Quotes from technology's top thought leaders on how technology has shaped our lives in the past, present, and today.

1. How 10 Of Our Greatest
Thinkers Throughout
History Explain
Technology Today

2. “People who are really serious about
software should make their own
hardware.”
– Alan Kay

3. “Getting information from the Internet is
like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”
– Mitchell Kapor

4. “The machine does not isolate man from
the great problems of nature but plunges
him more deeply into them” – Antoine de
Saint-Expurey

5. “It has become appallingly clear obviously
that our technology has exceeded our
humanity.”
– Albert Einstein

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

7. “The real problem is not whether
machines think but whether men do.”
– B.F. Skinner

8. “Any sufficiently advanced
technology is indistinguishable from
magic.”
– Arthur C. Clarke

9. “Men have become tools of their
tools.”
– Henry David Thoreau

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

11. “Everybody gets so much all day long that
they lose their common sense.”
– Gertrude Stein