Technology Quotes | Funny and Thought-Provoking Sayings on Modern Tech.

Technology has shaped our world in ways we couldn’t have imagined. From humorous takes on our smartphone obsessions to deep reflections on how tech affects our lives, these quotes capture the many sides of our relationship with technology. Explore these funny, insightful, and sometimes cautionary quotes that reveal our complicated bond with modern gadgets.

Funny Technology Quotes

Technology often leads to amusing situations, especially in our daily lives. These quotes capture the humorous side of our tech-driven world and the absurdities that come with it.

That awkward moment when you see a 10-year-old child with a better phone than yours.
I won’t be impressed with technology until I can download food from the internet.
Dear cellphone companies, please make a “Unsend my text” option.
Life is what happens to you while you’re looking at your smartphone.
The Internet turned everyone into an entrepreneur. – Anthony Pompliano
If your consumer app isn’t being used while someone sits on the toilet, it’s probably not going to work. – Brian Norgard
I’ll call it a smartphone the day I yell, “Where’s my phone?” and it answers, “I’m here! Under your jacket!”
Smartphones have already replaced cameras, calendars, notebooks, alarm clocks, etc. Don’t let them replace you in your family.
I will not be impressed with technology until I can download chocolate.
Technology is a goddamn bully. – Scott Cherney

Thought-Provoking Quotes on Technology’s Impact

While technology offers incredible benefits, it also raises important questions about its impact on society, behavior, and values. These quotes make us pause and think about what tech really brings to our lives.

We expect more from technology and less from each other. – Sherry Turkle
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. – Bill Gates
Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes. – Andrew Heller
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. – Albert Einstein
Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. – Max Frisch
Technology offers us a unique opportunity, though rarely welcome, to practice patience. – Allan Lokos
Do not get obsolete like an old technology; keep innovating yourself. – Sukant Ratnakar
Our technology forces us to live mythically. – Marshall McLuhan
Technology changes, but people stay the same. – Daniel H. Wilson
Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media. – Katherine Ryan

Quotes on Technology and Human Connection

As technology evolves, so does its role in shaping human relationships. These quotes explore how tech impacts our connections with others, sometimes bringing us closer, other times pushing us apart.

The things you own end up owning you. – Brad Pitt
We live in an age of reproduction. Most of what makes up our personal picture of the world we have never seen with our own eyes; we are televiewers, telehearers, teleknowers. – Max Frisch
We often use technology to save time, but increasingly, it takes the saved time along with it or makes the saved time less intimate and rich. – Jonathan Safran Foer
Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet. – Carl Honore
In this new wave of technology, you can’t do it all yourself. You have to form alliances. – Carlos Slim
Technology doesn’t change people’s basic needs or their natures. – Priya Ardis
We live through sound and light—through our technologies. – Lidia Yuknavitch
Fiction is empathy technology. – Steven Pinker
Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable. – Joseph Wood Krutch
We are not the technology. It should be our slave, but it’s rapidly becoming our master. – Prince Charles

Technology’s Role in Innovation and Change

Technology drives progress and innovation, leading to remarkable changes in how we live and work. These quotes reflect the ways technology shapes and reshapes the world, pushing humanity forward in surprising ways.

In technology, whatever can be done will be done. – Andrew S. Grove
Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return. – Newton Lee
Only technology evolves. – Dale Lotreck
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke
Ubiquitous streaming cameras with remote storage will eventually end almost all physical criminal activities. – Naval Ravikant
As we go forward, I hope we’ll continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work. – Sergey Brin
Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process, it will create brand new ones. – Scott Adams
The most important thing about technology is how it changes people. – Jaron Lanier
Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. – Larry Page
Technology to me does two things: it increases the velocity of communication and the number of people who can participate. – Jack Dorsey

Quotes on AI and the Future of Technology

Artificial intelligence has transformed industries and opened new possibilities for the future. These quotes dive into the potential and challenges AI brings to society.

AI is awesome until it does your job better than you, for free, instantly. Then, it becomes frightening. – Alex Hormozi
AI will rapidly commoditize quantity. Quality will be king (for a window) until it takes that too. – Alex Hormozi
One of the greatest ironies and perhaps tragedies of our time is when the AIs think that WE are not human. – Adiela Akoo
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it. – Ansel Adams
The Internet turned everyone into an entrepreneur. – Anthony Pompliano
Technology is anything invented after you were born. – Alan Kay
If you had all the world’s information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you’d be better off. – Sergey Brin
So much technology, so little talent. – Vernor Vinge
Technology is cold; find a real hand to hold. – Paul McGirl
The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book. – Northrop Frye

Reflective Quotes on Technology’s Limits

While technology holds great power, it has its limits. These quotes encourage us to consider the boundaries of technology and remember that it’s ultimately a tool to serve humanity.

It’s hard for them to tell you what they want when they’ve never seen anything remotely like it. – Steve Jobs
Technology changes, but people stay the same. – Daniel H. Wilson
Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life. – Larry Page
Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. – Sergey Brin
Science and technology are a propellant for building a thriving country, and the happiness of the people and the future of the country hinge on their development. – Kim Jong-un
Technology is anything that doesn’t work yet. – W. Daniel Hillis
Technology offers a unique opportunity to practice patience, though rarely welcome. – Allan Lokos
Ethics change with technology. – Larry Niven
Technology is a queer thing. It brings you gifts with one hand and stabs you in the back with the other. – C.P. Snow
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. – Karl Marx

From the humorous to the profound, these technology quotes reflect the double-edged nature of tech in our lives. As we continue to innovate, it’s worth pausing to consider how these tools shape us, both positively and negatively. Whether technology is seen as a tool for progress or a source of new challenges, its impact on our world is undeniable and ongoing.