Quotes About Technology

Well, I've been a fan of videogames all my life.

Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.

Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.

The biggest benefit in my life comes from my Segway, which I use everywhere I am. If I'm going to San Antonio, for example, I'll load it in the car and just go everywhere with it.

Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

People buy products, and they want to understand what those things are and how they are applicable to their life.

I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

Steve Jobs was Galileo in a past life. Discovery was instinctual for him.

Rampant technolgy eliminates luxury, but not by declaring privilege a human right; rather, it does so by both raising the general standard of living and cutting off the possibility of fulfilment.

Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done

Battle with unconditioned breath the unconditioned air. Shun electric wire. Communicate slowly. Live a three-dimensional life; stay away from screens.

Even with a computer, I can't get rid of all the papers in my life.

More than simply capturing brief moments in time, MixBit helps people bring stories to life.

The brain is just the physical machine that runs the program called the mind. The brain is the hardware, the mind is the software.

It was people sitting in their little studios going plink, plonk, plink, plonk on one track, and then putting a vocal on the other or making a bass drum sound out of a synthesizer. Plus, we all started to listen to Europe rather than America, as that was where all the electronic experimentation was coming from, from Kraftwerk to Jean-Michel Jarre, from Telex to Yello, even the Yellow Magic Orchestra from Japan.

And if you think about Soft Cell, Depeche or Human League, these were people who didn't know what they were doing, there was no musicianship involved. There wasn't any training; it was people's ideas going straight down onto tape, without having to deal with all the niceties of being a good keyboard player, and it was this new whole new sound of electronic music.

The eighties would continue to evolve, driven by ever more mutations of the LinnDrum, the Fairlight CMI, the 808 drum machine and various versions of the Roland synthesizer.

John Foxx: The point of using synthesizers on the first Ultravox records was to find out what these strange new instruments could do that hadn't been done before. I figured new instruments had always radically altered music in the past – for instance, the electric guitar. Here was the next major shift – the synthesizer.

If it were not for certain people's greed for wealth, the highways would be filled with cars powered by the sun, and no one would be starving. Such advances are technologically and physically possible, but apparently not emotionally possible.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

pity this busy monster, manunkind,not. Progress is a comfortable disease.