Quotes About Technology

LINC "was the first machine that you could take apart and put in the back of your car, carry somewhere else, put back together again, and it would run," Ornstein recalled. "That idea had never previously seemed conceivable.

The Computer Science Lab was a collection of engineers who weighed everything pitilessly against the question: How will this get us closer to our goal? They had committed themselves to developing Xerox's office of the future, and anything that diverted their attention or served an alternative goal had to be discarded or obliterated.

The governing principle of PARC was that the place existed to give their employer that ten-year head start on the future. They even contrived a shorthand phrase to explain the concept. The Alto, they said, was a time machine. Thacker

In 1973 the companies and individuals later to be identified with the advent of the personal computer were otherwise engaged. IBM was still turning out electric typewriters; Microsoft's Bill Gates was a freshman entering Harvard; and Steve Jobs, the future co-founder of Apple Computer, was a college dropout wandering around India in search of his Zen master. But

Remember, though, that debugging is as much art as it is computer science [..]

If you buy a 486 with a SuperVGA, you'll get performance that knocks your socks off, especially if you run Windows.

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For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful.

The tour of the amusement park–like campus included a chat with Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. I shared with him Israel's concerns about Google Earth, the global mapping program, which terrorists had used as a targeting device. Google Earth, Schmidt explained, was designed to bring people closer together. "Yes," I acknowledged, "but does it have to bring Hezbollah closer to my children?

In the summer of 2010, thousands of computers controlling the Iranian nuclear project were infected with the Stuxnet virus. Labeled one of the most sophisticated in the world, Stuxnet struck computers controlling the Natanz centrifuges and wreaked havoc.

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

Chinese technology, much of it stolen from the United States, was saving his life. How ironic, Michael thought to himself.

Ebook readers might cause problems. This has become a controversial topic as more and more people use and love ereaders. A close friend of mine doesn't go anywhere without her Kindle and will probably be buried with it. A Wolf, she was dismayed when I shared the findings of a new Harvard Medical School study:23 reading an ebook in the hour before bed delayed sleep more than reading a print book under normal lamplight, and it also increased sleep inertia the next day.

any society or government that relies too heavily on technology will find itself perched perilously on a crumbling precipice over the valley of death and destruction.

The technology to control and destroy people always has in it the seeds of tyranny, and is forever subject to the lowest angels of human nature.

It took more paper than ever to support the paperless society.

within every technological advancement lie the seeds of tyranny and slavery.

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy.

There are more people now with wireless connections than with flush toilets, according to the United Nations (2013).

Remember, code is your house, and you have to live in it.

We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.

The Internet is fast, while humans are slow; capacious, while humans are forgetful.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.