Quotes About Technology

So even the transatlantic static couldn´t mask the lifeless quality of his words.

Today everything is so complex as to be incomprehensible. What sense does it make for men to walk on the moon while other men are waiting on welfare lines, or in Vietnam killing and dying for a corrupt dictatorship in the name of freedom?

Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.

When virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, society is doomed.

I asked how many guys would have sex with a robot if it was indistinguishable from a hot human woman. About 95 percent of the hetero guys said they would. The other 5 percent expressed a strong preference for lying.

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.

And bring me a hard copy of the Internet so I can do some serious surfing.

Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems.

I calculated the total time that humans have waited for web pages to load. It cancels out all the productivity gains of the information age. Sometimes I think the web is a big plot to keep people like me away from normal society.

As network administrator I can take down the network with one keystroke. It's just like being a doctor but without getting gooky stuff on my paws.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

I've always been a big fan of time travel, and I'm very into the notion that some day we'll be able to do it. Beam me up!

We develop ulcers, high blood pressure, headaches, and other physical problems in part because our stress systems aren't designed to handle the "dangers" of our brave new world: computer crashes, micromanaging bosses, 12-way conference calls, and long commutes in rush-hour traffic.

the only reason anything good ships is because of the programmers. They are everything. They are not factory employees; they are craftspeople, craftspeople who are the fundamental creative engine of making software.

Innovations often need to be explained in terms of the status quo, which is why automobiles are rated in horsepower and electric lights in

An amazing thing about our digital age is that the person next to you at Starbucks might just be hacking into a Swiss bank or launching multiwarhead nuclear missiles continents away.

GitHub has always been a fully distributed company, naturally reaching many of the same conclusions as Automattic about autonomy, empowerment, and trust.

Technology does have an impact on behavior, but culture comes first.

There's a degree of control that the filter of technology gives you—a control that introverts often prefer.

Remember that culture changes the value of tools: for example, if you have a team of people who hate each other, they will make each other miserable no matter how many billions of dollars of communication technology they use. Alternatively if you have people who trust each other and have similar goals, they'll be effective with smoke signals and carrier pigeons. Wars have been won by tightly knit armies using candles and Morse code.

The staff at WordPress.com call support "Happiness." Therefore it's not the support team, but the Happiness team. And people who work in support aren't called tech support staff; they're called Happiness Engineers (HE).

he possesses uncommon patience. He rarely checked his phones or gadgets. When he was in the room, he was fully present and generous with his attention. He listened. More so, he was an amazing manager of his personal time and attention.

Not being able to look folks in the eye in tough situations feels wrong. Would you propose marriage to someone online? Or tell a child her mother was dead in a text message? I worried that what made me good at work wouldn't transfer to a completely online environment.

no one sees, no one hears cries of despair not very dreamlike; a sense that we're all robots controlled by psychotic state of mind these days. Orwell wasn't far off, just a few years.