Technology Quotes

A world without glass would strike at the foundation of modern progress: the extended lifespans that come from understanding the cell, the virus, and the bacterium; the genetic knowledge of what makes us human; the astronomer's knowledge of our place in the universe. No material on Earth mattered more to those conceptual breakthroughs than glass.

~ Steven Johnson

Hertzfeld recalled that Gates just sat there coolly, looking at Steve in the eye, before hurling back, in his squeaky voice, what became a classic zinger. Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it, I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it.

~ Walter Isaacson

I believe there no surer path to leaping dramatically forward in your career than to earn a Ph.D. in the humanities. Because the thought leaders in our industry are not the ones who plodded dully, step by step, up the career ladder. The leaders are the ones who took chances and developed unique perspectives.

~ Damon Horowitz

The happiest people aren't necessarily the most successful, or the most popular, or the most talented. They're the ones who are interested in the people around them.

~ Katie Kacvinsky

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

We may well find that if we are to fulfill God's mandate on earth, we will need to communicate less often so we can communicate more. We will need to forsake the ease and the pace of quantity for the reflective significance of quality.

~ Tim Challies

Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony.

~ Ashly Lorenzana

The messages must be stuck somewhere in the tube of light underneath the ocean that connects London and New York.

~ Olivia Sudjic

Reality took forever — the underwater way people walked and sent their voices wobbling through the air, how printed words lay inert like bugsplat, all manifesting the basic DUH of the physical plane. By the time he decided to go anywhere he wondered why he wasn't there already. As soon as he sent an email he felt he should already have the reply. And learning any fact, he was annoyed not to have known it already, because whenever anything happened, the conversation around it had already trended and backlashed and been reexamined and swallowed and shat and reswallowed and reshat in a thousand places online, until all thinking felt redundant. We needed brain-to-brain; only then would we catch up to real time. Right now everything progressed so slowly that by the time we arrived at the future it was the present again.

~ Tony Tulathimutte

I like the way Twitter makes one be more concise.It looks like someone is saying sometthing wise

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Throw an idea into the world and its impact will ripple and reverberate beyond your side of the shore.

~ A.e. Samaan

Sometimes I think it is because we remember when we could smoke in pubs, and that we pull our phones out together as once we pulled out our cigarette packets. But probably it’s because we are easily bored.

~ Neil Gaiman

Communication is now often experienced as a superhuman phenomenon that towers above individuals. A new generation has come of age with a reduced expectation of what a person can be, and of who each person might become.

~ Jaron Lanier

A rival editor in Philadelphia said that the spreading railroad network carried New York everywhere in terms of the city's predominant influence.

~ Harold Holzer

It really was amazing, thought Mindy, the way modern electronics made it so easy to ignore those people who were physically so close.

~ James Rozoff

The telephone was a sign of being rushed.

~ David Halberstam

I hate how it’s so much easier to be open and straightforward to a computer screen than to an actual person.

~ Daria Snadowsky

Now we have so many methods of communication: Land phone, Fax, Pager, Mobile phone, Texting, E mail, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...and the list keeps growing.......But Communication itself has not improved!

~ Ankala V Subbarao

Technology is great...when it works.

~ Bobby Darnell

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.

~ Iain Banks

A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In many ways, the steamships of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries had become the secular equivalent of medieval cathedrals. They were the source of endless pride to the communities and nations that built them, and were just as much an expression of men's hopes and dreams of technical perfection as the great churches had once been of hopes for spiritual purity.

~ Daniel Allen Butler

The inventors of tools enhance civilization,but the author of ideas enables them to invent.

~ Toba Beta

I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer screen like a disorientated moth, one searching for a flaming light of recognition from someone/anyone!

~ Tom Conrad

For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration.

~ Joseph Epstein

I have a friend — or had a friend, now dead — Abdus Salam, a very devout Muslim, who was trying to bring science into the universities in the Gulf states and he told me that he had a terrible time because, although they were very receptive to technology, they felt that science would be a corrosive to religious belief, and they were worried about it… and damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive of religious belief, and it’s a good thing too.

~ Steven Weinberg

Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing the greatness that Muslims achieved in the past, or debating who first discovered the number zero, including the number one, two, three and so on, as the contribution of Muslims in the writing of numbers in this modern era and the foundation and development of civilizations throughout the world. But how Muslims will regained the lead and control of science and technology, leading back and become a leader in the world of science and civilization, because it represents a real achievement.

~ Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie

No institute of science and technology can guarantee discoveries or inventions, and we cannot plan or command a work of genius at will. But do we give sufficient thought to the nurture of the young investigator, to providing the right atmosphere and conditions of work and full opportunity for development? It is these things that foster invention and discovery.

~ J.r.d. Tata

The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world of infinite resources.

~ Robert Hughes

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

~ Brandon Stanton

There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.

~ Philip K. Dick

You can get to oppression through regulation, especially in an Idea Economy which necessitates liberty of the mind to explore.

~ A.e. Samaan

Even though we don't know which companies the NSA has compromised – or by what means – knowing that they could have compromised any of them is enough to make us mistrustful of all of them. This is going to make it hard for large companies like Google and Microsoft to get back the trust they lost. Even if they succeed in limiting government surveillance. Even if they succeed in improving their own internal security. The best they'll be able to say is: We have secured ourselves from the NSA, except for the parts that we either don't know about or can't talk about.

~ Bruce Schneier

We should’ve thrown fucking riots the first time they had us ring up and bag our owngroceries

~ Phil Volatile

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.

~ Bill Maher

When all the people in the world become technology and technology becomes the people, we shall see a new world!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Amazin'.' he said again. 'He just looks as though he's thinking, right?''Er...yes.''But he's not actually thinking?''Er...no.''So...he just gives the impression of thinking but really it's just a show?''Er...yes.'Just like everyone else, then really,' said Ridcully

~ Terry Pratchett

What if Theater was the Pong of the the digital Ping?A place where the live experience has an function?

~ Natasha Tsakos

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.

~ Steven M. Greer

I hate all electronic toys: cell phones, e-mail, PalmPilots, handheld Global Positioning System equipment, and the whole raft of gadgets that intrude on solitude.When I was a kid I used to disappear into the woods all day. Now I can walk in the wilderness without wasting my valuable time. As I hike along I can call anyone in the world, schedule an appointment, take a picture of me standing next to a tree and then send the person a map so he or she can join me there. Solitude has been snuffed out.

~ David Skibbins