Quotes About Technology

I worked transferring books to computer discs, to cut down on storage space and replacement costs, they said. Discers, we called ourselves. We called the library a discotheque, which was a joke of ours. After the books were transferred they were supposed to go to the shredder, but sometimes I took them home with me. I liked the feel of them, and the look. Luke said I had the mind of an antiquarian. He liked that, he liked old things himself. It's

Everything is post these days, as if we're all just a footnote to something earlier that was real enough to have a name of its own.

Suppose I told you about the income from body parts? Organs, bones, DNA, whatever's in demand. That's one of the big earners for this place.

Jack quit his advertising job and devoted himself to the life of the pen. Or rather, to the life of the Remington, soon to be replaced with an IBM Selectric, with the bouncing ball that let you change the typeface. Now that was cool!

From the electrical-engineering editor Thomas Commerford Martin came eloquent support: "Mr. Tesla has been held a visionary, deceived by the flash of casual shooting stars; but the growing conviction of his professional brethren is that because he saw farther, he saw first the low lights flickering on tangible new continents of science. . . .

The e-reader certainly sorts out the sheep from the goats, and divides those who need to read from those who like to turn the pages.

The Italian Futurist artist Giacomo Balla later called his daughters Luce and Elettricità in memory of what he saw at the Paris Exposition. (A third daughter was Elica—Propellor—after the modern machinery he also admired.)

A medida que ha mejorado nuestra capacidad para matar, también nos hemos vuelto menos tolerantes con la violencia.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.

The gains from technology must be channeled to a broader base of the population than has benefited so far.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network.

New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology.

Technology fuels economy, unfortunately in today's world it's the fuel that drags economy

[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.