Best magic & technology Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

“Magic, like technology, is a tool.”

Technology Magic Tools

Author:Mercedes Lackey

“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.”

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Author:Nevill Drury

“Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away.”

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Author:Wolfgang Petersen

“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.”

Littles Self Seems Happens Technology Magic Things Happen Command Consumers Analysis Closest Buttons Fired Up Self Analysis

Author:David Pogue

“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.”

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Author:David Copperfield

“It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is.”

Technology Magic Senses Threshold Advanced Technology

Author:Nick Harkaway

“I didnt want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad.”

Want Writing Book Technology Magic Good Technology

Author:David Liss

“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.”

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Author:Shilo Shiv Suleman

“Magic [has] been replaced by machinery.”

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Author:Shilo Shiv Suleman

“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.”

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Author:Patti Smith

“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.”

Humans May Reason Sound Perfect Technology Magic Losing Performances Temptation Digital Digital Technology May Not Be Perfect

Author:Joe Walsh

“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.”

Ifs Want Problem Eye Technology Study Magic Influence Resolve Transformed Science And Technology Open Eyes

Author:Pope Pius VI

“So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“It takes these very simple-minded instructions - 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' - but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second. At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic.”

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Author:Steve Jobs

“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.”

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Author:Charlie Jane Anders

“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.”

World Mind Made Real Feelings Problem Form Desire Answers Technology Fantasy Magic Reader Offers Trapped

Author:Lev Grossman

“Science and technology were often used by [the magician of old], even before they came into the marketplace on a mass basis. For example, prior to the moving picture going into theatre, magicians were using the technique of images in motion as illusions in their shows. At that time the process was so new, an audience perceived it as magic. Also in the early stages of holograms magicians would use these images to baffle and mystify their fans. Hence, you always need to stay one step ahead of the technology game to "WOW" the audience.”

“The profound aspect of technology is that once secrets are revealed, the magic doesn't disappear.”

Secret Technology Magic Aspect Profound Disappear

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“I'm surprised at some technological development, and the realization that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. I think the CD-ROM is the best example of that. The idea of having a whole symphony, or opera, or novel in a little piece of plastic is pretty amazing.”

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Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“When technology is used as a gimmick it can be a terrible distraction. The trick is to harness technology in a way that empowers the audience, informs them and brings them closer to the action. CNN has always been an innovator on election night, with the Magic Wall leading the way. Tonight, for the first time, and we're going to put the Magic Wall in the hands of our audience. Along with our partners at Microsoft, we have built a tool to let our users drill down into the key races and access a great deal of data, real time, as the results are unfolding.”

Real Action Night Technology Audience Magic Wall Terrible First Time Election Empowering Distraction Users

Author:Andrew Morse

“I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.”

Kind Technology Fantasy Magic

Author:Gary Numan

“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”

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Book:The Wee Free Men: (Discworld Novel 30)

Source: The Wee Free Men: (Discworld Novel 30)

“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.”

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Author:Jacob Bronowski

“It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.”

Knows Science Technology Know How Magic

Author:Terry Pratchett

“1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. 2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. 3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

Way Littles States Past Technology Impossible Magic Possibility Limits Scientist Discovering Venture Impossibility Distinguished Elderly Impossible Things Possible And Impossible Advanced Technology

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

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