Quotes About Technology

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.

Without computers we will be stuck only proving theorems that have short proofs.

Probability of human error is considerably higher than that of machine error.

The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

My goal is to try to tell the public that America could use more science and technology in all aspects of its life.

The simple rule about weapons is that if thery can be built, they will be built.

Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

A number of people who are interested in computers in this lifetime programmed computers in Atlantis.

We're nothing without science. Nothing.

I once got a call from a bank, asking me to compute a mortgage, since their computers were down. This was a very depressing moment.

Photography was the medium preeminently qualified to unite art with science. Photography was born in the years which ushered in the scientific age, an offspring of both science and art.

Science is my territory, but science fiction is the landscape of my dreams.

Scientists need to invent a way to make DNA work like in cartoons.

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.