Quotes About Technology

I have been competing against IBM my whole career. It's a good company, with good management and a good team.

In this age of smartphones, all one needs to do is make a good film. The audience will take care of the rest.

Giving education away for free is a really good idea, but it can't be the future of education. There has to be a business model around it that actually works.

I've never gotten a good idea while checking Twitter or shopping.

Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?

I think Xbox has a really good story about value for gamers, around a lot of diversity of choice.

Well, air-conditioning is not a good thing.

America is full of geeks - and that's a really good thing.

There's a reason why Smellovision has never really taken off. And I think it's a good thing.

Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.

I would not have pretty much any of the good things in my life if it weren't for the Internet.

The 1990s felt like the 1990s in a real and good way.

called counter command-control warfare: just knowing that you'd been hacked, regardless of its tangible effects, was disorienting, disrupting. Meanwhile

the lag time between collecting and acting on intelligence was slashed from sixteen hours to one minute. By

One word was floating around in stories about hackings of one sort or another: "cyber." The word had its roots in "cybernetics," a term dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, describing the closed loops of information systems. But in its present-day context of computer networks, the term stemmed from William Gibson's 1984 science-fiction novel, Neuromancer, a wild and eerily prescient tale of murder and mayhem in the virtual world of "cyberspace.

A computer is a wonderful and friendly machine, because it's always just a little better than you are. You're always a little bit behind, but it stays right there with you anyway. It allows you to make the mistakes, and then to try to find out what the mistakes are, and then to repair the mistakes. It's always your friend. It quits on you, but it doesn't leave the apartment.

If one does all these things to a human being, what is left is no longer precisely a human being. It is a man plus large elements of hardware. The man has become a cybernetic organism: a cyborg.

That was an all-purpose IBM 3070. It took up half a room and still did not have enough capacity to do all the jobs demanded of it.

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

The Germans invented gunpowder—all credit to them! but they again made things square—they invented printing.)

THE MAD ROBOT, by William P. McGivern Originally published in Amazing Stories, January 1944. CHAPTER I Rick Weston arrived at the Earth space-port outside Greater New York at six o'clock in the morning. He was driven directly to the mooring tower where his slim, fast pursuit single-seater was being readied for his trip to Jupiter

THE ROBOT MEN OF BUBBLE CITY, by Rog Phillips Originally published in Fantastic Adventures, July 1949. Turlogh Hogan pressed the stud that raised the parabolic projector but of its recess in the hull of his ship. The second the light on the panel flashed on, signaling the projector was in operating position, he flicked the relay button that sent the ultra-high frequency current through its opposing coils.

Modern toys entertain them with a bag of tricks that leave the young 'uns no room for imagination. They couldn't possibly think up, on their own, all the screwy things these new toys do.

But surpassing all stupendous inventions, what sublimity of mind was his who dreamed of finding means to communicate his deepest thoughts to any other person, though distant by mighty intervals of place and time! Of talking with those who are in India; of speaking to those who are not yet born and will not be born for a thousand or ten thousand years; and with what facility, by the different arrangements of twenty characters upon a page!