Technology Quotes

» The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

» The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

» The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

» People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

» Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

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

» Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

» Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

» Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

» Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

» Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

» The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

» Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

» Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

» Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

» The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

» What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

» Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

» The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

» The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

» The internet is a great way to get on the net.

» I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

» All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

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

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

» The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

» It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

» Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

» Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

» The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

» The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

» The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

» The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

» One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

» It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

» You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

» If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

» Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

» There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

» Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

» Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.

» Men have become the tools of their tools.

» I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

» Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

» Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

» Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

» The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

» I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

» The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

» In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

» Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.

» You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

» We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

» Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

» The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

» It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

» Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

» Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

» We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

» Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

» The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

» Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools.

» Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

» What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

» Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

» If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

» Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

» The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

» People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

» Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

» I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

» For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

» The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.

» Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

» You affect the world by what you browse.

» Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

» For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

» Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

» The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

» It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

» Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

» For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms.

» Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

» Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

» The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

» And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

» The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.

» The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

» I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

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