Quotes About Technology

Many Internet IPOs rose 1,000% or more in 1999 and early 2000; most of them lost more than 95% in the subsequent three years. How could these early gains earned by a few investors justify the massive destruction of wealth suffered by the millions who came later? Many IPOs were, in fact, deliberately underpriced to "manufacture" immediate gains that would attract more attention for the next offering.

People talking on handless devices always remind me of mental patients talking to themselves.

and I passed an Arby's and The Store before my GPS told me to turn right off the main street.

Trump and Zuckerberg, though they probably agree on nothing, are the two blades of a pair of scissors that is cutting the fabric of truth to ribbons.

When any of us surfs the Web, when we do a search or make a purchase, or even when a Turkish, Egyptian, or Russian dissident communicates via Skype or FaceTime, we leave behind us fingerprints that Big Brother will use in any way that pleases him, whether it is to cash in or clamp down.

People have to share everything they do these days, from meals, to nights out, to selfies of themselves half naked in a mirror The borders between public and private are dissolving

earthquake P-waves had reportedly been made with microphones

Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

When men assimilate themselves to machines and value only the consequences of their work, not the work itself, style disappears, to be replaced by something which to the mechanised man appears more natural, though in fact is only more brutal.

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right evenly distributed throughout the community. The morality of work is the morality of slaves, and the modern world has no need of slavery.

Will machines destroy emotions or will emotions destroy machines?

One hundred and fifty years of science have proved more explosive than five thousand years of prescientific culture. It would be absurd to suppose that the explosive power of science is exhausted, or has even reached its maximum. It is far more likely that science will continue for centuries to come to produce more and more rapid changes.

Bir trenle Kaliforniya ovalar?n? geçerken bir sabun reklam?n?n hoparlörden yükselen gürültüsünü duymamaya çal???yordum; o s?rada yaÅŸl? bir çiftçi güleç bir yüzle yan?ma yaklaÅŸarak, Bu zamanda nereye gidersen git, uygarl?ktan yakan? kurtaramazs?n, dedi. Heyhat! Ne kadar doÄŸru!..

Modern technique has made it possible for leisure, within limits, to be not the prerogative of small privileged classes, but a right distributed throughout the community

The mechanistic age impended over an horizon not hostile, but silently indifferent.

The wind in the wires is like the tearing of soft silk under the blended drone of engine and propeller.

I support both Democrats and Republicans on many issues. I'm more interested in where they are on technology.

The good news is the Republicans have started to say the right things about net neutrality. The bad news is we're not particularly close on what a bill would look like.

The Internet does not have a reputation as being a particularly civilized place.

Israel now has a reputation around the world of being not just a place to develop products and technology but to develop ideas.

When you request a Lyft, 90% of the time, there is someone else going within a half mile of your destination. We've seen this on our platform, so now we're matching up these rides for a discount.

Once Google is selected to run the infrastructure on which we are changing the world, Google will be there for ever. Democratic accountability will not be prevalent. You cannot file a public information request about Google.

Every time you load a webpage is a HTTP request. That's a lot of HTTP requests. If you are earning bitcoin on every HTTP request, that could be a lot of earned bitcoins.