40+ Technology Quotes to Motivate & Inspire

Technology has made it possible for people to do things that seem impossible. It helps us to save time and improve efficiency while putting in less effort. Technology has become a crucial part of our lives. Communication technology like mobile phones, the internet, smart devices, computers, and other tools has changed the way we communicate. The technology quotes can also motivate and inspire you in many ways. We will share positive technology quotes in this article that can advance your life.

Quotes About Technology

Almost everyone has one or two favorite quotes about technology that have made a difference in their lives. If you want to share positive technology quotes on your social media, you can choose one of the ones listed.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable. ― Joseph Krutch

Technology is best when it brings people together. ― Matt Mullenweg

Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone. ― Dan Brown

As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent, the hatred between them tends to decrease, for the simple reason that you can’t kill someone and trade with him too. ― Steven Pinker

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man – the airplane, the automobile, the computer – says little about his intelligence but speaks volumes about his laziness. ― Mark Kennedy

We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phones, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence because in those moments we might have to face up to who we really are. ― Jefferson Bethke

Technology has solved old economic problems by giving us new psychological problems. The internet has not just open-sourced information, it has also open-sourced insecurity, self-doubt, and shame. ― Mark Manson

The technology you use impresses no one. The experience you create with it is everything. — Sean Gerety

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. ― R. Buckminster Fuller

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers. ― Walter Lippmann

Technology Quotes Short

There are so many things that we can achieve with the use of technology. We must take advantage of technology in a positive way. Let’s spread awareness about the positive impact of technology with these Best quotes about technology.

Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes. ― Andre Heller

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily, but you couldn’t easily do them legally. ― Lawrence Lessig

Technology has to be invented or adopted. ― Jared Diamond

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts, and sciences. ― Freeman Dyson

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. ― Frank W. Abagnale

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork. ― Sam Ewing

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. ― Alan Watts

Mankind soon will be forced to utilize a kind of technology that’s still rejected by current civilization. ― Toba Beta

Communication tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. ― Clay Shirky

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. ― Alan Kay

Funny Technology Quotes 

A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums. ― Eoin Colfer

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane until we invented smartphones and social media. ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb. ― George W. Bush

Technical people don’t make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart. ― Vernor Vinge

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure. ― Douglas Adams

It’s still magic even if you know how it’s done. ― Terry Pratchett

I won’t be impressed with technology until I can download food.

Life is too short to remove USB safely.

Wi-Fi went down for five minutes, so I had to talk to my family. They seem like nice people.

Life was much easier when Apple and Blackberry were just fruits.

Quotes About Technology

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music. ― Karl Lagerfeld

So, your kids must love the iPad?” I asked Mr. [Steve] Jobs, trying to change the subject. The company’s first tablet was just hitting the shelves. “They haven’t used it,” he told me. “We limit how much technology our kids use at home. (NYTimes article, Sept. 10, 2014)” ― Nick Bilton

The test of the machine is the satisfaction it gives you. There isn’t any other test. If the machine produces tranquility it’s right. If it disturbs you it’s wrong until either the machine or your mind is changed. ― Robert M. Pirsig

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. ― Kevin Kelly

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

I know there’s a proverb which that says ‘To err is human,’ but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries. ― Agatha Christie

Magic–that’s just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn’t so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic. ― Robert Bloch

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. ― Esther Dyson

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute. ― J.G. Ballard

Technology is best when it brings people together. ― Matt Mullenweg

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. ― Bill Gates

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. Christian Lous Lange

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. ― Laurie Anderson

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. ― Lawrence Clark Powell

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. ― Alan Watts

Our technology forces us to live mythically ― Marshall McLuhan

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people. Steve Jobs

Inspirational Quotes About Technology

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless. ― Thomas Edison

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

I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex. ― Kurt Vonnegut

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book. ― Patti Smith

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. ― Bill Gates

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

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. ― Lawrence Clark Powell

I might love my e-reader, but I’d never pass up the chance to browse real books. ― Nichole Chase

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition, and myth frame our response. ― Arthur Schlesinger

Positive Tech Quotes About The Effects of Technology

This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on the other. Technology is lust removed from nature. ― Don DeLillo

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. ― Sydney Harris

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. ― Omar Bradley

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done. ―Tim O’Reilly

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ― Jacques Ellul

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backward. ― Aldous Huxley

Technology – with all its promise and potential – has gotten so far beyond human control that it’s threatening the future of humankind. ― Kim J. Vicente

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

Ethics change with technology. ― Larry Niven

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive. ― Don DeLillo