“First we build the tools, then they build us.”
More from Marshall McLuhan on Technology
“Our technology forces us to live mythically”
“The greatest discovery of the 21st century will be the discovery that Man was not meant to live at the speed of light.”
“It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.”
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
Others on Technology
Dalai Lama
2 quotes“if we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives.”
Alan Watts
1 quote“Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the u...”
Aldous Huxley
1 quote“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”
Arthur C. Clarke
1 quote“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Bill Gates
1 quote“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.”
Dan Brown
1 quote“Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and...”
Douglas Adams
1 quote“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
1 quote“...no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone...”
Frank Lloyd Wright
1 quote“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.”
Gloria Steinem
1 quote“Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace goi...”
John Stuart Mill
1 quote“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.”
Jules Verne
1 quote“In consequence of inventing machines, men will be devoured by them.”