Quotes About Technology

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.

The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.

Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern.

I think people who write programs do have at least a glimmer of extra insight into the nature of God... because creating a program often means that you have to create a small universe

Technology is lust removed from nature.

Having rationally endeavored to control nature, is he not now becoming the slave of the objects which he makes?

I actually think that history has fed off the restlessness of cyber space, of kind of the frantic, segmented nature of the way we lead our lives. People want to be connected.

Nature abhors the vacuum tube.

Short form media is reductionist by nature.

Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.

I'm a big fan of science fiction, animation, and things of that nature. Other worlds and that type of stuff.

I think these things social networks are going to have some legs,and yet there's a faddishness, a faddish nature about anything that basically appeals to younger people.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

As expected, you get his machine. Someday, even the "call of nature" will be answered by a machine.

I am not convinced within myself that to its core and as a whole, humanity has, as some like to assume, progressed a great deal over the millennia. Human technology? Of course. Human beings? Hardly.

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.