Quotes About Technology

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

The strangest problems often turn out to be misconfigured DNS. DNS

The vendor would also be unlikely to give permission to have the specifics documented in a book on system administration. Failures

Most network providers do not sell latency, just bandwidth.

When I hear someone touting the cloud as a magic-bullet for all computing problems, I silently replace "cloud" with "clown" and carry on with a zen-like smile.

I'm proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill

He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will create enzymes that would otherwise be created in chemical factories.

From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened.

So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers.

We can make aircrafts that can navigate a maze of hallways.

The iPhone is so easy to use and navigate - I'd be lost without it.

Development of space will improve life on Earth. Access to space is important for agriculture, humanitarian efforts, communications, and navigation.

For me, my phone is a one-stop shop; I do everything on my phone - email, browsing, listening to music, reading, navigation and using smart apps. Maps, I use that a lot. I think that's the best app ever.

We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future.

Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

Email cannot die in the near future because of its universal acceptance.

I have great faith in lasers, but no one's putting one near my eye.

I have always got my computer or phone nearby so that I can find out extra details about a certain subject.

I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.