Technology Quotes by MONICA GADSBY

The machine which at first blush seems a means of isolating man from the great problems of nature, actually plunges him more deeply into them.

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— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (pilot and poet), Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939

We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.

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— John Culkin (media scholar), Saturday Review, 1967

As the power of machines increases, the role of persons more and more decreases to that of mere consumers.

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— Ivan Illich (theologian), Tools for Conviviality, 1973

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.

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— Ian Malcolm (fictional scientist), Jurassic Park, 1993

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.

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— Paul Virilio (French Philosopher), Politics of the Very Worst, p. 89, 1999

If the experience of modern society shows us anything, it is that technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.”

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— Langdon Winner (Science and Technology Studies Professor), “Technology as a Form of Life,‘“ p. 105, 2004

Letting a robot structure your argument, or flatten your style by removing the quirky elements, is dangerous. It’s a streamlined way to flatten the human mind, to homogenize human thought. We know who we are, at least in part, by finding the words — messy, imprecise, unexpected — to tell others, and ourselves, how we see the world. The world which no one else sees in exactly that way.

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— Margaret Renki (Writer), “I, Human,” New York Times, 2025

Technology enchants. It makes us forget what we know about life. We slip into thinking that always being connected is going to make us less lonely. But we are at risk because it is actually the reverse: If we are unable to be alone, we will be more lonely. And if we don’t teach our children to be alone, they will only know how to be lonely.

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— Sherry Turkle (academic), Reclaiming Conversation (p. 23), 2015

Technology is the active human interface with the material world.

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— Ursula K. Le Guin (science fiction writer), “A Rant About ‘Technology,” 2005

Technological development has come to be viewed as an autonomous thing, beyond politics and society, with a destiny of its own which must become our destiny too. — David Noble (Historian), Progress without People, 1995

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