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Quotes About Technology

Megahertz: This is really, really big hertz.
~ Dave Barry
On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
~ K. Eric Drexler
Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.
~ Douglas Trumbull
Think of the computer as a spiritual space for thinking.
~ John Maeda
Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.
~ Unknown
I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.
~ Katie Holmes
I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.
~ Roberta Williams
The computer provides the only way to give students a real foundation in 21st-century skills.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
Inevitably the machines must win, but there is still a long way to go before a human on his or her best day is unable to defeat the best computer.
~ Garry Kasparov
Bandwidth grows at least three times faster than computer power.
~ George Gilder
The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.
~ Hal Abelson
If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.
~ Roberta Williams
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and no-one dares criticize it.
~ Unknown
Things involved with a computer fill me with a childlike terror. Now, if it were a nice ogre or some such I'd be more in my element.
~ Unknown
You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
~ Walter Isaacson
I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer.
~ Liam Neeson
I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.
~ Iris Apfel
It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you're not playing games.
~ Jane McGonigal
Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
~ Stan Kelly-Bootle
I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.
~ John Rhys-Davies
Things have changed so much now. Everything is downloaded onto computers. I'm not a computer-savvy guy, but with downloading the movie industry has changed.
~ Anthony Hopkins
Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.
~ Bill Gates
My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses
~ Bill Murray
The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.
~ Sharon Begley