Quotes About Technology

My computer kept beating the pants off me at chess, until I discovered that it was no match against me at kickboxing.

Hooked on Internet? Help is a just a click away.

What do you call a doctor that fixes websites? A URLologist.

What do you call a doctor that fixes websites? WebMD.

You can't take something off the Internet — it's like taking pee out of a pool.

Emails we can read, say no to 'send a receipt', mark as unread, categorise, label and put in a folder whilst drinking tea and thinking about other things. It's hard work making the right noises and facial expressions in response to an in-person reminder.

It's not a bug — it's an undocumented feature.

Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy disk?

Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.

If Bill Gates had a dime for every time Windows crashes… oh, wait a minute, he already does.

Why did the programmer cross the road? To get coffee — why else would one be outside?

a sea of artificial lights has extinguished the stars and drowned the nights

It was a hard sell, since he's a database person, and as far as I've seen, once those database worms eat into your brain, it's hard to ever get anything practical done again. To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

A guide to turning your clocks back in November: * Smartphone: Leave it alone to do its magic * Sundial: Move one house to the left * Oven: You'll need a Masters in Electronic Engineering, or a hammer * Car radio: Not worth it, wait six months

I never liked riding in helicopters because there's a fair probability that the bottom part will get going around as fast as the top part.

You find out who your real friends are when your autocorrect mixes up your and you're.

Home is where the wi-fi connects automatically.

Leaf-blowers: Loudly making yardwork someone else's problem since the 1960s.

Se é isto que a civilização tem para oferecer ao homem, então mil vezes o estado selvagem, a nudez e os uivos, mil vezes viver no deserto e na brenha, no covil e na caverna, em vez de trucidado pela máquina e pelo Abismo!

Attel Malagate (the Woe) Howard Alan Treesong Viole Falushe Kokor Hekkus (the Killing Machine) Lens Larque

Even in this high-tech age, the low-tech plant continues to be the key to nutrition and health.

the word algorithm was derived from al Khwarizm

Under the widespread influences from the paper and printing, gunpowder and firearms, and the spread of the navigational compass and other maritime equipment, Europeans experienced a Renaissance, literally a rebirth, but it was not the ancient world of Greece and Rome being reborn: It was the Mongol Empire, picked up, transferred, and adapted by the Europeans to their own needs and culture

as Google CEO Larry Page put it in his 2014 TED talk: "The main thing that has caused companies to fail, in my view, is that they missed the future.