Browse our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous Technology sayings and Technology Quotes - Chapter 2
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.
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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 system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
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.
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.
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
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 typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?
I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.
A satellite has no conscience.
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
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.
Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Defect-free software does not exist.
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.
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
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.
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 protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
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.
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.
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.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.
What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.
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.
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
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.
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.
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.
YouTube is akin to having my own network.
Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
I don't mind if somebody texts me but I'm not a big texter, the things are too small. I don't mind if they text, '7 o'clock,' that's fine, that's logistics but, 'What's up?' Get real! Pick up a phone!
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.
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.
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.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
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