Quotes About Technology

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

Shooting in 3D hasn't really affected the way I work as an actor that much. Maybe that's not a good thing. Maybe I'm not being diligent enough.

I will ignore all ideas for new works and engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvement I see no further hope.

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

Contemporary industrial society is now characterised more than ever by "the need for stupefying work where it is no longer a real necessity."

I would love to have access to a company like Caterpillar. I would make all their stuff remote controlled and work ten times as fast.

You might be a redneck if...you bought a VCR so you could tape wrestling while you are at work.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

I can't fax you my love, I can't email my heart.

By 1960 work will be limited to three hours a day.

The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field.

We seem to be the only software company for girls that is pushing science and getting away from stereotypical behavior.

People have taken technology so far, to the point where music is almost sterile these days.

We saw - we conducted the experiment. I mean, it's been done. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. We saw Apple without Steve Jobs. We saw Apple with Steve Jobs. Now, we're gonna see Apple without Steve Jobs.

Steve was perfectly aware of the Dynabook. That was one of the reasons he wanted me to come to Apple.

Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs founded Apple Inc, which set the computing world on its ear with the Macintosh in 1984.

Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.

Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 - he's got a long memory - they said no and Bill Gates said yes.

My acronym is WWSJD: What Would Steve Jobs Do?

Steve Jobs was my hero.