Quotes About Technology

In order for America to remain a global leader in innovation and opportunity, we must give our children a solid foundation in math and science.

We need to make science cool again.

People think that computer science is the art of geniuses but the actual reality is the opposite, just many people doing things that build on each other, like a wall of mini stones.

The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.

The technical genius which could find answers was not cooped up in military or civilian bureaucracy, but was to be found in universities and in the people at large.

There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now.

The Analytical Engine is an embodying of the science of operations, constructed with peculiar reference to abstract number as the subject of those operations.

....the ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.

I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

No one gets teased for being a geek anymore- science is the new rock n roll

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

Engineering is a predictive science, not a manipulative art.

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.

Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt but we need the science base.

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.