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Quotes About Technology

I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
~ Laurie Anderson
Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly.
~ Loretta Lux
My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together.
~ Michael J. Massimino
Cyber-related risks are a global threat of bloodless war. India can work towards giving world a shield from the threat of cyber warfare.
~ Narendra Modi
Internet's been down most of the day [at work]. Doing research by just asking everyone what we remember to be true. What could possibly go wrong?
~ Rachel Maddow
In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose labor force will work for the lowest wage.
~ Robert Kuttner
Skilled workers historically have been ambivalent toward automation, knowing that the bodies it would augment or replace were theoccasion for both their pain and their power.
~ Shoshana Zuboff
If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.
~ Unknown
You really can't blame the military for wanting to go to war [in Iraq]. They've got all these new toys and they want to know whether they work or not.
~ Andy Rooney
I just want to keep creating stuff, work regularly and learn how to use a computer properly.
~ Unknown
Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.
~ Paul Virilio
My life and creative work are justified and completed by Blade Runner.
~ Philip K. Dick
Laptop computers dramatically increased the time people spend doing work. (The internet dramatically decreased it, so we're even).
~ Seth Godin
One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.
~ Steve Jobs
We have eco-friendly shrimp. We can make them; we have that technology. But we can never have an eco-friendly all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet. It doesn't work.
~ Barton Seaver
The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work, and a Wiser World
~ Bernard Lietaer
No computer network with pretty graphics can ever replace the salespeople that make our society work.
~ Clifford Stoll
The important thing about security systems isn't how they work, it's how they fail.
~ Cory Doctorow
Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.
~ Douglas Adams
Being confronted with the realization that work you intended to benefit people is being used against them has a radicalizing effect.
~ Edward Snowden
You know, I am sorry for the poor fellows that haven't got labs to work in.
~ Ernest Rutherford
Twitter has been my life's work in many senses. It started with a fascination with cities and how they work, and what's going on in them right now.
~ Jack Dorsey
Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
~ Stephen Covey
More than any other modern tool, computers are a total mystery to their users. Most people never open them up to fix them or to see how they work.
~ Clive Thompson