Quotes About Technology

I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.

Invention is the mother of necessities.

If necessity is the mother of invention, scientifically developed production is the mother of scientific research.

Every working mother struggles with the BlackBerry, knowing the boss can call.

When I had my daughter, Louisanna, two and a half years ago, I started recording every funny or sweet thing she said or did on my phone.

When a robot dies, you don't have to write a letter to its mother.

We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

Everybody's saying we've got to go 3D or virtual reality or choose your own adventure. But there are other ways forward. I don't think we're done with film by a long shot.

If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a source of energy.

Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.

The past was "built", the present is "assembled" & the future - "programmed"!

There seems to be a direct correlation between the spike in suicides by young people and the increase in cyberbullying amongst young people.

How do people relate to movies now, when they're on portable devices or streaming them? It's not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

Television saved the movies. The Internet is going to save the news business.

The most effective 3D movies I have ever seen are the animated movies because they are designed.

I travel fairly lightly because you have to these days. I always take a laptop and an iPod so I can watch movies and listen to music. And my Gameboy. That's a good time-killer.

The fundamental difference between books and movies is that the length of a book does not depend upon the capacity of the human bladder.

@BretEastonEllis 31 MarAfter watching the delirious Room 237 I realized that the worst thing happening to movies was the empowerment of the viewer via technology.

A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AI's will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.