Top 100 Technology Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.”

— Clay Shirky

52. “Let’s go invent tomorrow!”

— Steve Jobs

53. “The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

54. “Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.”

— Elon Musk

55. “The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.”

— Mark Weiser

56. “Computers are like a bicycle for our minds.”

— Steve Jobs

57. “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without talking about the other.”

— Bill Gates

58. “Code never lies, comments sometimes do.”

— Ron Jeffries

59. “Good software, like wine, takes time.”

— Joel Spolsky

60. “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

61. “Nothing works better than just improving your product.”

— Joel Spolsky

62. “A computer is like air conditioning – it becomes useless when you open Windows.”

— Linus Torvalds

63. “Great companies are built on great products.”

— Elon Musk

64. “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”

— Reid Hoffman

65. “Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.”

— Isaac Asimov

66. “We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

— Carl Sagan

67. “Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”

— Louis Pasteur

68. “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

69. “While we’re all very dependent on technology, it doesn’t always work.”

— Bill Gates

70. “Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”

— Anton Chekhov

71. “You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can’t start with the technology and try to figure out where you’re going to sell it.”

— Steve Jobs

72. “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”

— Douglas Adams

73. “Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.”

— John F. Kennedy

74. “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

75. “You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday’s impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.”

— Ronald Reagan

76. “The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”

— B. F. Skinner

77. “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

78. “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

79. “As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.”

— Abdul Kalam

80. “People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”

— Aldous Huxley

81. “There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.”

— Bill Gates

82. “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

83. “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

84. “Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.”

— Jeff Koons

85. “Technology is society made durable.”

— Bruno Latour

86. “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

87. “I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”

— Elon Musk

88. “Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.”

— Evgeny Morozov

89. “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

90. “The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.”

— Eckhart Tolle

91. “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

92. “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

93. “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

94. “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

95. “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

96. “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

97. “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

98. “I want Wipro to be among the top ten IT companies in the world.”

— Azim Premji

99. “Think Different.”

— Steve Jobs

100. “When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it.”

— Eric Hoffer