Top 49 Technology Magic Quotes
#1. What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object
but a human thought caught and bound, made concrete through sacred technology. Magic, then, and a deep form of it.
Elizabeth Bear
#2. My first job after college was at Magic Quest, an educational software startup company where I was responsible for writing the content. I found that job somewhat accidentally but after working there a few weeks and loving my job, I decided to pursue a career in technology.
Susan Wojcicki
#3. Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
David Copperfield
#4. My most educated analysis, with all means of science and technology in mind, is that it's magic," Alex said. "There's no other possible explanation!" -Alex Bailey, The Land of Stories; The Wishing Spell
Chris Colfer The Land Of Stories
#5. You admit, then, that your world is not real? That it is a forgery?" Zina hesitated. "It branched off at crucial points, due to our interference with the past. Call it magic if you want or call it technology;
Philip K. Dick
#6. I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.
David Liss
#7. Combining magic with technology is a good way to influence the trajectory of where technology is going and show people what technology could be in our lives and what it shouldn't be.
Marco Tempest
#8. It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.
Nick Harkaway
#10. Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.
Scott Ritter
#11. Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great. But on the other hand, when everybody has the ability to make magic, it's like there's no more magic - if the audience can just do it themselves, why are they going to bother?
Thomas Bangalter
#12. Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.
David Copperfield
#13. I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
Gary Numan
#14. My most scientific analysis, with all means of science and technology in mind, is that it's magic.
Chris Colfer
#15. Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box is all of us. Ubiquitous technologies. What comes next ? Mystery as catalyst for imagination.
J.J. Abrams
#16. For a long time, it was one of these things where - I was really much younger than now - my whole "brand" both to the investors and to our board members was this crazy Russian boy-genius who comes out and sprinkles magic dust on technology and things just work.
Max Levchin
#17. The technology distracted us from our lack of answers to anything that mattered. It gave us a lesser form of magic to wield to appease us.
Kitty Thomas
#18. It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.
Terry Pratchett
#19. In the words of futurist Arthur C. Clarke, 'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Dan Brown
#20. Magic
that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.
Robert Bloch
#21. Everything is being transformed under the magic influence of science and technology. And every day, if we want to live with open eyes, we have a problem to study, to resolve.
Pope Pius VI
#22. Technology is our new mythos. There's magic in some of it, undeniably.
Christian Rudder
#23. Science fiction long assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic (much to its benefit), while fantasy long since assimilated the notion that any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology (much to my boredom).
Hal Duncan
#24. I practice neither black nor white magic.
What I do is a technology that I use for my own individual purposes. I don't strive to be a member of a club.
Christopher Rankin
#25. She would have found it peaceful and relaxing here, but in every town they traveled through, people radiated anxiety under uneasy masks of optimism. Their dependency on magic had made them nearly helpless now that everything magical was corrupted.
Colleen Chen
#26. Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.
Gregory Benford
#27. This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.
N.K. Jemisin
#28. Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
#29. Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.
Marshall McLuhan
#30. Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a strong road crew who are devoted and believe in you and protect you, you're totally naked.
Patti Smith
#31. Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.
Bernard Wolfe
#32. I was terrified by this idea that I would lose the ability to enjoy and appreciate the sunset without having my camera on me, without tweeting it to my friends. It felt like technology should enable magic, not kill it.
Shilo Shiv Suleman
#33. About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that could eventually be shared with other artists to start them off further on in the process and to get them into the poetry faster.
Marco Tempest
#35. As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.
Julie Kagawa
#36. I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.
Bat For Lashes
#37. Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.
Lev Grossman
#38. There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
Laura Esquivel
#39. I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original observation, but a lot of the smart devices people rely on now really do feel like magic to a lot of us.
Charlie Jane Anders
#40. My products and magic are free, but on the commercial side of what I do, the big tech companies are impressed with somebody like me who can emotionalize a piece of technology.
Marco Tempest
#41. Any connection with nature and most connections with technology are lost. There's a belief that nature is irrelevant and that anything can be solved using the current methods--now technology; previously magic or praying.
Jacob Lund Fisker
#43. I offer you a fable for our times...
A magic box sits in your pocket with all the knowledge and music and entertainment of the world contained within it.
If you opened this box and looked down into it...
...How could you ever possibly look up again?
- Larry Ferrell (Unfollow)
Rob Williams
#44. My little self-analysis is that consumer technology is the closest thing we have to magic. You push a button and something happens at your command. The things that get me fired up the most have always been the things that seem the most magical.
David Pogue
#45. You can fix things with digital technology and there's a temptation to fix everything or make it perfect and what you're losing there is the human performance that may not be perfect but there may be magic in it. You can make it perfect but music doesn't sound good perfect for some reason.
Joe Walsh
#46. Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
Barry Gehm
#47. What is so intriguing about this interplay between technology and the human imagination is that here we are dealing with the equation. As I imagine, so I become - and this is the very essence of magic.
Nevill Drury
#48. I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.
Ruth Rendell
#49. For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.
Penn Jillette