Odes to Technology

Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?
— Roy Trenneman

Sometimes quotations get a bad reputation for being stuffy or old-fashioned, but some of the choicest words were pronounced about technology, and remain timeless.

Quotes about gadgets and technology abound on Quotables. Here are some of our top quotations about the magic of modern technology and its inherent trickiness.

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that do not work.
— Thomas Edison

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.
— Stephen Fry

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
— Albert Einstein

There’s no such thing as information overload, there’s only filter failure.
— Clay Shirky

That’s a strange word, users. It is only used in the drug and computer industries.
— Edward Tufte

The email of the species is deadlier than the mail.
— Stephen Fry

Prior to the Internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table.
— Clay Shirky

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
— George Orwell

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
— Arthur C. Clarke

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.
— Eric Schmidt

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