Good Technology quotes: Best famous quotes about Technology
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. – Andy Grove
Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster. – Andy Grove
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. – Andy Grove
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. – Orrin Hatch
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image. – Stephen Hawking
In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, “Please cut off a nanosecond and send it over to me.” – Grace Murray Hopper
At the end of about a week, I called back and said, “I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?” – Grace Murray Hopper
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. – Elbert Hubbard
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. – Aldous Huxley
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. – Clive James
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. – Penn Jillett
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. – Mitchell Kapor
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. – Alan Kay
The computer is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated. – Alan Kay
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. – John F. Kennedy
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. – John F. Kennedy
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it’s too expensive to change the interface. – Jaron Lanier
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. – Jaron Lanier
We’re making a major move of the Internet, and runway.polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business. – Ralph Lauren
You affect the world by what you browse. – Tim Berners-Lee
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. – Tim Berners-Lee
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools. – Marshall McLuhan
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. – Scott McNealy
Computers shouldn’t be unusable. You don’t need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights. – Scott McNealy
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being. – John Stuart Mill
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. – Walter Mossberg
If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they’d think it was a garage-door opener. – Walter Mossberg
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. – Edward R. Murrow
People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans. – Ralph Nader
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. – Georges Pompidou
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. – Lawrence Clark Powell
Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed; it is the same as it has always been, since Callimachus administered the great library in Alexandrea. – Lawrence Clark Powell
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. – Carl Sagan
We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. – Carl Sagan
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. – E. F. Schumacher
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. – B. F. Skinner
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. – Adam Smith
Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. – Carrie P. Snow
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea – massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it. – Gene Spafford
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. – John Spencer
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. – Gertrude Stein
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. – Bruce Sterling
The Internet is a telephone system that’s gotten uppity. – Clifford Stoll
Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you’re no longer hungry, but you haven’t been nourished. – Clifford Stoll
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users? – Clifford Stoll
Men have become the tools of their tools. – Henry David Thoreau
Microsoft isn’t evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. – Linus Torvalds
The Linux philosophy is ‘Laugh in the face of danger’. Oops. Wrong One. ‘Do it yourself’. Yes, that’s it. – Linus Torvalds
A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop? – Donald Trump
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. – Larry Wall
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. – Larry Wall
It’s [the internet] like the flu – it just spreads like crazy. – Jack Welch
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. – Alfred North Whitehead
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. – Meg Whitman
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. – Oscar Wilde
You can’t expect to hit the jackpot if you don’t put a few nickels in the machine. – Flip Wilson
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. – Frank Lloyd Wright
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