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Quotes About Technology

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.
~ William McDonough
This is not a great phone. It's an interesting design.
~ Unknown
Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.
~ Arman
I defy anyone to design a hat, coat or dress that hasn't been done before...The only new frontier left in fashion is the finding of new materials
~ Paco Rabanne
They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!
~ Emil Ruder
The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.
~ Isaac Asimov
Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
~ James Dyson
If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.
~ Unknown
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.
~ Bjarne Stroustrup
Skill in the digital age is confused with mastery of digital tools, masking the importance of understanding materials and mastering the elements of form.
~ John Maeda
The reason for designing new media is simple - to subtly and quietly change the world.
~ Unknown
great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.
~ Paul Cookson
I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.
~ Mikhail Kalashnikov
The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Computers are stupid.
~ Pablo Picasso
I've always considered myself a graphic artists - a draftsman - as opposed to a typist. I do still work on a drawing table. At times drawing on a computer feels like I'm drawing on an Etch-a-Sketch.
~ Michael Schwab
The display is the computer.
~ Unknown
I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
~ Seymour Cray
Game design isn't just a technological craft. It's a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.
~ Jane McGonigal
The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.
~ Paul Saffo
It's tens of millions of calculations just to design one connection between a piece of structural steel and another piece of structural steel.
~ Greg Lynn
So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.
~ Debi Thomas
In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
~ Steve Wozniak
I do two things. I design mobile computers and I study brains.
~ Jeff Hawkins