9 Albert Einstein Quotes on Technology

Albert Einstein quotes on technology

180. Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

210. It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

227. Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.

232. Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

244. The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

245. The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking. -- Einstein, fundraising telegram for the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists, May 23, 1946, Einstein Archives, 40-11.

246. The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

264. You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

265. Every day, man is making bigger and better foolproof things, and every day, Nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think Nature is winning.