Quotes About Technology

Digital wisdom is made of recycled electrons that are meaningful until you pull the plug.

The information revolution will lead us through a knowledge revolution to the wisdom revolution.

The machine does not control the mind of man, though it affects the mind of man; it is the mind of man that can and should control the machine.

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk.

Twitter is not just for Journalists. You don't have to be a writer to Tweet.[Social Media]

Technology has no function except to save labor. Yet how often do we hear that the purpose of new capital formation is to create jobs?

Dominion over his environment was supposed to be a hallmark of man. Now, that dominion is almost wholly vicarious, derived from the past ingenuity of others. In urban and industrial communities it is never direct, physical or spontaneous. Our implements are at twelve removes and we may all live to live inside so many Thermos flasks. It may be well to remember how to use a pair of sticks and a stone.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

RAND scientists tried to tell their wives that the decision whether to buy or not to buy a washing machine was an 'optimization problem'.

overlapping Alcubierre space-time shields. They soaked in

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information.

For the Minuteman II missile, Texas Instruments had to design and produce twenty-two fairly standard types of circuits in integrated form; every one of those chips was readily adaptable to civilian computers, radio transmitters, and the like. A large number of the most familiar products of the microelectronic revolution, from the busy businessman's pocket beeper to the Action News Minicam ("film at eleven"), resulted directly from space and military development contracts.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

I've never been skydiving, but I have zoomed-in on Google Earth really fast.

Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water.

It was painful to consider that the nation which could produce the world's greatest battleships was unable under pressure to produce a single satisfactory torpedo boat.

He flicked a bored glance at the computer in her lap

he doubted the Americans would lend out either Jeremy Renner or their giant robots to get into a freezer.

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?