Quotes About Technology

Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).

Today in America, we are trying to prepare students for a high tech world of constant change, but we are doing so by putting them through a school system designed in the early 20th Century that has not seen substantial change in 30 years.

But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor.

As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures.

All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.

At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.

They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.

E-mail is too public, for one thing—it's more like sending a postcard than sealing a letter into an envelope.

An idea sparked in the 1960s, a thought experiment, an amusing haiku, is now a thing of metal and glass.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

My two main conclusions are that technology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic acts, and that it finds most of its uses after it has been invented, rather than being invented to meet a foreseen need.

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today." (Interview, Sierra Magazine , May/June 2005)

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.

There are worse offenses than sending large spreadsheets as PDFs, but offhand I can't come up with any.

I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner.

I want to go to sleep in my time machine and wake up eight hours in the future.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

Web 2.0 ideas have a chirpy, cheerful rhetoric to them, but I think they consistently express a profound pessimism about humans, human nature and the human future.

We're losing track of the vastness of the potential for computer science. We really have to revive the beautiful intellectual joy of it, as opposed to the business potential.

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.