Quotes About Technology

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A study of the brain using new technology showed that the thinking areas practically shut down when people were made to listen to information that contradicted their political beliefs. Conversely, when they heard information that tended to confirm their beliefs, the happiness centers of the brain lit up.

All television is children's television.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

And yet the time saved did not seem to mean additional leisure or greater opportunities for meditation and reflection. Instead, with each new wave of technology, the pace of life increased; there was more to do, more choices to make, more things to experience, and people eagerly seized upon those experiences and filled the hours that had only moments ago become empty.

Programming languages, like pizzas, come in only two sizes: too big and too small.

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

We need to get the information out of Grace, Hey Mitchell, do you have a computer.- Michael Like six of them- Mitchell We need your most powerful one. We've got to upload Grace.- Michael What's grace- Mitchell I'm Grace- Grace I don't get it. Will someone please tell me what's going on?- Mitchell They're uploading me. -Grace I'm so confused -Mitchell

Good. I didn't hear the four a.m. rooster alarm." "I did," Taylor said. "It went on for like ten minutes before I rebooted it." "You rebooted a rooster?" "I think so. It stopped mid-crow.

There are people whom we've never met in person yet feel closer to than those we brush up against in real life. Kimberly Rossi's Diary

There are people whom we've never met in person yet feel closer to than those we brush up against in real life.

L'électricité est réellement le sang de la civilisation.

There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

Faraday's principle of induction,

Not all addictions were chemically based. How many people could get by without their cars or air-conditioning or refrigeration or electricity? The truth was that mankind was addicted to technology.

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.

The price to sequence a base [of the human genome] has fallen 100 million times. That's the equivalent of you filling up your car with gas in 1998, waiting until 2011, and now you can drive to Jupiter and back twice.

The landed classes neglected technical education, taking refuge in classical studies; as late as 1930, for example, long after Ernest Rutherford at Cambridge had discovered the atomic nucleus and begun transmuting elements, the physics laboratory at Oxford had not been wired for electricity. Intellectual neglect technical education to this day. [Describing C.P. Snow's observations on the neglect of technical education.]

The Manhattan District bore no relation to the industrial or social life of our country; it was a separate state, with its own airplanes and its own factories and its thousands of secrets. It had a peculiar sovereignty, one that could bring about the end, peacefully or violently, of all other sovereignties.