Quotes About Technology

With thought comprising a non-computational element, computers can never do what we human beings can.

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.

With science fiction there's endless possibilities.

It is a real service to humanity and the world to be a good programmer, particularly if you design great products. You make is easier for everybody, everybody has less headaches.

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction.

Progress is cumulative in science and engineering, but cyclical in finance.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

[M]anufacturing, science and engineering are ... incredibly creative. I'd venture to say more so than creative advertising agencies and things that are known as the creative industries.

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad.

Science leads you to killing people.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

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

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.

For me, a kitchen is like science fiction. I only go there to open the refrigerator and take something out.

I never saw no miracle of science that did not go from a blessing to a curse.

Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?

It's clear that science and science fiction have overlapping populations.

I fear - as far as I can tell - that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.

Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.