Quotes About Technology

an architect should not take a position of throw more hardware at it... that will fix all the problems.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet.

The telephone was not his favorite object, and more than once he had considered getting rid of his. What he disliked most of all was its tyranny. Not only did it have the power to interrupt him against his will, but inevitably he would give in to its command.

There's progress for you. A bigger and better mousetrap every month. Pretty soon, we'll all be able to kill all the mice at the same time.

That's American know-how for you. It keeps coming at you, and every minute there's new junk to push out the old junk.

I seriously doubt that some slave ship ancestor, in those idle moments between being raped and beaten, was standing knee-deep in their own feces rationalizing that, in the end, the generations of murder, unbearable pain and suffering, mental anguish, and rampant disease will all be worth it because someday my great-great-great-great-grandson will have Wi-Fi, no matter how slow and intermittent the signal is.

And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was invented in a California garage: the Apple computer, the Boogie Board, and gangster rap.

And if you think about it, pretty much everything that made the twentieth century bearable was invented in a California garage: the Apple computer, the Boogie Board

Today, it is research with human embryonic stem cells and attempts to prepare cloned stem cells for research and medical therapies that are being disavowed as being ethically unacceptable.

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.

Internet: absolute communication, absolute isolation.

Television to brainwash us all and Internet to eliminate any last resistance.

great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.

I looked at my phone, but it was just a sort of prop phone, and I couldn't get any reception because I was in Lord of the Rings, so I'd have only got I don't know, Bugger Baggins

There has to be a minimum amount of Off time between one MIDI byte and the next: a "resting" interval of 1/31,250 second

Since the MIDI-DIN bit rate is 31,250 bits per second, and there are 10 bits in a byte, the MIDI byte rate is 3,125 bytes per second.

there is no such thing as two absolutely simultaneously-occurring events in MIDI—any two events must be at least 0.6 milliseconds apart

the INTP is more likely to be drawn to programming (to be able to use his or her auxiliary function, Intuition, to learn about new programs and creative ways to use the system).

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.

[Upon first seeing a daguerreotype:] From today painting is dead.

Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.

It has been a long transition from interacting with computers using a soldering iron to interacting using a mouse. It has been neither smooth nor planned.