Technology Quotes

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time.

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

You‘ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

Humans are the reproductive organs of technology.

Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

In technology, we spend so much time experimenting, fine-tuning, getting the absolute cheapest way to do something - so why aren't we doing that with social policy?

Twitter is not a technology. It's a conversation and it's happening with or without you.

I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.

The gains from technology must be channeled to a broader base of the population than has benefited so far.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network.

New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

Technology fuels economy, unfortunately in today’s world it’s the fuel that drags economy

The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.

While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology.

[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.

To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush - one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us.

The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.

Computer : a million morons working at the speed of light.

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

By learning to create technology girls learn to speak up...

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.

We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.

Ten million new millionaires will be created by 2016, and you can become one of them - especiall y if you are in direct selling, technology or home-based business.

People envision [looking inside the brain] as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into the bloodstream.

The inside of a computer is as dumb as hell but it goes like mad!

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

Clear content, simple navigation and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.

Looking closer can make something beautiful

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

We're changing the world with technology.

It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.