Quotes About Technology

The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no.

I wish the iPhone people would design one that's black and has two pieces, and it plugs into the wall and you can pick one piece up and talk into it. I tell you, the whole time I had one of those old-fashioned plug-in phones, not once did I misplace it.

Did you get the new iPhone yet? The iPhone that I have is outdated. It has two pieces and a hand crank.

New York City subways are now getting high speed Internet. How about some high speed subway trains?

At the Apple store, the people waiting in line for the iPhone 6 were trampled by the people waiting for the iPhone 7.

Now all of us can talk to the NSA -- just by dialing any number.

5 1/2 centuries after its 1.0 release, the book is a surprisingly robust piece of information technology. Sure, its memory is relatively tiny--one novel adds up to less than a megabyte. But it doesn't need charging, and it never crashes. Its interface is rapidly and intuitively navigable. The scroll never stood a chance.

If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet.

Apparently if you're enough of a power nerd, there is nothing that cannot be flowcharted.

Welcome to Facelessbook: an antisocial network.

Blue screen of death: she'd crashed his system. Oh, well. Boys were so unstable that way, full of buggy, self-contradictory code, pathetically unoptimized.

You know what Arthur C. Clarke said about technology and magic, right? Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

This wired generation is kind of cool.

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek ' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children with tablet computers, and I'm committed to doing whatever I can to speaking to whomever I can to send this signal - to pound this message home. Now is the time.

We really are living in an age of information overload. Google estimates that there are 300 exabytes (300 followed by 18 zeros) of human-made information in the world today. Only four years ago there were just 30 exabytes. We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us.

Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter.

Computers are Janus-faced, helping to create jobs even as they destroy jobs.

Firms adopt computers to gain a particular competitive advantage. Realizing computers' potential requires reorganizing work. As computers proliferate in the workplace, the jobs they create, destroy, and change are the byproduct of this work reorganization.

War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.