Quotes About Technology

I guess you can run from Google, but you definitely can't hide.

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.

I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.

People can hide behind a screen. No one is going to do it at a match, in front of you, like throw a banana at a black player or something. They are very happy hiding behind a screen and being comfortable.

Gamers love technology, and they have high expectations.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, exported, or severely under-compensated, all the right behavior in the world won't create better jobs with more pay.

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.

We're pretty much Luddites when it comes to demos; we don't do anything too elaborate or high-tech.

The online education space, especially in higher education, is ripe for disruption.

Early CDs, I found, flattened out the sound - it took away all the highs.

I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.

Our highways and our roads are underutilized because of the allowances we have to make for human drivers.

I hate to be one of those people who forwards links to 'hilarious pictures' or 'brilliant games' to half their contacts database.

We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

Hocuspocus religions and archaic weapons are no substitute for a good blaster at your side

An angry electronic twang came from the Artoo unit. "Don't call me a mindless philosopher," Threepio snapped back, "you overweight, unstreamlined glob of grease!" Threepio

To look at these two, one would have supposed that the tall, humanlike machine, Threepio, was the master and the stubby, tripodal robot, Artoo Detoo, an inferior. But while Threepio might have sniffed disdainfully at the suggestion, they were in fact equal in everything save loquacity.

it's not the droid we're expecting, is it?

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further. With the development of television, and the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.

The tendency of mechanical progress is to make your environment safe and soft; and yet you are striving to keep yourself brave and hard...So in the last analysis the champion of progress is also the champion of anachronisms.

the people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens