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 of sciences.

Freeman Dyson
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  2. Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous. - James Rozoff

  3. Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical. - Sherry Turkle

  4. We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues. - Alberto Manguel

  5. When an inscrutable technology becomes an invisible technology, we would be wise to be concerned. At that point, the technology's assumptions and intentions have infiltrated our own desires and actions. We no longer know whether the software is aiding s or controlling us. We're behind... - Nicholas Carr

More Quotes By Freeman Dyson
  1. I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano- Dijkstras.

  2. Normal is the greatest enemy with regard to creating the new. And the way of getting around this is you have to understand normal not as reality, but just a construct. And a way to do that, for example, is just travel to a lot...

  3. Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

  4. Technology is anything invented after you were born.

  5. Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.

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