Quotes About Technology

Because when the law implicitly or explicitly limits internal competition and bars new entrants, businesses have little, if any, incentive to innovate. As a result, regulated businesses—which include public utilities, air travel, defense, health care, and food and drugs—have fallen dangerously far behind in adopting exponential technologies. Once the disruptors do find a way in, collapse is that much more sudden.

Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

Social media is a time-suck. Read a friggin' book once in a while.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!

That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they really hate is lousy programmers.

Ethics change with technology.

Never tell a computer to forget it.

I think computer science, by and large, is still stuck in the Modern age.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water.

Packets don't lie.

The sad fact was, most police departments didn't have the money to make use of all the fancy technology available now. Even when DNA was available from a bloody murder weapon, a rape kit, it typically gathered dust in some evidence room until the case was headed to trial, if it ever went. But

The autos alone remained to conquer space.

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and kerosene and coal stoves -- they're good to have but the trouble is, folks get to depend on 'em.

If my response seems slow when asked a question, I always explain: 'It is because I have numerous files and subfiles to sort through in order to retrieve the info . . . please stand by. Help . . . my computer needs more memory!

With computers, e-mail, you don't hear an actual voice, but you catch a tone in the words on the screen.

The computer is a cool medium. . . . you can keep things crisp, refrigerated in a way.

The physical universe and its buzzing machinery, its fantastical scenery.

CNN. I hate how swiftly the world moves now, how glib everyone has become. We need to think more, not more quickly.

He had sometimes thought that if she had the option to be nothing but a brain in a jar, that would be fine with her.

I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.

Kids in my history class pulled out their cell phones and turned them on. I did the same, and as we all lifted our heavy backpacks, the doors of every classroom clanked open and out flowed the river of students with phones clapped to their ears. Soon the quad was a sea of backpacks and people staring nervously into space as they had conversations with people who weren't there.