Quotes About Technology

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.

Science fiction is very healthy in its form.

In terms of stories I would buy for a science fiction magazine, if they take place in the future, that might do it.

No matter what decade science fiction comes from, it's representing the present.

It is unworthy of excellent men to lose hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could be relegated to anyone else if machines were used.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Most of the programmers in ten years will be us, and we won't get much smarter.

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.

Combine science and humanities.

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

Science fiction is what I point at when I say science fiction.

Futurism today is led by science-fiction writers, by sociologists, by historians. Now, I have nothing against them. I'm sure they do great work. But they're not scientists. They're clueless.

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

It's one of those things that if I was smart enough to explain it in words, I wouldn't have had to make a movie "World Of Tomorrow" out of it. It's a love letter to science fiction.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Science gets more fun when I get a bigger gun!