Technology Quotes

I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system.

In projecting the future, I think Apple did a good job of figuring out when the technology was ready to be consumer-grade.

Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

The surveillance state has run amok. Technology that's enabled us to send selfies 24/7 - not that valuable - has also enabled us to be spied upon us 24/7.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.

To me, this is not an information age. It's an age of networked intelligence, it's an age of vast promise.

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

It is not enough to wire the world if you short-circuit the soul. Technology without heart is not enough.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.

So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.

Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.

"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

The most human thing about us is our technology.

We already knew that kids learned computer technology more easily than adults, It is as if children were waiting all these centuries for someone to invent their native language.

In the end the question is: Who is to be master, man or his machines? As long as the control over technology rests primarily on economic calculation, the victor is not likely to be man.

With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land.

The ethical debates are like stones in a stream. The water runs around them. You haven't seen any biological technologies held up for one week by any of these debates.

As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable.

It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.

I am all for the iPad, but trust me - smelling it will get you nowhere.

To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration.

I'm an explorer by nature, and being an entrepreneur allows me to explore new opportunities and technologies. And that's the best part of it.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes.

I'd say we [Apple Inc.] are the most creative of the technology companies and definitely the most artist-friendly. Almost everyone in the music business uses a Mac and everyone has an iPod.

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

Accessibility drives traffic and growth in technology. That's a proven trend in technology.

Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.

Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.