Quotes About Technology

Let them come. We've got helicopters, tanks, jets, and big guns. We've got armies of robots. What do they have but their stench and the squalor they live in?

Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.

Despite what your science fiction writers dream, we simply don't have the technology

If you can read the book and say, 'Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!' That's Military Science Fiction." (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)

First contact comes not by hand of man, but by metal of machine.

In AR, a falling tree makes no sound unless there is a witness to behold the event. Otherwise, it is only a changing pattern in a complex data-stream.

We're doing it wrong, absolutely wrong! Miss Universe should be about Space Exploration, Miss World about Science and Miss Earth about Going Green!

The convenient function of every celebrated machine for living is to produce machines to live in them.

Harmonics are the cancer of the electrical system.

What happens to the world when science stops evolving?

There's no silver bullet solution with cyber security, a layered defense is the only viable defense

Human kind is already perfect, Technology is getting stronger but we are getting weaker

every successful hardware has a software behind

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless.

Black holes are the last vestige of civilizations obsessed with tinkering.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.

The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't necessarily require the user to have a clue what's going on under the hood.

Great triumphs of engineering genius—the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail— ... are rather invention than engineering proper.

Scientists are the true driving force of civilization.

It has today occurred to me that an amplifier using semiconductors rather than vacuum is in principle possible.[Laboratory notebook, 29 Dec 1939.]

It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons

If the human race wants to go to Hell in a basket technology can help it get there by jet.

My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

Machine learning is the science of getting computers to learn without being explicitly programmed.