Quotes About Technology

Fusion is a bit cleaner than fission, but it still presents a major waste problem.

It's an open secret. Fusion isn't clean, and it probably never will be.

Epstein was one of thousands, if not millions, of people—undoubtedly mostly men—who've been suckered into thinking a machine was a potential date.

My computer terminal whistles at me: YOU HAVE MAIL. No shit, Sherlock, I always have mail. It's an existential thing: if I don't have mail it would mean that something is very wrong with the world

Nobody ever imagined a bunch of Orcs would steal a database table…

Some say the Internet is for porn but you know that in truth the Internet is for spam.

Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.

Accelerating to speeds faster than light was, of course, impossible. General relativity had made that clear enough back in the twentieth century. However, since then a number of ways of circumventing the speed limit had turned up; by now, there were at least six different known methods of moving mass or information from A to B without going through c.

The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)

programming is a job where Lovecraft meets tradecraft, all the time.

He stabs at the mouse mat with one finger and I wince, but instead of fat purple sparks and a hideous soul-sucking manifestation, it simply wakes up his Windows box. (Not that there's much difference.)

For programming is a job where Lovecraft meets tradecraft, all the time.

The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.

let slip the yapping chihuahuas of infowar

Then the screen comes on, showing a familiar menu on a blue background and I stare at it, transfixed, like a yokel who's never seen a television before. Because it's not a TV. It's a flat-screen PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition. They can't be that dumb. It's got to be a trap, I gibber to myself. Not even the clueless cannon-fodder-in-jumpsuits who staff any one of the movies on the shelf would be that dumb!

I don't mind going without clothes, but being without a microprocessor is truly stripping down. It's like asking a sorcerer to surrender his magic wand, or a politician to forswear his lies.

This has serveral consequences, starting with screwing over most cryptography algorithms--translation: all your bank account are belong to us--

Starships are all work and no fun.

butcher, baker, fusion-reactor maker.

Some people can mess up anything, and computational demonology adds a new and unwelcome meaning to terms like "memory leak" and "debugger.

I'm a child of the wired generation, unlike some of the suits hereabouts who have their secretaries print everything out and dictate their replies for an audio-typist to send.)

Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint.

the ads made me feel bilious and love-stricken, invaded and debauched by a coldly mechanical lust for whatever fetish the desire machines were pushing at their victims at any given instant.

Didn't they know that the only unhackable computer is one that's running a secure operating system, welded inside a steel safe, buried under a ton of concrete at the bottom of a coal mine guarded by the SAS and a couple of armoured divisions, and switched off? What did they think they were doing?