Technology Quotes - Page 6

• 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.

  Wernher von Braun

  Mother, Boys, Long

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• It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

  Esther Dyson

  May, Firsts, Online

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• The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

  Northrop Frye

  Book, Men, Machines

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• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

  J. K. Rowling

  Trust, Halloween, Thinking

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

  Carl Sagan

  Motivational, Education, Ignorance

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.49, Ballantine Books

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• Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works.

  John Cleese

  Instruction, Impress, Engineers

  "Die Another Day". Interview with Nev Pierce, www.bbc.co.uk. November 20, 2002.

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• It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Framework, New Technology

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• I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.

  Brian Eno

  Computer, Driven, Tendencies

  "The Revenge of the Intuitive". www.wired.com. January 01, 1999.

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• You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

  Wim Crouwel

  Work, Design, Computer

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• C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?, www.stroustrup.com.

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• Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

  Norbert Wiener

  Slave Labor, Machines, Remember

  Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.

  Ivan Sutherland

  Glasses, Digital Revolution, Giving

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• The way to fly is to go straight up . . . Such a machine (the helicopter) will never compete with the aeroplane, though it will have specialized uses, and in these it will surpass the aeroplane. The fact that you can land at your front door is the reason you can't carry heavy loads efficiently.

  Emile Berliner

  Land, Doors, Flying

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• By 2025, 80 percent of the functions doctors do will be done much better and much more cheaply by machines and machine learned algorithms.

  Vinod Khosla

  Medicine, Doctors, Entrepreneur

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• Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Spring, Believe, Science

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.180, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

  Andy Grove

  Sunset, Internet Users, Significance

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• Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

  Steve Jobs

  Smart, People, Giving

  "Steve Jobs in 1994: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. January 17, 2011.

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• Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Space, Needs, Able

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• In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

  Alan Perlis

  Bird, Worms, Software

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• This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.

  Jonas Salk

  Beautiful, Men, Creative

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• If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.

  Freeman Dyson

  Gambling, Damnation, Would Be

  1979 Disturbing the Universe, ch.1.

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• 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.

  Robert X. Cringely

  Funny, Humor, Years

  "Noted from the field". "InfoWorld Magazine", Volume 11, Number 10, March 6, 1989.

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• Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into 'info haves' and 'info have-nots.' The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it's often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good.

  William J. Clinton

  Worry, Digital, Facts

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• Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

  Pablo Picasso

  Funny, Witty, Useless Stuff

  Quoted inWilliam Fifield, In Search of Genius (1982)

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• I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Rooms, Internet, Distracted

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