Quotes About Technology

Plus it'll triple your assimilation rate over anything filtered through the senses. Perfect for porn.

Nobody used an industrial vortex engine to run kitchen appliances.

and besides, positing universe as program didn't seem to answer the Big Questions so much as kick them down the road another order of magnitude.

Grey syndrome.

And if the best toys do end up in the hands of those who've never forgotten that life itself is an act of war against intelligent opponents, what does that say about a race whose machines travel between the stars?

Here in the dusk of the twenty-first century it was so easy to confuse murder with the amputation of a fingertip.

We're the goddamned Kalashnikovs of thinking meat.

Human nature was becoming an assembly-line edit, Humanity itself increasingly relegated from production to product.

What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots? But

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I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.

Technology is a stunted thing in benign environments, it never thrived in any culture gripped by belief in natural harmony. Why invent fusion reactors if your climate is comfortable, if your food is abundant? Why build fortresses if you have no enemies? Why force change upon a world that poses no threat?

And frankly, if IT isn't helping you operate how you want—and need—to operate, you are wasting money. There is no chance that your IT investments will lead to strategic benefits.

In a global, digital economy, if IT is not a strategic asset, it's a strategic liability.

From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.

En cuanto pulso el botón del mando a distancia, me encuentro frente a uno de esos especialistas que aparecen en todos los noticiarios. En los viejos tiempos, los parroquianos solían reunirse en las cafeterías. Ahora se reúnen en los platós de televisión.

People keep giving me rings. But I think a small death ray might be more practical.

The Internet is just bringing all kinds of information into the home. There's just a lot of distraction, a lot of competition for the parent's voice to resonate in the children's ears.

Hate the way if people have a problem they type it into their computers, and scream it out to the world and wait for the world to give them stupid, dangerous advice.

That whole cellular idea is idiotic. Who wants to carry around a phone all the time? I don't want people calling me wherever I am.

If television once could be seen as ranking among a number of vehicles for conveying expression or information from which we could choose, we no longer have that choice: the televisual has become an intrinsic and determining element of our cultural formation.

We need to remain alert to what happens to the body when it is mediatised. Too often, the mediatised body is an anaesthetised body. I would be the last person to argue that the body signifies at some basic level that precedes or transcends its cultural inscriptions. Nevertheless, there is an ethical imperative not to conflate the body with its representations and mediations, but to remember that there is an actual body there somewhere, experiencing the consequences of what is being done to it.

There are no certainties in life—not even death and taxes if we assign a nonzero probability to the invention of technologies that let us upload the contents of our brains into a cloud-computing network and the emergence of a future society so public-spirited and prosperous that the state can be funded with charitable donations.

Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.