Quotes About Technology

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand.

This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.

I think that audio and video over the internet in the sense of teleconferencing and telephone calls. Maybe we'll actually have picture phone through your work station.

We know that defence work results in more than great defence hardware - it can drive innovation and advances in all areas of our life.

The human worker will go the way of the horse.

Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.

Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.

Microsoft has had many, many successful products. I'm committed to one company. This is the industry I've decided to work in.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

The issue of carbon is one area where we really need to work together and if people don't have the technology they need, that technology needs to be made available and affordable.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

Technology should do the hard work so people can do the things that make them the happiest in life.

When it comes to being a techie, I'm always precise about the things that I want to know. I love understanding how things work.

Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.

We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.

People say sometimes, "You work in the fastest-moving industry in the world." I don't feel that way. I think I work in one of the slowest. It seems to take forever to get anything done.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.