Technology Quotes - Page 10

• You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

  Laurie Anderson

  Stuff, Lows, Great Things

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• MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

  Henry Spencer

  Smell, Microsoft, Way

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• If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Buttons, Computer

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Suffering, Progress, Disease

  1921 Speech, 13 Oct.

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  Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Civilization, Religion

  "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Message of the Myth)". TV Mini-Series, June 22, 1988.

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• The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Science, Giving, Questions And Answers

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• In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

  Hugh Sidey

  World, May, Eras

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• The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Knowledge, Fog, Information

  "Working Profile; Helping the Library of Congress Fulfill Its Mission". Interview with Barbara Gamarekian, archive.nytimes.com. July 8, 1983.

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• Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.

  Eric Hoffer

  Moving, Skills, Religion

  1955 The Passionate State of Mind.

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• I don't own a computer. I have a nine-foot piano in my home to compose my messages. Why would I want a one-foot computer to do the same thing?

  Tori Amos

  Home, Piano, Feet

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• Technology has to be invented or adopted.

  Jared Diamond

  Adopted

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• I have some figures which compare the cost of one kilo of airplane compared to one kilo of rice. One kilo of airplane costs thirty thousand US dollars and one kilo of rice is seven cents. And if you want to pay for your one kilo of high-tech products with a kilo of rice, I don’t think we have enough.

  B. J. Habibie

  Money, Airplane, Thinking

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• Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

  J. G. Ballard

  Science, Thinking, Use

  Introduction to the French edition of "Crash", 1974.

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• The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Phones, Years, Lasts

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• Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

  Alan Watts

  Hands, People, Realizing

  Alan Watts (2010). “Tao: The Watercourse Way”, p.35, Souvenir Press

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• Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

  Scott McNealy

  Bananas, Shelves, Shelf Life

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• The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology but because of an expanding concept of what it means to be human.

  John Naisbitt

  Mean, Century, Expanding

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• Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life

  William J. Clinton

  America, Political, Networking

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• Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.

  Scott McNealy

  Talking, Would Be, Microsoft

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• The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

  Bill Gates

  Notebook, Matter, Stuff

  Bill Gates (2009). “Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy”, p.36, Hachette UK

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• Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

  Larry Wall

  Jurassic Park, Design, Coders

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• The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Patterns, Action, Social

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Thinking, Saving, Leisure

  "Good Work". Book by E.F. Schumacher, p. 25, 1985.

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• It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Soul, Rebel, Doe

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Television

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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