Evgeny Morozov Quotes

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.

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

I'm very pro-science and pro-technology; I believe that these have been key drivers of progress in the world in the last centuries.

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

We presumably believe that most of the technological progress over the arc of humanity to date has been good. I don't see any argument to go back to 1600.

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

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.

Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.

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.

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.

I think about the automobile, I think about like, when I was a kid, you know, the invention of the answering machine, which I was like, 'Wow.' Or call waiting, which was, like, very big. It was a very big thing. Call waiting was a very big thing. And these incremental innovations happen constantly.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

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

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

'The Victorian Internet' is a must read for anyone interested in the history of technology and in the cycles of hype, boom, and bust that seem to only quicken with each new wave of innovation. Highly recommended.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Technology has always run ahead of legislation.

At the present time, when railways, the telegraph, the telephone, to say nothing of other inventions and improvements of importance, have simplified communication between all lands and nations to the last degree, there is scarcely any reason to fear either distance or the estrangement of the several parts of a single whole. Practically distance is almost nonexistent. What to our ancestors appeared simply near at hand now seems to lie immediately before our eyes

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

What was good enough for my father is good enough for me" is a treasured English axiom which, if strictly carried out, would have kept us to wooden ploughs and water clocks. In these days we need to be inoculated with some of the nervous energy of the Americans.

We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.

In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.