Mark Steyn Quotes

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

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

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

I mean the future has become old fashioned.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Open is something, I think, that will continue to drive a lot of innovation.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most important thing.

The ancient liberal faith ... that our course be governed not by the dead hand of yesterday's facts and prejudices but by the living realities of today and our aspiration for tomorrow. It is this genius for making change serve the eternal unchanging values we cherish that is the very essence of American liberalism.

It’s important to embrace new technologies instead of fight them.

No particular technology lasts for long.

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values.

What seems impossible today, may half a century hence have become commonplace.

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.