Jerry Garcia Quotes

Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.

The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.

Technology will always win. You can delay technology by legal interference, but technology will flow around legal barriers.

Obsolescence is the very hallmark of progress.

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

They say rock is dead. Andy [Warhol] said art is dead. God is dead according to Nietzsche. If everything's dead what's alive? Only technology. We're in the era of technology.

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

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

Obsolescence is the key to innovation.

No technology will win. Technology itself will win.

There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.

We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.

Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of nature. If you don’t let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood! I am utterly convinced of this.

Always, in your career and personal life, be evolving with technology.

Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government-subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.