Quotes About Technology

Experimentation has been the key factor in the success of Western capitalism

I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries.

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars.

the invention of fire-arms equalized the villein and the noble on the field of battle; printing opened the same resources to the minds of all classes;

Nothing tends to materialise man, and to deprive his work of the faintest trace of mind, more than extreme division of labour.

Century also had shelves of obsolete printed books.

Presteign took out a silver-mounted slab of crystal and handed it to Olivia. She touched it with her fingertip; a black dot appeared. She moved her finger and the dot elongated into a line.

The preference most of them had for seeing through their camera, rather than looking at the real thing, and so on.

She thought of sex as the Star Trek transport. You vaporized and found yourself navigating another planet within the second or two it took to realign.

Although only 7 percent of Americans have passports—a shocking realization since we seem to be everywhere—99 percent of us have television or the Internet.

You're a throwback. To what? Jess considered this. Hi-tech at work, Emily was paradoxically old-fashioned in her life. She didn't even own a television. The nineteenth century, Jess concluded. No. Eighteenth. You can be eighteenth. I'll be nineteenth. I never pictured you as a Victorian. No, early nineteenth century, said Jess, who had always been a stickler when it came to imaginary games and books. The Blue Fairy, not Tinker Bell. Lucy, not Susan. Jo, not Amy. Austen, not the Brontes.

A bit of emptiness is actually very good for you. It leaves room for your imagination to flourish, ideas to hatch, or simply for your brain to rest. Without emptiness, your ability to be creative is severely diminished. Smartphones may be the work of some highly creative minds, but they are destroying creativity in their users.

Television concentrates its blue flicker of death in the frontal lobe

The electric network selling itself: The medium is the message

more diamonds and pearls of electricity

Electric Networks spread fear of murder on the streets

Scream in despair over Meat and Metal Microphone

artificial trees, robot sofas, Ignorant cars- One Way Street to Heaven

all Revolution and Consumption, Manufacture and Communication

robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets

Amazed Generation! Found Generation! Diamond Generation! Brainwashed Generation! Amnesiac T.V. Bureaucracy Voidoids! New Wave Punk Generation! Neutron Bomb blast Babies! Apocalypse Spermatozoa! Did you grow up imbibing Microchip sex waters? Will you marry me in the next Millennium? Must I wait for the Great Year? - Listening to Susan Sontag

They were often convoluted, and unless it was a state-of-the-art facility, they'd layer new systems on top of the old, ultimately spending more to force everything to work, rather than using that money on the front end to get a new, better system that would save time and money in the future.

My great-great-grandchildren will be born with prehensile texting thumbs, no vocal cords and zero capacity to read human facial expressions.

The great growling engine of change – technology.