Quotes About Technology

If we can't work out how it's done, we'll Google it

I don't travel anywhere without the PS3 and XBox. There's nothing better to do on long bus trips while on tour.

When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first.

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

We were bullies in one of the poorest countries on Earth," Rapone said. "We have one of the most technologically advanced militaries of all time and all we were doing is brutalizing and invading and terrorizing a population that had nothing to do with what the United States claimed was a threat

Now that I finally have the time for it, this web surfing stuff turns out to be as interesting and fun and addictive as you've all been telling me. Zipping from link to link, chasing an idea across the noosphere, sucking up information like a killer whale - way cool.

Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

Most electronic machines, including all computers, speak a common language: binary math, in which all numbers, no matter how large, are represented as a combination of ones and zeroes. There are no other digits, and, surprisingly enough, no others are needed.

ICs with ten to a hundred million components? ICs whose basic operating units are not transistors but entire microprocessors, built by the million into chips smaller than a thumbtack? Incredible as it may seem, such devices are a distinct, and utterly glorious, possibility.

Computers are composed of nothing more than logic gates stretched out to the horizon in a vast numerical irrigation system.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

I can't believe the phone has its own room!

post-human intelligence might be made by us ourselves.

Nate jumped up and down, voice cracking as he talked. "It worked! It worked! My Taser worked! Ha! Oh yeah, oh yeah! I can't believe I got this thing on eBay!

When you got a giant killer robot, who needs metaphors?

Het is goedkoop als wij, die het woord 'veiligheid' allang als een schim uit ons vocabulaire hebben weggestreept, de optimistische waanvoorstelling van die door idealisme verblinde generatie nu belachelijk maken, het geloof dat de technische vooruitgang van de mensheid beslist een even snelle morele ontwikkeling ten gevolge moet hebben.

Electricity moves at a speed greater than thought, a speed too great for thought to grasp. These twelve words, which have landed like a white, soundless thunderbolt in the airless humidity of the Austrian post office, were written only minutes before and three countries away, in the cold blue shadow of glaciers, under the clear violet Engadine sky, and the ink was not even dry on the telegraph form when the message, the summons, burst upon a bewildered consciousness.

Es ist das ewige Staunen aller Naturkinder an allen Enden der Erde über die Kulturmenschen, denen eine Handvoll gelbes Metall kostbarer erscheint als alle geistigen und technischen Errungenschaften ihrer Kultur.

The world that our children will inherit is going to look substantially different, very quickly, than the world we have today. It's alarming.

I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.

armies could go through a lake of gas in the blink of an eye. Take the medium-sized German Panther tank, used from the middle of 1943 to the end of the war. The Panther carried a Maybach V-12 engine that got about a third of a mile per gallon on good roads, and even less than that

No one anticipated that this crazy push for speed—speed of the technology itself, and speed to discovery—would also be the root of personal disasters, of uncontrollable compulsivity, of endless pursuit culminating in an ultimate depression and despair.