Technology Quotes

"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."

"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."

"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."

"Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'"

"Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too."

"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them."

"An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is."

"It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people."

"Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future."

"The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts."

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious."

"Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science."

"Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests."

"The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It holds a position wholly its own, and the considerations it suggests are more interesting in their nature."

"A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales."

"In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons."

"When radium was discovered, no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it."

"After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it."

"We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts."

"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings."

"Study the past, if you would divine the future."