Quotes About Technological Progress

#1. Some day perhaps our time will be known as the age of irony. Not the witty irony of the eighteenth century, but the stupid or malignant irony of a crude age of technological progress and cultural regression.

Erich Maria Remarque

#2. I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a 'time out' from technological progress as we know it.

James Howard Kunstler

#3. Today we are putting our hopes in materialism, in technological progress, and in freedom from moral absolutes. They have all failed. They've failed because they've been powerless to change the human heart. What is the answer? There is hope, if we will turn to God.

Billy Graham

#4. The responsibility of science, and the limits of technological progress.

Rachel Carson

#5. [We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty?

Mark Steyn

#6. There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

Margaret Thatcher

#7. Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it.

Rudolf Christoph Eucken

#8. 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.

Pope Pius XII

#9. The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers.

John Mearsheimer

#10. As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

Sam Brownback

#11. Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection. Rather, the decisions we make every day as citizens, consumers, and investors guide technological progress.

Klaus Schwab

#12. Tomorrow there will be no division to Europe and Asia. These are old concepts that would remain only on maps. Everything will be united. Companies will be united. It is a process of structures growing due to the technological progress.

Lech Walesa

#13. Some have argued that the current era of rapid technological progress serves labor, and some have argued that it serves capital. What both camps have slighted is the fact that technology is not only integrating existing sources of labor and capital but also creating new ones.

Anonymous

#14. Next time you have a bad day, remember that it is amazing that you are alive at all, much less a member of a self-aware species living at the height of human technological progress.

Hank Green

#15. Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Aldous Huxley

#16. The process of discovery (or innovation, or technological progress) itself depends on antifragile tinkering, aggressive risk bearing rather than formal education.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#17. I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.

Charles Lindbergh

#18. Emancipation of human nature inevitably brings with it scientific and technological progress.

Liu Cixin

#19. Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress.

Kim Campbell

#20. Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems.

Clayton Christensen

#21. If these modern peoples could inflict the most barbaric treatment and persecution on another group of human beings, then there was something very, very deplorable with our species. No amount of education or technological progress was going to make any difference in altering human savagery.

Mitchell Diamond

#22. In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.

Peter Thiel

#23. Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.

Wynton Marsalis

#24. There is no economic law that says that everyone, or even most people, automatically benefit from technological progress.

Nicholas Carr

#25. Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

Lars Feld

#26. I'm in favor of free trade, but I think if you had to make a choice between having technological progress versus free trade, you had one or the other, you should always pick technological progress. I think it's an incredibly important variable for creating more prosperity.

Peter Thiel

#27. By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth.

Mark Krikorian

#28. All men are born with an equal and inalienable right to disillusionment. So, until they choose to waive that right, it's three cheers for Technological Progress and a College Education for everybody.

Aldous Huxley

#29. Thanks to technological progress, Big Brother can now be almost as omnipresent as God.

Aldous Huxley

#30. In terms of technological progress,
the public is slower than focus group.

Toba Beta

#31. Economic growth is quite simply incapable of satisfying this democratic and meritocratic hope, which must create specific institutions for the purpose and not rely solely on market forces or technological progress.

Thomas Piketty

#32. The crisis of the community, its dislocation, the distress of most of its members, went hand in hand with technological progress and social differentiation.

Henri Lefebvre

#33. Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

#34. More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else ... All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.

Albert Einstein

#35. We are inheritors of progress, of a technological rebirth that had only ever been imagined before now. We don't talk about it, but at some point, it became clear to me: I am the child of a bookless age.

Ashley Mansour

#36. Every progress made by Satan and every technological breakthrough in human history occurs because God allowed it; God created Satan and God is in complete control of everything. Job 1:6-12

Felix Wantang

#37. Long term, I have a lot of confidence in the United States. We have an excellent record in terms of innovation. We have great universities that are involved in technological change and progress. We have an entrepreneurial culture, much more than almost any other country.

Ben Bernanke

#38. The dynamic nature of knowledge is reflected in human progress and technological achievements.

Eraldo Banovac

#39. Mass application of technological innovations, which constitutes much of the distinctive substance of modern economic growth, is closely connected with the further progress of science, in its turn the basis for additional advance in technology.

Simon Kuznets

#40. That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them.

Steven Johnson

#41. All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical progress, all of which should seem to alleviate human suffering ... tends instead to favor humanity's destruction.

Konrad Lorenz

#42. Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States.

Lewis M. Branscomb

#43. History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.

Michael P. Naughton

#44. We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year ... All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

George Packer

#45. Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

Nam June Paik

#46. The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

Peter Singer

#47. What is clear is that, to date, computer technology has served to strengthen Technopoly's hold, to make people believe that technological innovation is synonymous with human progress.

Neil Postman

#48. Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.

Ivor Brown