “Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”
— Louis Pasteur
10. “Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.”
— Patrick Lencioni
11. “While we’re all very dependent on technology, it doesn’t always work.”
— Bill Gates
12. “Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”
— Anton Chekhov
13. “You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backward to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to sell it.”
— Steve Jobs
14. “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
— Douglas Adams
15. “I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.”
— Steve Jobs
16. “Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.”
— John F. Kennedy
17. “You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday’s impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.”
— Ronald Reagan
18. “The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”
— B. F. Skinner
19. “Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we’re compelled to face.”
— Frank Herbert
20. “The earth, the sea, and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.”
— John F. Kennedy
21. “As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.”
— Abdul Kalam
22. “People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”
— Aldous Huxley
23. “There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.”
— Bill Gates
24. “Even in such technical lines as engineering, about 15% of one’s financial success is due one’s technical knowledge and about 85% is due to skill in human engineering, to personality and the ability to lead people.”
— Dale Carnegie
25. “Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.”
— Jeff Koons
26. “The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.”
— Bill Gates
27. “Technology is society-made durable.”
— Bruno Latour
28. “I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”
— Elon Musk
29. “The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.”
— Margaret Mead
30. “Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don’t quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.”
— Douglas Adams
31. “Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.”
— Evgeny Morozov
32. “The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.”
— Eckhart Tolle
33. “Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.”
— Jacob Bronowski
34. “My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
35. “The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.”
— John Glenn
36. “In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something – so why aren’t we doing that with social policy?”
— Esther Duflo
37. “But there’s still so much you can do with technology to improve the customer experience. And that’s the sense in which I believe it’s still Day One, and that it’s early in the day. If anything, the rate of change is accelerating.”
— Jeff Bezos
38. “Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It’s a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.”
— Terence McKenna
39. “Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.”
— Henry David Thoreau
40. “I want Wipro to be among the top ten IT companies in the world.”
— Azim Premji
41. “When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.”
— Eric Hoffer
42. “Think Different.”
— Steve Jobs
43. “I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.”
— Thomas A. Edison
44. “Men have become the tools of their tools.”
— Henry David Thoreau
45. “One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
— Elbert Hubbard
46. “Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.”
— John F. Kennedy
47. “Technology is important because it creates the future. We’re able to be a part of the “next” and create things that don’t exist.”
— MC Hammer
48. “If you don’t want to be replaced by a computer, don’t act like one.”
— Arno Allan Penzias
49. “If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.”
— Bill Gates
50. “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
— Albert Einstein
