Technology Quotes

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

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.

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

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

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

Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

You affect the world by what you browse.

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

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.

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

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

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

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

America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

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

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

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

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.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

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

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

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.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

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

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

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.

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

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

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

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.

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

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.

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.

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

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.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

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.

My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there.

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

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.

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

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

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

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

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

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

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

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.

Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

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.

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

A satellite has no conscience.

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.

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

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

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.

Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

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

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

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 internet is a great way to get on the net.

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.

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

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

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

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

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.

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

Defect-free software does not exist.

These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

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

To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.

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

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.