Quotes About Technology

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.

Contact light.

Did you know I took the first space selfie during Gemini 12 mission in 1966? BEST SELFIE EVER

What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.

If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger.

iPhones compute more than what we had for Apollo but if I throw them in the air will they do a star sighting?

Only a large-volume market like space travel can attack the barrier of high costs.

It was designed to have an impact on the stalemate over Mutually Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union. Us reaching the moon convinced Gorbachev and other leaders that the Soviet Union couldn't compete with the U.S., so they revised their agenda. But people have short memories.

You don't have good grammar when you type with your fists.

We respond to societal issues with quick technical fixes that address symptoms rather than with systemic solutions. As a consequence, we are hitting the limits to symptom-focused fixes—that is, limits to solutions that respond to problems with more technological gadgets rather than by addressing the problems' root causes.

Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.

It is not that present-day man is capable of greater evil than the man of antiquity or the primitive. He merely has incomparably more effective means with which to realize his propensity to evil.

In fact, the terrors that stem from our elaborate civilization may be far more threatening than those that primitive people attribute to demons. The

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

None of Lucy's circle used their phones to actually make a call.

rotary-dial telephone

Not that Cody replied. In fact, he hadn't acknowledged even receiving any of the texts or e-mails she'd sent in the past hour. She speculated that he was out of cell phone range, busy with something, or simply unresponsive and rude. All three were distinct possibilities. She began to understand why Larry Olson, Cody's former partner, became so frustrated with him.

She swallowed the last of her cup of decaf and leaned forward to her laptop and keyed in the passwords for ViCAP—one for the department, one for her personally—and followed the prompts and she was in.

An Introduction to Database Systems

Digital Minimalism A philosophy of technology use in which you focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.

Simply put, humans are not wired to be constantly wired.

The urge to check Twitter or refresh Reddit becomes a nervous twitch that shatters uninterrupted time into shards too small to support the presence necessary for an intentional life.

Digital minimalism definitively does not reject the innovations of the internet age, but instead rejects the way so many people currently engage with these tools.