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Quotes About Technology

I don't know whether machine translation will eventually get good enough to allow us to browse people's websites in different languages so you can see how they live in different countries.
~ Tim Berners-Lee
Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.
~ Isaac Asimov
If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.
~ Rob Pike
The good news in investing is there are no HR problems. If there are no humans, there are no problems!
~ Mohnish Pabrai
Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen.
~ Bill Gates
At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
~ Rudy Rucker
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
~ George Orwell
My goal wasn't to make a ton of money. It was to build good computers.
~ Steve Wozniak
Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.
~ Dimebag Darrell
A good story remains a good story, whether it is on glossy paper or a mobile phone display, is carved into marble tablets or appears as a Bild headline.
~ Mathias Dopfner
If I have one technology tip of the day, it's this: No matter how good the video on YouTube is, don't read the comments, just don't, because it will make you hate all humans.
~ Matt Groening
What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
~ Meg Whitman
I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.
~ Brian Eno
Selling through the internet seems to be a very good idea. There are a million areas that we can go to.
~ Jeremy Clarkson
Google understood that if you're just a search engine, people assume you're a very, very good search engine.
~ Rory Sutherland
A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment?
~ Donald A. Norman
In five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore. Maybe a big screen in your workspace, but not a tablet as such. Tablets themselves are not a good business model.
~ Thorsten Heins
Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
I want to know what good is a web search engine that returns 324,909,188 'matches' to my key word. That's like saying, "Good news, we've located the product you're looking for. It's on Earth.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.
~ Terry Riley
Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.
~ Mark Skousen
Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.
~ Clay Shirky
So much information lacks a good way to store it, especially when it's all digital; sometimes it requires old technology to go back and retrieve it.
~ Douglas Coupland
Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.
~ Larry Ellison