Quotes About Technology

As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.

We saw a big bang in PCs; we saw a big bang in the Internet. I believe the next big bang is going to be even bigger. To be ready for that, we need to set the foundation, and that foundation is SoftBank Vision Fund.

What we believe at Founders Fund is that technology is a way to help everybody on the planet.

You realize that if you're in the media business, technology is fundamentally what's driving the change in that business.

If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.

The more technologically advanced our society becomes, the more we need to go back to the basic fundamentals of human communication.

We need to show why the government should be funding science and how that funding delivers.

There was a time when the government cut off funding to SETI, basically, and I thought it was something that should continue, and it was a very interesting scientific question.

The General's preoccupation with electronic gadgetry irked Randall. The world had become a wondrous fabric of instant communication, linking millions of people in the same old abundance of problems and poverty of solutions.

Nothing is more frustrating than sitting in an office amid typewriters and mimeographers when you know what deus ex machina means.

It was a magic carpet - woven with the coils and ringlets of a wondrous peel of limber plastic, whose filaments carried the genetic code of all the arts of man, and from which the abracadabra of science conjured up the hopes, the fears, the dreams of man - the magic carpet of FILM!

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there's the real danger.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

Em tempos, os homens entregavam o pensamento às máquinas, na esperança de que isso os libertasse. Mas só permitiu que outros homens com máquinas os escravizassem

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." " 'Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind

Bir zamanlar, insanlar düÅŸünme iÅŸini makinelere devretmiÅŸ, böylece özgürleÅŸmeyi umut etmiÅŸlerdi; ama bu, makinelere sahip baÅŸka insanlar?n onlar? köleleÅŸtirmesine yol açt? sadece.

Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.

Then came the Butlerian Jihad—two generations of chaos. The god of machine-logic was overthrown among the masses and a new concept was raised: "Man may not be replaced." Those

Surely not a palm lock, she told herself. A palm lock must be keyed to one individual's hand shape and palm lines. But it looked like a palm lock. And there were ways to open any palm lock—as she had learned at school.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,'" Paul quoted. "Right out of the Butlerian Jihad and the Orange Catholic Bible," she said. "But what the O.C. Bible should've said is: 'Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.' Have you studied the Mentat in your service?

The implied methods would permit construction of entirely new computers reduced in size and basic complexity by a factor of at least a thousand.

Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.