Technological Advance Quotes

#1. Every giant leap for mankind resulting from a technological advance requires a commensurate step in the opposite direction - a counterweight to ground us in humanity.

Alex Morritt

#2. Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.

Dave Eggers

#3. Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.

Saddam Hussein

#4. When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution ... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

Paul Virilio

#5. Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so) was speech - and both are still dangerous to this day - but human beings would not be human without them.

Isaac Asimov

#6. Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

Thomas Aquinas

#7. Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the Industrial Revolution and the flowering of modern capitalism.

Murray Rothbard

#8. Whilst it may be our species greatest achievement, responsible for every technological advance we have or ever will make, science is also poop and sex and boogers.

Katie McKissick

#9. Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.

Phil Gramm

#10. I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

Annie E. Clark

#11. Without charity, there is no salvation.

Allan Kardec

#12. A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run.

Francis Collins

#13. At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that. I did not think that specific and personal perspective functioned well for the reader at all.

Mary Oliver

#14. 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

#15. We humans are a technic species. Our technology, the pace of our technological advance, is a part of us, a part of everything we do.

Ian Douglas

#16. Can we behold, unheeding,
Life's holiest feelings crush'd; -
While Woman's heart is bleeding,
Shall Woman's voice be hush'd?

Elizabeth Margaret Chandler

#17. Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.

Carl Sagan

#18. If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.

Michael Harrington

#19. The California constitution provides that our judges are elected, not appointed. They are serving at the pleasure of the people and they are accountable to the people.

Michele Landis Dauber

#20. Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade.

Robert Kuttner

#21. There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.

Prince Charles

#22. There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.

Padgett Powell