Quotes About Technology

There was Babylon and Nineveh; they were built of brick. Athens was gold marble columns. Rome was held up on broad arches of rubble. In Constantinople the minarets flame like great candles round the Golden Horn… Steel, glass, tile, concrete will be the materials of the skyscraper. Crammed on the narrow island the millionwindowed buildings will just glittering, pyramid on pyramid like the white cloudhead above a thunderstorm.

Get the shuttle out of the garage. It's in its prime of its life. How could we just put it away?

I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom.

Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends.

I've tried to become a singer with the guitar and not let any technological licks run my life. Just write the licks and play them as best as I can as a part rather than ad libbing.

Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED

New tech almost always looks dumb right before it completely changes your life.

A liberated Internet will continue to be a reality in your life (and in the lives of your children) if rules like Net Neutrality are in place.

My iPhone has changed my life - I spend hours taking photos of the sidewalk as I walk down the street. I like the casualness, that it's low-resolution.

Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.

Humans make mistakes. Programmers are bound to make mistakes. Hackers, you can bet your life, are going to be there to exploit those mistakes.

My background is putting in large systems that change lives... The right kind of systems can bring honesty and efficiency.

For a million years the sound of making handaxes provided the percussion of everyday life. Anyone choosing a hundred objects to tell a history of the world would have to include a handaxe.

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.

Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.

I fracked over 3,000 wells in my life and never had a problem with an aquifer.

In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

Whenever you see someone react to something they're reading on their phone, that's life being lived.

There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.

I am not at all computer literate in real life. I haven't yet found a reason to be. Once I find a reason why I need to be on the Internet, then I will be.

I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another planet.

The humans create life, and senselessly cause death. For nothing.

By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.