Quotes About Technology

The design of good interfaces takes time and ingenuity.

The whole world organizes itself around the fact that people manage to get their awkward bodies in position to fuck, an achievement honored by toasters, tandems, and tax cuts.

their phones actually, trying to get inside them somehow,

I definitely love that all these car brands are coming out with hybrid forms of every car that they have. It's very awesome because I think it does make a difference, and it doesn't hurt that you save a lot of money on gas.

For better or worse, we're rewiring our brains for what the technology industry now calls "continuous partial attention.

In April 2014, a five-minute video by Gary Turk titled "Look Up" was posted on YouTube.

A weekday edition of the New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in 17th century England. —RICHARD SAUL WURMAN

I became obsessed with this idea of blurring the perimeter of the body, so you couldn't see where the skin ended and the near environment started.

I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.

Goals change, ideas of technology are transformed, but action always remains action. Action always seeks means to realize ends, and it is in this sense always rational and mindful of utility. It is, in a word, human.

It was the ideas of the classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age-old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvement and freed the genius of reformers and innovators from the straitjackets) of the guilds, government tutelage, and social pressure of various kinds. It was they that reduced the prestige of conquerors and expropriators and demonstrated the social benefits derived from business activity.

Local differences in the prices of commodities whose natures are technologically identical are to be explained on the one hand by differences in the cost of preparing them for consumption (expenses of transport, cost of retailing etc.) and on the other hand by the physical and legal obstacles that restrict the mobility of commodities and human beings.

It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.

God, don't they teach you how to spell these days? No, I answer. They teach us to use spell-check.

I asked her sister for a cell number, at least, but something tells me that 401-GO2-HELL is out of service.

whenever people start talking about curing too many things with science, I'm always glad bioethics wasn't

Well, there's always Nevada," Benny said. "You can buy anything from a hand laser to an atom bomb there.

the Aleph-Null campaign.

One rash person in the right place and earth could be a sterile cinder in seconds, but that's been more-or-less true for a century.

The brain isn't very much like a computer, although it doesn't do a bad job, considering that it's built by unskilled labor and programmed more by pure chance than anything else.

Wars in the past often accelerated social reform, provided technological benefits, even sparked artistic activity. This one, however, seemed tailor-made to provide none of these positive by-products.

While talking on the cube to them, I made a casual gesture, touching middle finger to cheekbone, that used to be phone code: 'Disregard this; someone may be listening.' Most of them returned the gesture.

Our country use satellites to spy on its own people?' 'Well, the satellites go all around the world. They just don't bother to turn them off over the US.

To buy something you punched in the vendor's credit number and the amount of purchase; the sum was automatically shuffled from your account to his. The machine was the size of a slender wallet and coded to your thumbprint.