Funny quotes about technology failures

At some time or another, technological failures have happened to all of us. What follows are fun, funny and thought-provoking quotes about computers, technology, and digital systems in our work, businesses, and home lives, curated by the Techovy review team.

Frank Lloyd Wright: "If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."

Max Frisch: "Technology…the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG."

Henry David Thoreau: "Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools."

Karl Marx: "The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. "

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

Marshall McLuhan: "The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb."

Mike Trout: "Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage."

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

John Tudor: "Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology."

Andrew Heller: "Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes."

Andy Rooney: "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. "

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

Nicholas P. Negroponte: "It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human literacy. Computers have to become human-literate. "

Joseph Weizenbaum: "A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind."

R. Buckminster Fuller: “I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.”

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

Elbert Hubbard; "One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."

William M. Kelly: "Man is a slow, sloppy and brilliant thinker; the machine is fast, accurate and stupid.”

Joseph Campbell: "Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?"

Author Unknown: "Computers have lots of memory but no imagination."

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