Quotes About Technology

Now we can travel with more books stored in our telephones than the ancient Egyptians kept in their vast library at Alexandria.

great machine, stripped of her last coverings, poised on the greensward

Many faith communities have become little more than gatherings of isolated individuals, while the number of online communities continues to grow.

Flight and guidance systems are theoretically foolproof these days, but fools are surprisingly ingenious.

felt that antagonistic indignation that can be pulled off particularly well on the Internet.

If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.

South Central Los Angeles, for example, is a data and media black hole, without local cable programming or links to major data systems. Just as it became a housing-and-jobs ghetto in the postwar period, it is now evolving into an off-net electronic ghetto.

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers.

As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

The Internet has brought communities across the globe closer together through instant communication.

People were sitting together, talking and telling stories face-to-face again, instead of staring at a cell phone screens while texting or chatting with someone else hundreds of miles away while ignoring the ones they were with.

Chapter 5-"Now THAT'S Leverage" discusses the idea of "software leverage," where reusing components results in greater impact. We see how the use of shell scripts achieves a high degree of leverage.

They learned that small programs, like small cars, handled better, were more adaptable, and were easier to maintain than large programs.

who never thought to give her a call, even though, it seemed, they lived their entire lives through their phones.

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

The future belongs to the companies and people that turn data into products

The slogan goes, "Move fast and break things." But what if society is broken?

Infrastructure as Code." If you're going to do operations reliably, you need to make it reproducible and programmatic.

The new sysadmin won't power down a machine, replace a failing disk drive, reboot, and restore from backup; he'll write software to detect a misbehaving EC2 instance automatically, destroy the bad instance, spin up a new one, and configure it, all without interrupting service. With

Perl was designed as a programming language for automating system administration.

The new sysadmin won't power down a machine, replace a failing disk drive, reboot, and restore from backup; he'll write software to detect a misbehaving EC2 instance automatically, destroy the bad instance, spin up a new one, and configure it, all without interrupting service.

it's important not to divorce developers from the consequences of their work since the fires are frequently set by their code. So

The companies that didn't suffer, including Netflix, knew how to design for reliability; they understood resilience, spreading data across zones, and a whole lot of reliability engineering.