Quotes About Technology

When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that's worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.

Futurist Faith Popcorn goes even further. By the year 2010, she predicts, 90 percent of all consumer products will be home-delivered. "They'll put a refrigerator in your garage and bar code your kitchen. Every week they'll restock your favorites, without your ever having to reorder. They'll even pick up your dry cleaning, return your videotapes, whatever you need.

And Willis Moore, the bureau director, who did so much in 1900 to deny the reality—first the existence, and then the path—of the most destructive hurricane ever to arrive in the United States, and did so much to prevent Galvestonians from learning about it in advance, continued his career too. As director, Moore oversaw such changes in weather technology as

Modern people are only willing to believe in their computers, while I believe in myself.

Digital transformation therefore requires redesign and re-engineering on every level – people, process, technology and governance.

Eric Raymond says, "Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to reuse.

Like putting an Armani suit on Attila the Hun, interface design only tells how to dress up an existing behavior.

You can predict which features in any new technology will be used and which won't. The use of a feature is inversely proportional to the amount of interaction needed to control

The Only Thing More Expensive Than Writing Software Is Writing Bad Software

When programmers speak of "computer literacy," they are drawing red lines around ethnic groups, too, yet few have pointed this out.

Computer literacy, however, is really a euphemism for forcing human beings to stretch their thinking to understand the inner workings of application logic, rather than having software-enabled products stretch to meet people's usual ways of thinking.

Generally, programmers aren't thrilled about the iterative method because it means extra work for them. Typically, it's managers new to technology who like the iterative process because it relieves them of having to perform rigorous planning, thinking, and product due diligence

There is a lot of obsessive behavior in Silicon Valley about time to market. It is frequently asserted that shipping a product right now is far better than shipping it later.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we should have people standing in the corners of our rooms.

Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.

Never underestimate a droid

life is not a technological ladder, it is more of a cultural wheel.

the prototype version of the Internet, the Arpanet, was developed in nineteen sixty-nine, at UCLA. Nineteen sixty-nine.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that bar code scanners at checkout counters increased the speed that cashiers could ring up payments by 30 percent and reduced labor requirements of cashiers and baggers by 10 to 15 percent.

Four decades after Thomas Edison's spectacular illumination of Lower Manhattan in 1882, electricity had done little to make the country's factories more productive.

America's share of the world's patents has increased from 10 percent when Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980 to 20 percent today.

the blogosphere is the friend of information but the enemy of thought.

Anyone know how USB drives work?

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