Quotes About Technology

The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.

Want to make your computer go really fast Throw it out a window.

WARNING Keyboard Not Attached. Press F10 to Continue.

Use of advanced messaging technology does not imply an endorsement of western industrial civilization.

If we're going to get the world running on nuclear power instead of coal one day – and let me tell you, after living in Manchester, that'll make a big difference to a great many people

The formulation I presented should not diminish our determination to control external circumstances to the advantage of individuals and society, or our resolve to develop, invent, or perfect the cultural instruments with which we can make the world better: ethics, law, art, science, technology.

e seres humanos que inventam flautas, escrevem poesia, acreditam eu Deus, conquistam o Planeta e o espaço em seu redor, combatem doenças para atenuar o sofrimento, mas também não hesitam em destruir outros seres humanos para seu ganho pessoal, inventam a internet, descobrem maneiras de a transformar num instrumento de progresso e de catástrofe e, ainda por cima, se interrogam sobre as bactérias, formigas, abelhas - e si próprios.

The people of the earth have it in their power to see that modern inventions are employed solely for their spiritual and material good.

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

In this day and age if you've got the technology then it's vital to use that technology to track people down. The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get.

What's the earthly use of putting a man on the moon when we cannot live on the earth?

For as long as we have been a species, whether with medicine or technology, by gathering power, by embarking on journeys, or by telling stories, we humans have tried to defeat death. None of us ever has." They reach the top of the tower

That Dr. Hauptmann might have ties so far up—that the telephone on his desk connects him with men a hundred miles away who could probably wag a finger and send a dozen Messerschmitts streaming up from an airfield to strafe some city—intoxicates Werner. We live in exceptional times.

It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio. —Joseph Goebbels

Thermal scanners? Laser sights? Above the junipers, a trio of blue lights hover: some kind of remote-controlled drone. These, the creatures we have chosen to repopulate the earth.

one with a rifle and the other wearing headphones.

from Volkheimer to Werner.

Werner turns the fine-tune dial fractionally, and abruptly the voice booms into his ears, Dvee-nat-set, shayst-nat-set, davt-set-adeen, nonsense, terrible nonsense, pipelined directly into his head; it's like reaching into a sack full of cotton and finding a razor blade inside, everything constant and undeviating and then that one dangerous thing, so sharp you can hardly feel it open your skin.

Somewhere in these streets, plastic was invented. X-rays were discovered, continental drift was identified. What marvels does science cultivate here now?

Critical design can never be truly popular, and that is the fundamental problem. Objects that are critical of industry's agenda are unlikely to be funded by industry.

Why does anyone take photographs ever? We never look at them anymore.

Forget all the twiddly bits, Mr Bond. These superchargers! All they do is suck, squeeze, bang and blow. Who

know I shouldn't say it in this day and age but I'm absolutely useless without a man. There isn't a moment I don't miss Charlie. I never get anything right. I can't work out the buttons on the TV remote control. Parking the car is a nightmare even though it's only a Toyota Prius and it isn't that big.

He fixed it in one of those machines that uses capsules and froths up the milk on the side.