英语名人名言：Technology 技术

　　For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

　　Alice Kahn

　　Any sufficiently1 advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

　　Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)

　　During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological2 revolutions. But none of them have done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

　　Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)

　　This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

　　Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, 2008

　　We make our gadgets3 our own by the way that we use them, with or without the permission of the manufacturer.

　　Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Gadgets Page, 07-09-09

　　Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

　　Max Frisch

　　If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery4.

　　Michael Harrington, The Other America, 1962

　　Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.

　　Putt's Law

　　Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

　　R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)

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

　　Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)

　　There is an evil tendency underlying5 all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

　　Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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