Quotes About Technology

The unintended consequence of abundance is that we are bombarded with more information and choices in a day than our ancestors received in a lifetime.

even computers can process only one piece of code at a time. When they "multitask," they switch back and forth, alternating their attention until both tasks are done.

[I am] not even two bites into breakfast, and there are already nearly 25 sites that are tracking me. I have navigated to a total of four.

A brilliant strategy, blockbuster product, or breakthrough technology can put you on the competitive map, but only solid execution can keep you there.

I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

Quantum computers that would boggle your mind, space elevators that raise heavy cargo through the air and into orbit, tourist trips to the moon, teleportation—all of these things will happen in the not-too-distant future.

Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.

We are now part of this giant machine where every second we have to take out a device and contribute our thoughts and opinions.

People are more comfortable learning about wine because now they can just Google, you know, 'Soave ' and say, 'Oh, O.K., cool.'

The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!

IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch ' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.

I am surprised by how not-adopted the video reply has been. What keeps other people from doing it, I think, is that they think a video comes across as 'I'm cool, look at how many e-mails I get.' That perception doesn't scare me, because I know who I am.

The development of social media, citizen journalism, and new technology has made it more difficult for the established media to simply ignore gun deaths in certain areas.

?loveški rod ni ve? skromen. Nima ?aš?enja. Je aroganten in poln lastne tehnologije. Stalno se zavaja s svojimi iluzijami, da obvladuje svoje stvari, in tako ustvarja kaos in še vedno ho?e videti, da je svet nemogo?e obvladati. Jemljemo od Zemlje in drug drugega. Uni?ujemo gozdove, oceane, in ozra?je. Drug drugega zasužnjujemo, mu?imo pretepamo, ponižujemo in morimo.

It's one of the most stable ignition elements for plasma weapons, for a start. They say a plasma gun made with Kragmeer ansidium has only a forty-five per cent malfunction rate.

Node.js (or, as it's more briefly called by many, simply "Node") is a server-side solution for JavaScript, and in particular, for receiving and responding to HTTP requests.

Only a technological age could condemn unborn generations to exist in it, as if man were mere protoplasm, without emotion or aspiration.

The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens, or the conquest of other planets, or the annihilation of half the world--in short, pretty nearly anything but the facing up to the integral and irredeemable nature of mankind--can bring about utopian situations. It is the old error of the externalization of evil.

Computers for the masses, not the classes.

Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.

United States spends more on pet grooming than it does on fusion research.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

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. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.