Technology Quotes - Page 7

• Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet.

  Douglas Adams

  "Astro Teller: Why we developed Google Glass" by Astro Teller, www.cnn.com. June 4, 2014.

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• Paintings! They're like TV, but they don't move.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Moving, Tvs, Painting

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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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• It's like when IBM drove a lot of innovation out of the computer industry before the microprocessor came along. Eventually, Microsoft will crumble because of complacency, and maybe some new things will grow. But until that happens, until there's some fundamental technology shift, it's just over.

  Steve Jobs

  Innovation, Microsoft, Fundamentals

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.47, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

  Werner Herzog

  Communication, Phones, Solitude

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, en.wikiquote.org. 2002.

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• The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

  Steve Jobs

  Television, Pieces, Unintended Consequences

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• What's your personal computer, anyways? Your personal computer should be something that's always on your person.

  Bill Joy

  Computer, Should, Persons

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• There can be infinite uses of the computer and of new age technology, but if teachers themselves are not able to bring it into the classroom and make it work, then it fails.

  Nancy Kassebaum

  Education, Teacher, Failure

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• For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident appendix (1986)

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• Television won't last because people will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night.

  Darryl F. Zanuck

  Tired, Night, People

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• Straight lines don't exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is that all the lines and forms have at least a slight curve.

  Marissa Mayer

  Curves, Lines, Logos

  "Yahoo rolls out its new logo" by Heather Kelly, www.cnn.com. September 6, 2013.

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• Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Educational, War, Independent

  1964 UnderstandingMedia, ch.33.

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• When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines (people), essentially making the entire network their computer.

  Scott McNealy

  People, Machines, Information

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• God never made his work for man to mend.

  John Dryden

  Fitness, Work, Exercise

  Epistle 'To my honoured kinsman John Driden' l. 92

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• Nothing you see on the Internet is mine unless it comes from one of my albums, books, HBO specials, or appeared on my website.

  George Carlin

  Book, Hbo, Albums

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• The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

  Clifford Stoll

  Internet Users, Telephones, Internet

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• The world is coming to an end in 1950.

  Henry Adams

  World, Ends, Coming To An End

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• People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it occupies the mind undemandingly.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Stress, People, Mind

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• Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO is the answer.

  Erik Naggum

  Microsoft, Answers, Linux

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• I am full of admiration for the technologists who have developed all sorts of gadgets for the purpose of improving communications. However, I believe that all these fascinating machines are complementary to, and not substitutes for, books and the printed word.

  Prince Philip

  Believe, Book, Communication

  "Do Books Matter?". Book edited by Brian Baumfield, 1973.

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• Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Fall, Two, Microsoft

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• You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers.

  Walter Lippmann

  Flower, Inspire, Machines

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “A Preface to Politics”

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• I thought the iPhone was great, but this takes it to a new level - simply because it's eight times the size of the iPhone, as big as a reasonably-sized sketchbook... Anyone who likes drawing and mark-making will like to explore new media.

  David Hockney

  Media, Drawing, Iphone

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• Science is supposedly the method by which we stand on the shoulders of those who came before us. In computer science, we all are standing on each others' feet.

  Gerald J. Popek

  Feet, Computer, Shoulders

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• The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.

  John Spencer

  Real, Cutting, Research

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