Quotes About Technology

Anna liked magazines. They were glossy machines. The only technology that she could fold. She read them on a regular basis because they were absorbing. Each one came out on a specific day of the week and was good for an hour of absorption.

The internet is the nerd Israel, a place to speak and listen to spectacularly specific concerns.

I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity's unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.

I never know what I'm doing on these sites.

Fidelity is for phonographs

It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much.

death, how I imagined it, I said that the pictures would stop. Evidently I saw as pictures what Americans refer to as Experience. I wasn't at the moment thinking of the pictures newly available, recently offered by technology—the kind of tour one now might take of one's digestive tract, or of the heart. The heart—only a group of muscles after all. But how tenacious they are, starting to beat in the womb, and going in rhythm for as long as a century.

That's so often what it is with machinery: be somewhat in doubt and it carries the decision.

Dogbert to Dilbert My invention can detect human stupidity. It has a very simple interface. All I do is point it at people. Then what does it do? Why would it need to do anything else?

For humans, honesty is a matter of degree. Engineers are always honest in matters of technology and human relationships. That's why it's a good idea to keep engineers away from customers, romantic interests, and other people who can't handle the truth.

If you mine the data hard enough, you can also find messages from God. [Dogbert]

Normal people believe that, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.

Battle platforms were a recent addition to Cruz's arsenal. They were the size of cities, floating on the ocean

From the moment technology allowed us to know which kinds of content influenced viewership the most, the old business model of the news industry was dead media walking.

There was only one creature smarter than all of those doctors put together: the Internet. (Yes, it's a creature, okay?) I

Thanks to the miracle of technology, I can feel angst about every problem in the known universe, so long as those problems can be described in words or pictures.

From the moment technology allowed us to know which kinds of content influenced viewership the most, the old business model of the news industry was dead media walking. From that point through today, the business model of the press changed from presenting information to manipulating brains.

In an early article Jean Baudrillard wrote: "It is useless to fantasize about state projection of police control through TV. . . . TV, by virtue of its mere presence, is a social control in itself. There is no need to imagine it as a state periscope spying on everybody's life– the situation as it stands is more efficient than that: it is the certainty that people are no longer speaking to each other.

If you're not at all interested in performance, shouldn't you be in the Python room down the hall?)

When both NMOS and PMOS field-effect transistors are combined in a complementary arrangement, power is used only when the transistors are switching, making dense, low-power circuit designs possible. Because of this, virtually all modern processors are designed using CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) technology.

A modern PC is both simple and complicated. It is simple in the sense that over the years, many of the components used to construct a system have become integrated with other components into fewer and fewer actual parts. It is complicated in the sense that each part in a modern system performs many more functions than did the same types of parts in older systems.

People call me old-fashioned. The younger guys on the force, they bust my chops because I don't speak their language. Harvey Bullock, dinosaur…because, nope, I didn't see that show last night, where they prance around and belt out awful covers and vote each other into the damn ocean or whatnot.

Never bored on a hoverboard.

So what are those balloons for? In case you fall off your hoverboard?' -- Tally to Peris