Quotes About Technology

While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.

You have to understand that teaching online is different, just like movies are different from the stage and TV is different from radio.

I believe in teaching as a real job. I don't think it's a substitute for anything else. It's been shown to me that teachers can help, and the writing today is just as good as it was when I started out. Technology hasn't changed that.

What is the point of teaching how to analyse a poem or a piece of Shakespeare but not to analyse the Internet?

Code is just a list of instructions. There are countries that are teaching it as part of the core curriculum. Having some experience in those early years is very important.

When I think about dropping team sports and picking up surfing and also then geeking out radio control planes and gadgetry and all that stuff I love, that's what really now has led me in big part to GoPro.

Captain Evelyn Waugh of the British Army wrote of the Stuka, "Like all things German, it is very efficient and goes on much too long.

Operation PENGUIN. Fourteen V-2s would be fired on average every day in coming months, although they had an annoying tendency to break up in flight. Unlike the V-1, the V-2 could not be defended against—at Mach 5, it was simply too fast.

The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.

Moira nodded vigorously. She didn't know what BASIC or COBOL were, except that Wiz said they caused brain damage in those who used them.

You're not dealing with people," Jerry told him. "These are programmers, boy. Programmers!

When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.

We may think that kids have a natural fascination with phones. Really, children have a fascination with whatever Mom and Dad find fascinating.

Larry McMurtry and Woody Allen, still use manual typewriters to compose their books and scripts, because computers and word processors pose too many potential distractions.

This is a timely warning for those who live at the end of the age when digital devices provide information so quickly that thinking is no longer needed.

Always trust computer games.

Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

Crop rotation in the 14th century was considerably more widespread after John?

I love the modern technology now.

In modern life we move from one insulated igloo to another...serially abstracting ourselves from nature and its impacts.

Computer dating is fine, if you're a computer.

And keep one thing in mind-tanks and guns can break my bones, but emails can be deleted.

Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in.

Thanks to the greatest invention of recent years, the MP3-playing alarm clock, I can now choose the song that wakes me up in the morning.