Technology Quotes - Page 8

• It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

  William Gibson

  Moving, Leaving, Levels

  William Gibson (2014). “Burning Chrome”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Different, Machines, Want

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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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• There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life.

  Rene Dubos

  Men, Civilization, Demon

  "A God Within". Book by René Dubos, 1972.

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• The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and storing it in large enough quantities to keep horses and cows alive through the winter. All we know is that the technology of hay was unknown to the Roman Empire but was known to every village of medieval Europe. Like many other crucially important technologies, hay emerged anonymously during the so-called Dark Ages.

  Freeman Dyson

  Horse, Dark, Winter

  "Infinite in All Directions" by Freeman Dyson, Ch. 8, (p. 135), 1988.

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• I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Thinking, Giving, Want

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

  Clifford Stoll

  Internet Users, Telephones, Internet

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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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• The world is coming to an end in 1950.

  Henry Adams

  World, Ends, Coming To An End

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• The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.

  Carol Ann Duffy

  Feelings, Texting, Way

  "Carol Ann Duffy: 'Poems are a form of texting'". Interview with Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2011.

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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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• We are all frustrated with computers, all the time... But we also always develop a relationship with computers these days - something my parents never had... there%u2018s always a kind of negotiation, sometimes you are in tune with it and other times you are fighting with it.

  Wade Guyton

  Fighting, Parent, Frustrated

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• Nobody thinks about technical issues anymore because cameras or camera phones take care of that automatically. On the other hand, you still have the option of controlling every technical aspect. It's the most accessible, democratic medium available in the world.

  Martin Parr

  Thinking, Phones, Hands

  "An Interview with Martin Parr – “Boundaries Merely Exist in People's Minds” (2007)". Interview with Maarten Dings, Joachim Naudts, www.americansuburbx.com. May 17, 2010.

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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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• 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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• With the arrival of the new comes the need to overcome fascination with novelty in order to approach substance and sophistication - a sophistication born of subtlety and depth of perception, not complexity and perceived virtuosity.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Order, Perception, Substance

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• Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images.

  Eduardo Paolozzi

  Doctors, Order, World

  Eduardo Paolozzi (1971). “Eduardo Paolozzi”

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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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• The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Past, Bigger, Stills

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• Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

  John Perry Barlow

  Government, Asking, Politics

  "The Guardian view on internet privacy: it’s the psychology, stupid". www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2018.

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• Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.

  Donald Lambert

  Artist, Smell, Creative

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• The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

  Charles Babbage

  Time, People, Next

  Charles Babbage (1841). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.8

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• The key to success for everything in business, science and technology is never to follow the others.

  Masaru Ibuka

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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