Quotes About Technology

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison -- if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

For the most part, our educational systems remain rooted in the outdated and fractured Prussian model, which teaches people to take orders rather than think for themselves. Paired with the technological advances in communications, we are left swimming in an ever-engulfing sea of facts, unable to find meaning, never mind wisdom.

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway."

The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.

First colonized by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh, in 1583, St John's has ever since been an important outpost of the Americas. Home port of the vast Grand Banks cod fishing fleet, it was here, on Signal Hill, that Marconi received the first transatlantic wireless message in 1901, and from here Alcock and Brown took off to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919.

Humans don't excel at performing repetitive manual work.

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.

Better than those mobile phones the young ones check hundreds of times a day which makes them go mental She's read about it in the paper Besides, why replace her old phone when it's still in good working order, sits on the console by the front door, attached to a wire that's attached to a socket Telephone conversations should be kept short and had standing Far as she's concerned

To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.

In the modern world, broadband is a necessity, not a luxury.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

und eure neuen Maschinen mögen nur neue Drangsale bedeuten. Ihr mögt mit der Zeit alles entdecken, was es zu entdecken gibt, und euer Fortschritt wird doch nur ein Fortschritt von der Menschheit weg sein. Die Kluft zwischen euch und ihr kann eines Tages so groß werden, dass euer Jubelschrei über irgendeine neue Errungenschaft von einem universalen Entsetzensschrei beantwortet werden könnte.

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle It smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. But it has one defect: It needs a driver. General, your bomber is powerful. It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant. But it has one defect: It needs a mechanic. General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.

One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day this will be an airborne life. But by then men will have forgotten how to fly; they will be passengers on machines whose conductors are carefully promoted to a familiarity with labelled buttons, and in whose minds knowledge of the sky and the wind and the way of weather will be extraneous as passing fiction.

All the young tech workers were still in their tech boxes or on their tech commuter buses with faces fixed to their screens doing their tech jobs. My catch-all phrase for whatever it was they did was Petting the Glass. Everywhere I looked nowadays people were Petting the Glass.

God shined down his light on our fair city and conferred an Apple Store upon us. Did I really have any reason to complain?

Facebook may connect us across the world and throughout eternity, but it won't deliver a pot roast.

Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.

I think we live in a multi-device world. You're gonna have a tablet computer. Like an iPad or one of it's competitors. You're gonna have a smart phone. You're gonna have a laptop. You know, the tablet computer isn't going to displace the laptop because there are times when you want to write a long memo or a long email message or an article ... if you want to sit down and read a 300 page book, the kindle is the perfect device.

The secret is we're on, like, our seventh generation of fulfillment centers. And we have gotten better every time. When I was driving the packages myself, one of my visualizations of success is that we might one day be big enough that we could afford a forklift.

You can have the best technology, you can have the best business model, but if the storytelling isn't amazing, it won't matter. Nobody will watch.

We're building what's called a private cloud for them [the C.I.A.] ... because they don't want to be on the public cloud.

The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.