Quotes About Technology

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be net neutrality.

Practice safe text — use commas and never miss a period.

In the nineteenth century, among other things, they didn't have telephones. You can become the victim of telephones. That's why I hate talking on the phone. Sometimes I put it in the refrigerator.

Unfortunately at this point I was interrupted by that dubiously time-saving device the telephone.

How come wrong numbers are never busy?

As for the picture — I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

#WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

Recently, photography has become... mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.

Each week in the sample of 3,500 homes: 16 hours were spent reading newspapers, 25 hours watching TV, and 47 hours listening to the radio. If radio is dead, they'll have a hard time convincing it that it should lie down.

Radio travels 186,000 miles a second, the same speed as light, or around the world about eight times a second, so radio is making the world smaller and better acquainted. Last month President Coolidge sat in his study and talked to millions of Americans by radio, and nothing is as intimate of personality as the voice.

The radio is another wonderful discovery. It has made the world as small as a house.

When television came roaring in after the war they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why — television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better."

Almost everyone, it seems, at first glance expects television to dig radio's final resting place.

With radio the whole world is brought to your own fireside.

The radio is, indeed, a great blessing of the modern times. It has become a necessity now.

The mad scientist was once only a creature of gothic romance; now he is everywhere, busy torturing atoms and animals in his laboratory.

The microwave oven is the consolation prize in our struggle to understand physics.

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

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

To make more machines for more people to struggle and buy, to catch up with the great mad procession of the world struggling to get all out of life that was in it --Ah! Why would they not see? Why must so many be blind?

When my daughter was born, we videotaped the birth. Now when she makes me angry, I just hit rewind and put her back in.

The function of a good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.

many adults continue to do animistic things even in cultures that do not vigorously encourage them to do so. Naming cars and swearing at recalcitrant computers are common examples of the personalizing of the world – even if, when pressed, people insist they do not really expect a positive response from inanimate machines