Quotes About Technology

With the price of today's batteries, EV owners save money only if gas costs more than around $3 per gallon.

If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod.

New Rule: You can't force the ATM to do something it doesn't want to do. Excuse me, lady in front of me at the Citibank ATM, but you've been standing there punching buttons for ten minutes--what are you trying to do, write a novel on it? You hear those beeping noises? That's the ATM saying, Stop it, you're hurting me. A chicken would have gotten forty bucks out of that thing by now just by pecking the buttons randomly.

New Rule: Stop putting psychedelic screensavers on computers. I sit down to check my e-mail, and the next thing I know it's three days later, I'm in the desert, I'm banging on a drum, I'm naked, and somebody's pierced my dick.

New Rule: Instead of using their $10 billion atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider to re-create the Big Bang by melting atom parts in temperatures a million times hotter than the sun, scientists should not do that. I'm just sayin' it sounds dangerous. I'm as interested as the next guy in determining the origin of matter, but first couldn't we solve some simple mystery, like why some-detector batteries always die at four a.m.?

New Rule: Apple's next device must be a computer that you control with your tongue. Thanks for eliminating the keyboard and the mouse, but pointing and pushing at things already seems too complicated and tiring. We're Americans--and until you free our hands from the computer entirely, we can never attain our ultimate goal: Web surfing while eating and masturbating.

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

Quick! To the Bat-Fax!

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel.

Exitem apenas dois tipos de linguagens: Aquelas que as pessoas reclamam de usar, e aquelas que as pessoas não usam.

The fact that 'goto' can do anything is exactly why we don't use it.

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out!

They said smart bombs would do the job, but they didn't either, contrary to what CNN and the Discovery channel tout on their specials.

Trump, who doesn't touch type or use a keyboard

Today's internet bloggers and television's talking heads don't have that [a partnership]. No safety net. No brakes. No one there to question, doubt or inspire. No editor. [Carl Bernstein's A reporter's assessment]

when Twitter announced the number of permissible characters in a single tweet was being doubled from 140 to 280, Trump told Porter he thought the change made sense on one level. Now he would be able to flesh out his thoughts and add more depth. "It's a good thing," Trump said, "but it's a bit of a shame because I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

It's a good thing, Trump said, but it's a bit of a shame because I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

It's a good thing," Trump said, "but it's a bit of a shame because I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters.

I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles, he said. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls.

In the days before deathly contrivances hustled them through their lives, and when they had no telephones—another ancient vacancy profoundly responsible for leisure—they had time for everything: time to think, to talk, time to read, time to wait for a lady!