Quotes About Technology

I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we know computers are not far from this goal.

...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.

Computer languages of the future will be more concerned with goals and less with procedures specified by the programmer.

There'll be a little metal fleck in the football, so you can tell for sure whether the guy with the ball got over the goal line or was pushed back.

At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.

The goal of the computer is to provide people with the means to extend people's minds and bodies. It is an exoskeleton that expands our human reach.

The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we've finished building it.

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

Goal we've always had for design at Apple is to create solutions that are inevitable.

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.

It's unlikely that machines would spontaneously decide they didn't like people, or that they had goals in opposition to those of human beings.

There is no way now to get around some use of embryos. But my goal is to avoid using them.

The most important goal I had in mind was to convince people to stop blindly trusting algorithms and assuming that they are inherently fair and objective.

[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning.

We should set a national goal of making computers and Internet access available for every American . . . we must help all Americans gain the skills they need to make the most of the connection.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

At the end of the day, my goal was to be the best hacker.

The Internet: Transforming Society and Shaping the Future Through Chat

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our "CONFIG.SYS" settings.

One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a computer microchip, can actually travel ahead in time and shave beard hairs that don't even exist yet

After a day spent staring at a computer monitor, think of (a) book as a kind of screen saver for your brain

Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns

In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.