Quotes About Technology

Profound changes to how children access vast information is yielding new forms of peer-to-peer and individual-guided learning.

A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.

At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the error of blaming it on the computer.

Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication.

I didn't even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.

I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself.

The problem is that nowadays, with so much information flying around, it is almost impossible to remember anything you saw just a week ago, never mind three years ago!

The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

I'm still learning. I've never done a digital project before. And I'm pretty sure I did things to the software that weren't supposed to be done.

Fancy optimizers have fancy bugs.

When I first started learning how to take photographs, you had to spend the first six months figuring out what an f-stop was. Now you just go and take pictures.

In software speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware if you screw it up you are dead. So accuracy really matters.

We flew down weekly to meet with IBM, but they thought the way to measure software was the amount of code we wrote, when really the better the software, the fewer lines of code.

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to sleep; the record got stuck. The next day I could only stutter in Spanish.

If great lecture is theatre, the future of learning is games.

We will not achieve high performance in education if we replace teachers with machines or turn teachers into machines.

On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

Progress is possible only if we train ourselves to think about programs without thinking of them as pieces of executable code.

For me, the fiction writer's job is to take the small, stupid process of learning to use an iPhone - and suddenly you're the guy who's asking your daughter, "When I go on Facebook, can it see me?"

If you're over age 50, the internet is something you're just learning about.

It is good netiquette to use the internet for online education. Learn new things. NetworkEtiquette.net

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.