Quotes About Technology

I was impressed by the scene in Apollo 13 where the astronauts request confirmation of their calculations and several people at Mission Control dive for their slide rules. For several months after that, my standard response to statements like "We must implement multi-processor object-oriented Java-based client-server technologies immediately!" was "You know, FORTRAN and slide rules put men on the moon and got them back safely multiple times." Tended to shut them up, at least for a moment.

Invoking the name of Al Gaddafi cured my blue screen of death

Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.

Why use the most advanced communications technology in history to teach people basic geography, or how World Bank structural adjustment lending works, when we can instead show people idiots drinking donkey semen for money?

The London-based Reprieve organization found that 1,147 people were killed by drones in efforts to kill just forty-one men.

The only constant will be more and more authoritarian solutions. In the social media age, we can scare you as never before. Which means politicians will have an easier time obtaining permission for censorship, surveillance, immigration bans, and other expanded powers.

Connecting products to the Web will be the 21st century electrification.

When I'm around hard-core computer geeks I wanna say, "Come outside, the graphics are great!"

I don't know anything about computers. I don't even know how often to change the oil.

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.

Unknown to the sleeping family, three of their cell phones had been covertly switched on, providing the STU with interior audio listening devices paid for and put in position by the Edmonds themselves. To the STU Team members, what civilians didn't know about their own cell phones was simply mind boggling.

Let's face it: the vast majority of the American people are just not intelligent enough to function independently in a modern technological society. They have to be led, for their own good. The problem is, most of them are too ignorant to know what's best for them.

When the things you can buy online matter more to you than the things you can do in your neighbourhood; when you communicate with social media friends you never meet more than your real friends; when your notion of public space is confined to the screen in your hand: all this removes the sinew of citizenship

It is in his obsessions that mankind most closely resembles his machines.

He looked about the workroom, his eyes falling upon my integrator. "What manner of beast is that?" he said. "An unmannerly kind," I said. He extended a hand toward its head. "Does it bite?" "I don't know, but in a moment we may find out.

We have become people of the device.

We are called to become people of prayer, not people of the device.

The only thing these online connections and communities prove is that as human beings we have an incredible need and hunger for meaningful interaction with each other.

Social media is like a drug that has been on the market for twenty years before they discover it is causing cancer.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?

Why buy books when you can read them online

I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.

Although he always talked about technology and Oracle with passion and intensity, he didn't have the methodical relentlessness that made Bill Gates so formidable and feared. By his own admission, Ellison was not an obsessive grinder like Gates: "I am a sprinter. I rest, I sprint, I rest, I sprint again.