Quotes About Technology

I've never had WiFi at home. I'm too easily distracted, and YouTube is too tempting.

You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you've done nothing good for yourself. That's the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.

I think my first big purchase was actually for my mom. She had one of those '90s TVs in her living room that's like a 10x10 brick, so I purchased her a flatscreen for her living room.

When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.

The murder rate is being held down by medical technology

You might be surprised to learn that a yo-yo controlled by 1992 World Champion Dale Oliver was actually clocked at a blistering 14,300 revolutions per minute (rpm). Conversely, the Hornet plods along at a slower 2200 rpm. This is the same aircraft engine, however, that catapulted legendary aviator Roscoe Turner to victory in his Hornet-powered Wedell-Turner racer during the 1934 Thompson Trophy Race. During this race, Turner was able to sustain speeds in excess of 290 mph.

The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.

Behind every screen on your phone, there are literally a thousand engineers that have worked on this thing to try to make it maximally addicting

literally designed to keep us trapped in a constant state of conflict, suspense, and panic: social technology.

According to Aza Raskin, the smartphone's infinite scroll feature (which allows us to swipe down continuously without clicking) was deliberately built to be habit-forming. He should know. He's the engineer who created it.

There were no PCs when I started programming on computers.

gasp, have to walk across the room and put discs in the tray by hand),

The observers — members of Microsoft's User Research Group — diligently note each click, key press, and hesitation, hoping they'll learn the answer to the industry's big secret: why do so many people find computers difficult to use?

Windows 7 is like a pumpkin: handsome and plump on the outside, but a big mess on the inside. So get out your knife and start carving.

Ironically, the internal version number of Windows 7 is version 6.1,[1] which implies that Microsoft considers its newest operating system to be a (relatively) minor revision of Windows Vista (version 6.0).

Go get yourself a nice cup of tea while Windows copies half a million files to your hard disk and reboots a few times.

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The man persisted. "No, no, no. It was so funny. What software did you use? - apparently in the belief that the software had built-in humor generation.

Stay the patient course Of little worth is your ire The network is down

No. My electronics run on two hundred tiny betavoltaic diamond batteries made from radioactive carbon-14. My physical form will wear out long before they ever run out of power, in about six thousand years.

Facebook. No matter what else they're doin', these bastards never miss checking in on Facebook every day, several times a day. They go on, look at what people are sayin' on their pages, sometimes they answer and sometimes they don't and then they go back to their drug dealin' ways.

Today visionaries have access to the technology to upgrade humanity, and terminate the race in the process. Yesterday's visionaries are today's messiahs and angels of death.

She merely copied the URL of the person's profile picture, then pasted it into a browser and removed a section of it, then hit enter, and she had all of their photos available instantly. Sam's eyebrows went up. "I didn't think there was a way around Facebook's privacy settings." She smiled at him. "Puh-lease," she said. "Did you forget who you're talking to, here? Actually, that's a pretty simple hack that's all over the internet. Anyone

action would take place. Something buzzed past his head and Roscoe smiled. The camera drone hovered just ahead of him, floating backward so that it could keep its lens focused on his face. Roscoe ignored it, keeping his eyes moving as he looked ahead for any surprises that might be waiting for him. The camera drone rose up above and then moved away, and Roscoe continued his