Technology Quotes

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Technology Quotes

Looking at screens isn't great for your eyes. But...keep looking. Click on any technology quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.

"Allons-y!"

Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: Tenth Doctor

"Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black."

Source: My Life and Work (1923) | Author: Henry Ford

"Beam me up, Scotty."

Source: Star Trek | Speaker: Captain Kirk

"Danger, Will Robinson!"

Source: Lost in Space | Speaker: The Robot

"Don't cross the streams."

Source: Ghostbusters | Speaker: Egon Spengler

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

Source: Henry Ford's Marketing Team | Speaker: Henry Ford

"He's alive! Alive!"

Source: Frankenstein | Speaker: Dr. Henry Frankenstein

"Hello. IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

Source: The IT Crowd | Speaker: Roy Trenneman

"I am definitely a mad man with a box."

Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: Eleventh Doctor

"I don't know what's right and what's real anymore."

Source: The Fear | Speaker: Lily Allen

"I invented the internet."

Source: Al Gore | Speaker: Al Gore

"I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV."

Source: Vicks Formula 44 | Speaker: Chris Robinson

"I'm the man who's gonna save your lives and all 6 billion people on the planet below. You got a problem with that?"

Source: Doctor Who | Speaker: The Tenth Doctor

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

Source: Letter to Robert Hooke | Author: Sir Isaac Newton

"In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, and they had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Source: The Third Man | Speaker: Harry Lime

"It keeps going and going and going..."

Source: Energizer Commercials | Speaker: Commercial Narrator

"It takes a licking and keeps on ticking."

Source: Timex Commercials | Speaker: John Cameron Swayze

"Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about…"

Source: Mysticism and Logic | Author: Bertrand Russell

"No arts; no letters; no society."

Source: Leviathan | Author: Thomas Hobbes

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey | Speaker: Dave Bowman

"Private eyes. They're watching you. They see your every move."

Source: "Private Eyes" | Speaker: Hall and Oates

"Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads."

Source: Back to the Future | Speaker: Dr. Emmett Brown

"Shall we play a game?"

Source: WarGames | Speaker: WOPR/Joshua

"The truth is...I am Iron Man."

Source: Iron Man | Speaker: Tony Stark

"We speak student."

Source: Tagline | Author: Shmoop

"You take the blue pill […] You take the red pill."

Source: The Matrix | Speaker: Morpheus