Best Old Technology Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.”

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Author:Douglas Coupland

“The age of automation is going to be the age of "do it yourself".”

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Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”

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Book:Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization

“The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.”

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Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.”

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Author:Dean Wareham

“You affect the world by what you browse.”

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Author:Tim Berners-Lee

“As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'”

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Author:Marshall McLuhan

“Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.”

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Author:Daniel J. Boorstin

“The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.”

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Author:Niklas Zennstrom

“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.”

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Author:Omar N. Bradley

“Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.”

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Author:Laurie Anderson

“As each wave of technology is released. It must be accompanied by a demand for new skills, new language. Consumers must constantly update their ways of thinking, always questioning their understanding of the world. Going back to old ways, old technology is forbidden. There in no past, no present, only an endless future of inadequacy”

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Author:Richard Kadrey

“Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”

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Book:Homo Faber

Source: Homo Faber

“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.”

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Author:Stewart Brand

“The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation.”

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

“Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.”

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Author:Freeman Dyson

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”