Quotes About Technology

This device became a big hit. Our new challenge became how to satisfy demand for it. To put this in perspective, we were a company composed of a handful of people with a new type of design and a fragile technology, housed in a little rented building, and we were trying to supply the seemingly insatiable appetite of large computer companies for memory chips. The

In fact , we might as well say "proprietary", which ,in fact, was the byword of the old computer industry.

Electronic banking is still a clumsy way to replace a stamp. And interactive television seems to have vanished even before the ink dried on the mega-announcements.

Will going to this meeting teach me about the new technology or the new market that I think is very important now? Will it introduce me to people who can help me in the new direction? Will it send a message about the importance of the new direction?" If so, go to it. If not, resist it.

e-mail is also the first manifestation of a revolution in how information flows and how it is managed.

because of the ease with which Japanese office workers communicate, they have, in fact, been slow to embrace electronic mail.

A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done. Consequently, once the PC brought a "10X" lower cost for a given performance, it was only a matter of time before its impact would spread through the entire computing world and transform it. This change

In Technology, whatever can be done will be done

In short, strategic inflection points are about fundamental change in any business, technological or not

The day is coming, and it ain't going to be long, when you ain't even gonna have to leave your living room. No more schools, nor more bodegas, no more tabernacles, no more cinneplexes. You're going to snuggle up to your fiber optics baby and bliss out.

Hardware had to be researched, purchased, secured, integrated, tracked, and disposed of. Software had to be licensed, configured, patched, updated, and eventually replaced. Networks had to be built, secured, upgraded, and inevitably rebuilt. And every component interacted with every other component in curious and unexpected ways, with unexpected occasionally culminating in catastrophic. The

I always bring back books for the library. Books have everything in them. After the end of the world, you cannot learn a goddamned thing from a computer or a television screen.

Had (President) Kennedy turned to his advisers and wailed, "What can we beat the Russians at?" and if someone had cried "Backgammon!" at that point, Apollo would never have happened.

Apollo has something to teach us as we enter a new century of genetic modification, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology. It's a cautionary tale about that most fundamentally human of human tragedies .. wanting something so badly that you end up destroying it.

So a nuclear reactor is based on a nuclear chain reaction in much the same way as we have seen a nuclear bomb is also based on a nuclear chain reaction.

Langrage was basically shards of cast or wrought iron, jagged-edged, parcelled up much like chain, used in the smaller bore cannon where chain was impractical; it had become much less popular in recent years, probably as much through fashion as logical argument.

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200 000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

Once the Xerox copier was invented, private diplomacy died. There's no such thing as secrecy. It's just a question of whether it's leaked or revealed openly.

There is a fine line between social networking and wasting your fucking life.

There is a fine line between social networking and wasting your f**king life.

How funny it is that one of the fundamental definitions of being "modern" is the ability to avoid physical labor, when it might be that very thing that could provide us with such depth of connection to ourselves and to the world.

The biggest cultural mistake we can indulge in is to yearn for technological solutions to our deepest cultural problems.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.