Quotes About Technology

We live in a culture that venerates scores. We affix numbers to how much fat is in our mochachinos, how quickly our telephones suck information from the air, how much pain we're in. Reading, too, has become a skill to quantifiably assess.

What we did with this mobile telephone was create a revolution. Before the mobile phone existed we were calling a place, now we are calling a person.

My father played one of the first electric guitars in England. He built his own in 1940, because you couldn't buy them in those days. He used three telephone pickups under the strings, which gave chronic distortion on chords but was quite good on single notes.

I can't imagine anywhere I'd rather be than outside the space shuttle in my space suit next to the Hubble Space Telescope.

The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.

The Hubble Space Telescope, which was designed for extreme servicing, you know, we can fix everything. And the James Webb Space Telescope, where we can fix nothing. It has to work the first time. And it's a very complicated telescope.

The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

In the course of writing 'First Light,' I climbed all over and through the Hale Telescope, where I found rooms, stairways, tunnels, and abandoned machines leaking oil. My notebooks show tooth-marks where I gripped them with my teeth while climbing around inside the telescope, and the notebooks are stained with Flying Horse telescope oil.

I think probably the discoveries made by Hubble Space Telescope have been very dramatic, very amazing.

Hubble is absolutely unique; we must have a telescope in space to complement the very large telescopes on the ground.

A radio telescope pointing at the sky receives radiation not only from space, but also from other sources including the ground, the earth's atmosphere, and the components of the radio telescope itself.

The Hubble images far surpassed anything taken by any telescope on Earth.

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.

Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

I said the screen will kill the reader, and it has: the movie screen in the beginning, the television screen, and now the coup de grace, the computer screen.

The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.

Without television, cricket would be a poorer place;the two have to coexist.

I've seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one.