Quotes About Technology

I'd like to own Intel... I'd like to own Microsoft... I'd love to have Warner Bros in my hip pocket.

I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.

I love science fiction. I read a lot of science fiction.

There's more monitoring now. Kids don't play unsupervised. Everyone has a phone. Back then, even little kids went out to play on their own, sometimes all day. Kids rode their bikes all around town. I was considered a hardass for doing spot bed checks and having a lot of rules. So people in town were very good to me after it happened

I felt vaguely outraged that such a bad person had such a good car. Because the car was the culmination of a thousand-odd years of scientific advancement. But the guy was a dick. I wondered when that had happened; that we had started making better machines than people.

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The jetpod. Two harnesses up front, facing actual manual controls. Two at the rear. Lots of padding. A whole bunch of lockers, with reliable heavy-weight fonts designating which piece of impractical equipment they contained: beacons, medkits, material converters. Everywhere were handles. She could trace the inspiration of this design back to bright, plastic toys for babies, with levers and keys that made clicking sounds.

Blind tastete ich auf dem Nachttisch herum, und meine Finger schoben sich zwischen Romane, die ich nicht mehr las, weil man einfach nicht zurück konnte, wenn man erst mal mit E-Books angefangen hatte.

Ich hatte zwar einen Laptop, doch er brauchte ewig zum Hochfahren – über eine Minute. Demnach war ich gezwungen, mir ohne Informationen über die Umweltbedingungen Kleider auszusuchen. Der helle Wahnsinn.

Because Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

History has proven that a well-trained individual, with nothing but a rock, has a better chance of survival than a novice with the latest technological marvel.

We split the atom, we reached the moon, we've filled every household and business with more gadgets and gizmos than early sci-fi writers could have ever dreamed of.

RYSSDAL: Suck on that, Elon Musk. TONY: No, no, I love Elon, he's a good guy, but he does have some catching up to do.

To the folks at Mojang, Lydia

War against puerperal fever. Caesarean operations. Incubators for premature births. We take life more seriously than in earlier times.

Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body—we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!

To be consistent, those who argue that abortion is "unnatural" would have to say: no penicillin, no lightning rods, no eyeglasses, no DDT, no radar and so on.

In our parents' day the nightly news communicated the catastrophe. Now it is a matter of minutes. We've barely processed one crisis, and then we hear of another.

Machines do things very quickly and outside the natural rhythm of life, and we are indignant if a car doesn't start at the first try. So the few things that we still do, such as cooking (though there are TV dinners!), knitting, gardening, anything at all that cannot be hurried, have a very particular value.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.

se había emocionado muchísimo cuando le regaló un lector nuevo —la última versión— además de una colección entera digital de sus libros favoritos ya metidos en el lector.

She'd be thrilled when he'd presented her with a brand-new e-reader - the latest upgrade-along with an entire collection of her favorite books in digital, loaded onto the reader. She'd thrown her arms aroud him and hugged and kissed him so exuberantly that he'd laughed. But then he did that alot around her. Laughed

Mr. Greer timed all our speeches with an oven timer. Things were nothing at Tribeca Alternative, considered one of Manhattan's finest prep schools, if not high tech.

I just got a fortune cookie that says Turn off your computer and read a book which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!