Quotes About Technology

Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.

Computer science doesn't know how to build complex systems that work reliably. This has been a well-understood problem since the very beginning of programmable computers.

WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.

If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.

I work a lot with a green screen, which is really time consuming. All the special effects are.

I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science background, so I approached things fairly analytically.

At forty, I was too old to work as a programmer myself anymore; writing code is a young person's job.

I will work and fight for stem cell research.

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

I like reading. I prefer not reading on my computer, because that makes whatever I am reading feel like work. I do not mind reading on my iPad.

Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.

I have to admit to not being the greatest technician, but stop motion animation gives me licence to create machines that wouldn't otherwise be possible - inventions that seem real and actually work.

The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.

In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is safer.

You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling.

I need my trusty Mac laptop to write. I can't work with anything else. I'm used to the feel of the keys. I also like, more than anything else, Apple's Pages.

If you work with any new technology, you have to expect that it's going to be a little problematic.

Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines.

The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.

I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human mechanism.

Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work!

There's no way to get around it; online dating is work. And some people are more skilled at this kind of communication than others.

The telephone is an antiquity - you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts work.

When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.