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Quotes About Technology

an Enigma machine, a set of gears of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, a
~ Douglas Preston
The three-million-dollar Omega-9 Parallel Processing Computer, which took up a series of large gray boxes along one wall, was now completely silent.
~ Douglas Preston
Krugle-like search engine
~ Douglas Preston
drug is going to end warfare as we know it." "That's what Alfred Nobel said when he invented dynamite.
~ Douglas Preston
In five days, lidar had accomplished seven times more than the Chases had achieved in twenty-five years.
~ Douglas Preston
I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
~ Agatha Christie
The old gentleman refuses to have the telephone which he regards as a device of the devil, and on a par with radio, television, cinema organs and jet planes, so I had to take a chance of finding him at home.
~ Agatha Christie
It is romantic, you know, the transatlantic telephone. To speak so easily to someone nearly halfway across the globe. The telegraphed photograph - that, too, is romantic. Science is the greatest romance there is.
~ Agatha Christie
Do you know what you sound like?' said Mrs. Oliver. 'A computer. You know. You're programming yourself. That's what they call it, isn't it? I mean you're feeding all these things into yourself all day and then you're going to see what comes out.
~ Agatha Christie
these twitterers can tell one a lot if one just lets them—twitter!
~ Agatha Christie
Mr Satterthwaite clucked twice in vexation. Whether right in his assumption or not, he was more and more convinced that cars nowadays broke down far more frequently than they used to do.
~ Agatha Christie
There have been those among us who have been so dazzled by the might and technological wizardy of Europe that they have been rather a man who stands lost in admiration at the gun that is raised to shoot him.
~ Ahdaf Soueif
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product it's an understanding of human nature.
~ Ai Weiwei
There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
~ Aimee Mann
How can you not tweet? How else will people know what you ate for breakfast or what you are listening to on Spotify or what your gamerscore is? Ridiculous. Not tweeting is not an option. I am a dolt for even suggesting it.
~ Aisha Tyler
The Internet is where stupid goes to find stupider so it doesn't have to feel so stupid.
~ Aisha Tyler
Human beings have launched satellites into outer space, and yet they still grovel on earth looking at their own feet like wild dogs. What is to become of our planet?
~ Akira Kurosawa
Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight
~ Al Boliska
I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
~ Al Gore
The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.
~ Al Gore
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
~ Al Gore (Jr.)
Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.
~ Al Jardine
We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way.
~ Al Jarreau
In the stress and strain of life today, with space rockets zooming, loudspeakers thundering in our ears, and a lot of other sounds, the voice of your subconscious goes unnoticed.
~ Al Koran