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Quotes About Technology

Software Engineering might be science; but that's not what I do. I'm a hacker, not an engineer.
~ Jamie Zawinski
There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.
~ Hal Abelson
Radioimmunoassay (RIA) is simple in principle.
~ Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.
~ Marvin Minsky
Today's science fiction is tomorrow's science fact.
~ Isaac Asimov
Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.
~ Steve Ballmer
Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.
~ Michael Faraday
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of how to get machines to do the things they do in the movies.
~ Astro Teller
I've called science fiction 'reality ahead of schedule'
~ Syd Mead
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.
~ Eckhart Tolle
It devolves upon the United States to help motorize the world.
~ Walter Chrysler
When we benefit from CT scanners, M.R.I. devices, pacemakers and arterial stents, we can immediately appreciate how science affects the quality of our lives.
~ Brian Greene
The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
~ Bill Gates, The Road Ahead
In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.
~ George Orwell, 1984
If contemporary literary fiction doesn't read a bit like science fiction then it's probably not all that contemporary, is it
~ Warren Ellis
[The daguerreotype] itself must undoubtedly be regarded as the most important, and perhaps the most extraordinary triumph of modern science.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Our garage was basically science fair central.
~ Jeff Bezos
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
~ Alan Perlis
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
~ Thomas Sowell
Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.
~ Jim Horning
Not only was [Edwin Land] one of the great inventors of our time but, more important, he saw the intersection of art and science and business and built an organization to reflect that.
~ Steve Jobs
Until Systers came into existence, the notion of a global community of women in computer science did not exist.
~ Anita Borg
I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.
~ Buck Henry