Quotes About Technology

As a matter of fact, Ona spent more credits on the window shades alone than you will make in your entire lifetime and that's if you live to be 185." "And that's meant to make me feel better?" I said. "No, that is meant to inform you. I am your computer not your nanny.

FAR 91.21 – You must determine that the iPad, as a portable electronic device, does not cause interference in the airplane's communication or navigation equipment.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

Family is family over the internet, over Skype, over the telephone. Love is love. You don't have to actually go through some ritual to prove that you love somebody.

The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.

Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.

My iPhone stays on. All my friends and family know that I hate the phone, so no one calls me on it. I just use it to play Words With Friends and take pictures of cute shoes.

If we're sitting at dinner and there's no conversation going on because everybody's got their head someplace else in their iPhone, that's a family problem that needs to be solved.

We use tools such as email, not just as a way to keep in daily touch with family members who live in other cities, but also as a way to keep in touch with staff and members of the public.

The television set's on while the family's sitting around having dinner or talking. Nobody's watching TV; it's there; they're aware of it, but they're not participating. That's passive.

Yes. Because every family needs a laser for thier family jet.

Some people have concerns about what it means to leave our responsibilities to robots. I think to some degree in every family, you've got siblings who disagree over the care for their parents.

Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.

They are doing away with drive-ins. Now where are the teenagers going to go to not watch a movie?

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.

I'm a sci-fi guy. But I like fantasy too.

Privacy is a bourgeois fantasy.

My fantasy is that there is a new regulatory body that is in charge of algorithmic auditing.

Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.

My father works for Xerox and fixes those gigantic copy machines that are about 10 feet wide.

I couldn't see my father's films because they were restricted and we didn't have videos or DVDs back then.