Technology Quotes
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one.
Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.
Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.
The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop.
Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.
I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.
Technology & technicians, you can always buy with money; but the wealthiest person must build relationships.
With the most primitive means the artist creates something which the most ingenious and efficient technology will never be able to create.
We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.
Teachers need to integrate technology seamlessly into the curriculum instead of viewing it as an add-on, an afterthought, or an event.
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
It is dangerously destabilizing to have half the world on the cutting edge of technology while the other half struggles on the bare edge of survival.
I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.
Quantum computation is a distinctively new way of harnessing nature. It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.
If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.
It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.
You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge.
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.
A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention
Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?
The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.
Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.
It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.
Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions.
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.
So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.
We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.
Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.
