Downsides Of Technology Quotes & Sayings

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Yeah, I don't have enough words for this ... — J.R. Ward

We are smart enough to realise that we are stupid, and stupid enough to make the problem of becoming smarter hard. — Anders Sandberg

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent. — Steve Jobs

One of the things I've come to realize is that, like every new technology and like every disruption, broadband has downsides. — Julius Genachowski

It is much easier to imagine ourselves in the place of God the Creator than in the place of Christ crucified. — Simone Weil

How we speak to our children and the words we use can encourage and uplift them and strengthen their faith. — Rosemary M. Wixom

Most people feel best about their work the week before their vacation, but it's not because of the vacation itself. What do you do the last week before you leave on a big trip? You clean up, close up, clarify, and renegotiate all your agreements with yourself and others. I just suggest that you do this weekly instead of yearly. — David Allen

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages. — Ray Kurzweil

To act - that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success. — Fernando Pessoa

A day lays low and lifts up again all human things. — Sophocles

I'll never give up being into trying to change the world. — Genesis P-Orridge

Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts. — Brian Kernighan

When she returned to the office, she found that Mr Jasper Cohen had gone abruptly on holiday. His son had been killed in Spain - he had been shot, near Madrid, rather more than a year before; a friend of his had written, on returning safe to England, to tell his father so. — Doris Lessing

To be happy - that's all that matters. — Audrey Hepburn

Nowadays, being "connected" means 24/7 availability. Emailing, texting, Twittering, calling, keeping one's website and Facebook status current seem essential to being and remaining relevant in the world. In addition to the positive impact of globally interconnecting humanity, the information era is also contributing to the creation of a high-tech, low-touch society. It is impacting language, the publishing world, education, and social revolts. Neurologists and other pundits, including Nicholas Carr in his Atlantic article, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?", point out the paradoxical downsides of not setting healthy boundaries or applying discipline to how we engage technology. Some have gone so far as to suggest that it is making us "spiritually stupid" by keeping us too distracted to participate in spiritual practices. But how about this: can using technology with mindfulness lead to beneficial social and spiritual connection? — Michael Bernard Beckwith

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. — Immanuel Kant