Quotes About Technology

I think that the Internet - and I do love the free flow of ideas on the 'Net - is like the wild west of the information world.

My next door neighbor just had a pacemaker installed. They're still working the bugs out, though. Every time he makes love, my garage door opens.

I love taking an idea... to a prototype and then to a product that millions of people use.

As pressures build for life to become more quantified and machine-like, so does the drive to make machines more life-like.

David Jenkins has observed that "The impression has begun to get about that the Industrial Revolution is not going to work out after all.

Artificiality and work have steadily increased since its inception and are known as culture: in domesticating animals and plants man necessarily domesticated himself.

If machines can be human, humans can be machines.

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are ready and willing to do the right thing, just as Jack was. Their distractions are greater, though. There's no more simple life with simple choices for the young.

What I heard one of the veteran black hats say to a trainee remains true today: "Social engineering is the easiest way to break into a system.

Can whoever left me a voicemail please send me a text telling me whether it's worth listening to?

Microwave Oven - When you zap, your food turns to crap. -Johnny The Walker

Maybe he talks through one of those devices. Like that scientist bloke. The one on The Simpsons .

Why do you think nobody writes love letters like these anymore?" she says instead, pulling one from her bag. "I mean, yes, there are texts and e-mails and things, but nobody sends them in language like this, do they? Nobody spells it out anymore like our unknown lover did.

And I pressed send, realizing, as it whooshed into the ether, that I had now condemned myself to unknown hours of e-mail-related anxiety while I waited for him to respond

When he saw the content of my MP3 player one afternoon, he laughed so hard he nearly dislodged one of his tubes.

We were using FaceTime Audio, which I preferred to us looking at each other's faces as we talked—I got distracted by the way my nose seemed enormous, or what someone was doing behind me. I also didn't want her to see the size of the buttered muffins I was eating.

Mr. BlackBerry makes me feel like Miss Gooseberry." The pout again. "I feel like there's always a third person vying for your attention.

Everything takes time, Will. And that's something your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your wag almost instantaneously.

When he saw the contents of my MP3 player one afternoon, he laughed so hard he nearly dislodged one of his tubes.

The answer pinged back within seconds. I smiled. How did girls that age type so quickly when they did everything else so slowly?

proved that technical problems can have artistic solutions

These operations move memory around, perform some sort of basic math, or interrupt the processor to get it to do something else. In the end, that's all a computer processor can really do. But in the same way millions of books have been written using a relatively small alphabet of letters, an infinite number of possible programs can be created using a relatively small collection of machine instructions.

The 8086 CPU was the first x86 processor. It was developed and manufactured by Intel, which later developed more advanced processors in the same family: the 80186, 80286, 80386, and 80486. If you remember people talking about 386 and 486 processors in the '80s and '90s, this is what they were referring to.