Steven Berkoff Quotes

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

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

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

The Church warns against the attempts to use the scientific and technological progress for establishing control over the inner world of the personality, for creating any technologies making it possible to infuse and manipulate the human consciousness or sub-consciousness.

Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us.

In this day and age, technology has overtaken our lives and we are disconnected from reality.

When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution...Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

Fame is often called a deal with the devil. Reality show fame is a really bad deal with the devil.

If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it.

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

We are living, we have long been told, in the Information Age. Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders.

Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.

Technology is not destiny.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an equal advantage to the evil disposed.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.