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Quotes About Technology

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.
~ Robert Solow
[I]nside every computer, there is a hidden man being bored.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Are you living in a computer simulation?
~ Nick Bostrom
Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?
~ Tao Lin
The trouble with the Internet is that it's replacing masturbation as a leisure activity.
~ Patrick Murray
We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.
~ Peter Ustinov
The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.
~ Philip Emeagwali
By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.
~ Ray Kurzweil
Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?
~ Clifford Stoll
The computer is the new fireplace, everyone in the family gathers around the digital hearth for warmth.
~ Amy Poehler
If India is computer, Congress is its default program.
~ Rahul Gandhi
The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.
~ Buffy Sainte-Marie
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
~ Norman Ralph Augustine
Competition is always a fantastic thing, and the computer industry is intensely competitive.
~ Bill Gates
The only thing God didn't do to Job was give him a computer.
~ I. F. Stone
There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.
~ Bertrand Meyer
When I was in prison, a Colombian drug lord, offered me $5 million in cash to manipulate a computer system so that he would be released. I turned him down.
~ Kevin Mitnick
There's more technology in your car than there is in your computer. It's got thousands of parts in it. It's extremely sophisticated, all that robotics.
~ Jennifer Granholm
Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
~ Larry Wall
I never use a computer.
~ Andrew Wiles
We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins
~ Ellen Ullman
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
~ Robert Orben
The computer is really like a pencil, you know. It used to be. The pencil can do anything you want to, but you have to do it, and the same is with the computer.
~ Massimo Vignelli
You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.
~ Steve Jobs