#technology

I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they are surrounded are cultural artifacts worthy of their attention and respect. ↗

— Bruno Latour

#love

Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone. ↗

— Gabrielle Zevin

#kids #little-kids #technology #humor

As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#imagination #magic #science #technology #imagination

Whatever happens, we have got The Maxim gun, and they have not. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#force #gun #humor #might_makes_right #technology

Some things are just like riding a bicycle; you jump on, pedal, and hope you don’t fall. ↗

— Henry Mosquera

#book #fiction #novel #political #quotes

TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#technology #humor

Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#humor #sex #technology #technophobes #wit

Technology doesn’t change people’s basic needs or their natures. ↗

— Priya Ardis

#technology #change

I remember an era when you could get your nose sliced off for sticking it too far into another man's business. Now you can find out anything about anyone with the click of a button. There is no privacy and no consideration, and everyone is prying into things that aren't their affair. You can probably check on the intertube and find out what color underwear I have on today. ↗

— Joe Hill

#business

History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses. ↗

— michael p naughton

#technological-progress #technology #business