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Quotes About Technology

We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them.
~ Isaac Asimov
Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.
~ Bruce Boxleitner
All problems in Computer Science can be solved by another level of indirection.
~ Unknown
iMac is next year's computer for $1,299, not last year's computer for $999.
~ Steve Jobs
The computer is very good for me; I can magnify my work very easily.
~ Jean Giraud
Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh*
~ Thom Yorke
Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
~ Alan Cooper
If computers take over, it will serve us right.
~ Alistair Cooke
The computer actually may have aggravated management's degenerative tendency to focus inward on costs.
~ Peter Drucker
I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!
~ Meg Cabot
Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.
~ Arthur Levitt Jr
The Internet? We are not interested in it
~ Bill Gates
Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.
~ Bill Gates
It used to be the program's purpose to instruct our computers; it became the computer's purpose to execute our programs.
~ Edsger Dijkstra
You never really get to touch anything that you're doing unless you print it out. I don't really enjoy making artwork on a computer because it doesn't seem like I've done anything.
~ Stanley Donwood
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
~ Isaac Asimov
You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.
~ Paul Kantner
I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
~ Christopher Plummer
My kids are in front of the computer 247 despite having all the parental control. There is no way to stop the flow of information. The flow of information is too fast and too much.
~ Kajol
The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.
~ Vance Packard
In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program.
~ Jon Postel
Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.
~ Stephen Hawking
More and more software would just increase the number of tasks that the computer would help solve.
~ Bill Gates
Thinking of the universe as a computer is controversial.
~ Seth Lloyd