Quotes About Technology

Developers are even worse than networking people. Show me a developer who isn't crashing production systems, and I'll show you one who can't fog a mirror. Or more likely, is on vacation.

In one case, we even found a ticket that Wes put in over ten years ago as a junior engineer, referring to some task for a machine that has been long since decommissioned.

Something is really screwy in the world when I'm finding reasons to thank Development and Security in the same day.

Alert fatigue is the single biggest problem we have right now…We need to be more intelligent about our alerts or we'll all go insane.

DevOps isn't about automation, just as astronomy isn't about telescopes.

Something seems wrong in a world where half the e-mail messages sent are urgent.

Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.

They say that computers can't think, but I have one that does. It thinks it's broken.

Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more precious and desirable--and in the close confines of starship life, respect for another's privacy had become a powerful tradition.

That's the other thing I want to talk to you about," Johnson said. "As you've been talking, we've been scanning your brain. See that cerebral scanner on the ceiling—you know, the big light beam shining down on your head?

Why don't you call her?" "She doesn't answer," Chase said. "She may be somewhere that there's no cell phone service or she may have her phone turned off." He'd be embarrassed to say how many times he'd tried. That's what guilt—in other words, meddling—did to a man.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

A or Alpha worlds were aspected towards technology, with little to no magic. Beta worlds had magic as the norm -- with any technology being pretty unimportant. Gamma worlds had both.

I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.

If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can last—and no one can concentrate on anything—for longer than about two seconds.

Emoticon" is] one of the worst words ever--it deserves to die horribly in a head-on crash with infotainment .

Don't worry—my phone is password-protected Ed. Note: Dad's password=7734

They will work with vendors who have little or no funding, with products that start life as little more than a diagram on a whiteboard, and with technology gurus who bear a disconcerting resemblance to Rasputin.

It turns out our attitude toward technology adoption becomes significant—at least in a marketing sense—any time we are introduced to products that require us to change our current mode of behavior or to modify other products and services we rely on. In academic terms, such change-sensitive products are called discontinuous innovations. The contrasting term, continuous innovations, refers to the normal upgrading of products that does not require us to change behavior.

Technologies from a prior era, once the focal point of innovation, now become the scaffolding upon which next-generation innovation will build.

Ultimately the service that skeptics provide to high-tech marketers is to point continually to the discrepancies between the sales claims and the delivered product. These discrepancies, in turn, create opportunities for the customer to fail, and such failures, through word of mouth, will ultimately come back to haunt us as lost market share.

Visionaries are that rare breed of people who have the insight to match up an emerging technology to a strategic opportunity, the temperament to translate that insight into a high-visibility, high-risk project, and the charisma to get the rest of their organization to buy into that project. They are the early adopters of high-tech products.

The key point is that, in contrast with the technology enthusiast, a visionary focuses on value not from a system's technology per se but rather from the strategic leap forward such technology can enable.

Marketing falls prey to the crack between the technology enthusiast and the visionary by failing to discover, or at least failing to articulate, the compelling application that provides the order-of-magnitude leap in benefits. A