Quotes About Technology

In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's so much more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.

Although computer memory is no longer expensive, there's always a finite size buffer somewhere. When a big piece of news arrives, everybody sends a message to everybody else, and the buffer fills

Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.

In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s.

The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement

I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems

Ive never really been anywhere, and now I get to go everywhere. I just have to make sure theres enough memory on my computer to hold all my pictures.

XML is not a language in the sense of a programming language any more than sketches on a napkin are a language.

Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.

The radio of my youth ... is now a quaint memory replaced by computer hard drives.

If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders.

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

RAM: This gives guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest memory. That's important, because the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages.

Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.

Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been prepared with the help of a computer.

In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness.

With the fight scenes, they would take a video camera and shoot alongside the camera so we would piece it together on the computer and had an extremely rough cut of what we were doing.

Being able to break security doesn't make you a hacker anymore than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer.

The ARPAnet was the first transcontinental, high-speed computer network.

The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours.

The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.