Quotes About Technology

Every hacker is to some extent a rebel who lives by different standards and enjoys beating the system.

F___k being a script kiddie if you can avoid it — be a hacker.

Social engineering uses influence and persuasion to deceive people by convincing them that the social engineer is someone he is not, or by manipulation. As a result, the social engineer is able to take advantage of people to obtain information with or without the use of technology.

Take a moment and surf over to Panopticlick.com. This is a site built by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that will determine just how common or unique your browser configuration is compared to others, based on what's running on your PC or mobile device's operating system and the plug-ins you may have installed.

Il fattore umano è l'anello più debole della sicurezza

Byte or Get Bitten

Books make us see in a way that casual immersion in the Internet, and the quicksilver virtual world it offers, doesn't.

Apple isn't the world's greatest techno-innovator. Nowhere near it, in fact. Rather, it excels, in contrast, at rehashing other people's ideas.

I got to spend all of my time every day at work reading and editing papers about cutting-edge technical research and getting paid for it. Then I'd go home at night and turn what I learned into science fiction stories.

I think that somebody with the resources and innovation and the idea is going to come out of nowhere and come up with a successful space travel program.

What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' … A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.

The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.

Simon's insight is often reduced to "In a world of abundance, the only scarcity is human attention.

Not only did we fail to imagine what the web would become, we still don't see it today. We are oblivious to the miracle it has blossomed into. Twenty years after its birth the immense scope of the web is hard to fathom. The total number of web pages, including those that are dynamically created upon request, exceeds 60 trillion. That's almost 10,000 pages per person alive. And this entire cornucopia has been created in less than 8,000 days.

You'll simply plug into the grid and get AI as if it was electricity. It will enliven inert objects, much as electricity did more than a century past.

Because of technology everything we make is always in the process of becoming. Every kind of thing is becoming something else, while it churns from "might" to "is." All is flux. Nothing is finished. Nothing is done. This never-ending change is the pivotal axis of the modern world.

The problems of today were caused by yesterday's technological successes, and the technological solutions to today's problems will cause the problems of tomorrow.

Consumers say they don't want to be tracked, but in fact they keep feeding the machine with their data, because they want to claim their benefits. This

For better or worse, our lives are accelerating, and the only speed fast enough is instant.

At the rate AI technology is improving, a kid born today will rarely need to see a doctor to get a diagnosis by the time they are an adult." Medicine

robust intelligence may be a liability—especially if by "intelligence" we mean our peculiar self-awareness, all our frantic loops of introspection and messy currents of self-consciousness. We want our self-driving car to be inhumanly focused on the road, not obsessing over an argument it had with the garage.

Platforms are factories for services; services favor access over ownership. Clouds

Massive tracking and total surveillance is here to stay.