Quotes About Technology

The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.

If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.

Modern life cannot be constructed on . . . physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.

Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.

To cross the seas, to traverse the roads, and to work machinery by galvanism, or rather electro-magnetism, will certainly, if executed, be the most noble achievement ever performed by man.

In digital, you may have your big launch, but then you continue to work, and you continue to innovate and continue to enhance your platforms as you go along.

If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.

One connection I see between the work I did on philosophy and my work on technology is that both communities tend to mystify and create an atmosphere of complexity.

Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

Can I work with corporations? Are there good corporations doing incredible cutting edge research and development? Absolutely they are. And we should be proud of them.

The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

Man has learned to fly like the birds. Now all he has to do is work out how to do it quietly.

Nothing wrong with computer as things. They can work wonders in communications and business and medicine and everything else.

Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools.

Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.

The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves.

Starships are all work and no fun.

It is easy to sympathize with the MIS staffs around the world, I mean who hasn't lost work due to Windows or a Microsoft application crashing?

Twitter is really a hyper-distilled version of how the internet should work - short bursts of relatively useful information.

The computer seems easy because Apple makes the products so easy to use at home. It's the simple things, like getting the TV set up or getting the speakers to work. That drives me crazy.

When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.