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Quotes About Technology

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.
~ Richie Benaud
Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
~ Bob Feller
Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.
~ Eddie Rickenbacker
Every year there's an Oscar and Grammy and we celebrate those shows. We do the same in the U.S about sports schools and colleges. The same thing doesn't happen for tech and STEM.
~ will.i.am
These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.
~ Steve Largent
Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.
~ Alan Simpson
I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
~ Alan Turing
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
~ Alan Turing
It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.
~ Alan Turing
It is possible to invent a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence.
~ Alan Turing
A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. ~ Alan Turing
~ Alan Turing
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, My little computer said such a funny thing this morning. ~ Alan Turing
~ Alan Turing
I used to think Denny was foolish because she had no definite ideas about the world. I had very definite ideas: the world was a mess, but its problems could be solved by modern technology, and when Alan and I left college we would begin to improve things. I was an ignorant git. If intelligence asks searching questions and does not relax on a pile of glib answers Denny was the intelligent half of us.
~ Alasdair Gray
Can we drop the 'artificial intelligence'? It's a bit like me calling you a meat-based processing system.
~ Alastair Reynolds
How did you . . . pass the time?' Sunday asked. 'You couldn't just ching out of it, could you?' 'We had a different form of chinging,' Eunice said. 'An earlier type of virtual-reality technology, much more robust and completely unaffected by time lag. You may have heard of it. We called it "reading".
~ Alastair Reynolds
Cowards were exactly the kind of people you wanted around nuclear technology.
~ Alastair Reynolds
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
~ Albert Einstein
The human spirit must prevail over technology.
~ Albert Einstein
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
~ Albert Einstein
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
~ Albert Einstein
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
~ Albert Einstein
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.
~ Albert Einstein
Concern for man himself and his fate must always constitute the chief objective of all technological endeavors...in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
~ Albert Einstein
Félek attól a naptól amikor a technológia fontosabb lesz,mint a személyes kapcsolattartás.A világon lesz egy generációnyi idióta.
~ Albert Einstein