Quotes About Technology

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

Engineering is merely the slow younger brother of physics.

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.

As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles, and, as a toy it is beautiful; but ... its commercial value will be limited.

Ensuring that the US continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration.

There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.

We are in the grip of a scientific materialism, caught in a vicious cycle where our security today seems to depend on regimentation and weapons which will ruin us tomorrow.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

The self-regulating mechanism of the market place cannot always be depended upon to produce adequate results in scientific research.

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine

This extraordinary metal, the soul of every manufacture, and the mainspring perhaps of civilised society. Of iron.

Never fire a laser at a mirror.

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

I've always been interested in science fiction

Science is just magic with better PR.

One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away... it is fun to be alive at this point in history.

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.