Quotes About Technology

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

Well, to aspiring writers, I would tell them that we live in a wonderful time where you're able to make your work visible, easily.

I can't be as confident about computer science as I can about biology. Biology easily has 500 years of exciting problems to work on. It's at that level.

We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.

We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books.

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Those who want to share their code can make products and share their work without additional legal risks.

To build a power plant and run lines to houses, to huts, to anything is a tremendous amount of work...how about...just giving them the service where they need it-on the roof of their hut.

People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.

The ultimate laziness is not using Perl. That saves you so much work you wouldn't believe it if you had never tried it.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

With computers we can work everything out from the beginning.

You know what I'm talking about. This business has changed. Flyers aren't pilots anymore, they're engineers. This is a college man's game. Our work is done. The pioneering is over.

Software work is the most complex that humanity has ever undertaken.

My particular focus at the moment is on the development of genetic algorithms and neural networks that work together to create computer architectural systems.

I think digital. I think digital and I was terrified about it for a long time. But I think digital because it gives so much more freedom to work with the actors.

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

The invisibility of work and workers in the digital age is as consequential as the rise of the assembly line and, later, the service economy.

Some of our writers are starting to incorporate elements of social media, etc. in the work itself, which is all for the good, I think - finding new ways of being poetic.

Today we no longer live in a way that is constrained by simple working or leisure environments - we travel, we work on laptops in coffee shops, we go out to dinner straight from work.

I want technology to work for me, and my readers. People get confused that technology comes first. The ideas come first. You need to use the medium.