Technology Quotes

I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition theusers to employ each other the way they employ machines.

~ Frank Herbert

To be honest, my life has exhibited many strange and sometimes troubling characteristics, but shortness is not one of them. It feels like an eternity since I started school and a techno-social epoch since I moved to San Francisco. My phone couldn't even connect to the internet back then.

~ Robin Sloan

Technology doesn’t change people’s basic needs or their natures.

~ Priya Ardis

Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this planet not ever....It will be far cheaper, and entail no risk to human life, to explore space with robots. The technology is already well along....the real thrill will be in learning in detail what is out there...It is an especially dangerous delusion if we see emigration into space as a solution to be taken when we have used up this planet....Earth, by the twenty-second century, can be turned, if we so wish, into a permanent paradise for human beings...

~ Edward O. Wilson

When we introduce new technologies into our classrooms we are teaching our students twice.

~ Michael Joseph Brown

Using Facebook is like taking a Dyson to your spare time.

~ Gemini Adams

She hung up before he could say goodbye. Stood there with her arm cocked, phone at ear-level, suddenly aware of the iconic nature of her unconscious pose. Some very considerable part of the gestural language of public places, that had once belong to cigarettes, now belonged to phones.

~ William Gibson

In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

~ Morinosuke Kawaguchi

Progress in science and technology is real, but it builds on past truths without rejecting them. Computers don’t have to be re-invented in order to keep getting better; innovations expand what they already do. Knowledge accumulates, so it can increase. Scientists and engineers know this, but artists, authors, and philosophers keep trying to start over from ground zero in the humanities. Thus, they don’t really progress—they become primitive.

~ Gene Edward Veith Jr.

Best not to take, yet doubt its strength,A leash with Demons at its length.

~ Mckenzie Bodkin

But aside from a few migraines, you can't possibly imagine any OBEY drawbacks that CEASE REPRODUCTION could come with SUBMIT merging CONSUME your thoughts with EMBRACE YOUR CULLING experimental technology CONFORM TO SOCIAL ORDER from an STAY ASLEEP extremely powerful DIE corporation, wait what?

~ Andrew Hussie

In an age of infinite digital documentation, paper was the last safe place for secrets.

~ Evan Angler

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

~ Julian Barnes

A tap is a zero-length swipe.

~ Apple Inc.

The overwhelming noise we live with has made a fundamental pleasure like sex somehow less exciting, less satisfying, than it was for our libidinous forefathers and mothers. It seems to me that for sex and other pleasures to be enjoyed to the fullest, a certain contemplative quality to life must be present. If you doubt this imagine yourself for a moment having sex. Now imagine you wished to increase the pleasure you were feeling, feel it more intensely. What might you do? Well one of the things you'd probably do is close your eyes. What this does of course is shut out other stimuli. The visual quiet increases your sensual enjoyment and you concentrate more fully on the pleasure. The same is true for the removal of auditory noise as well. Well my feeling is that the average person has a much harder time doing this today than they would have decades ago. Today you close your eyes and shut off Television but the noise persists. It's part of our fabric now, our biology, and all other pleasures including sex are diminished as a result. We don't notice this derogation by the way and sex still feels great, don't get me wrong, but I think the difference is there nonetheless. Like the difference between seeing breasts when you're thirty as opposed to when you were thirteen.

~ Sergio De La Pava

The information age is so psychotic – without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.

~ Lauren Barnholdt

People, there's no such thing as, THE BEST CAMERA BRAND, but yes there will always be THE BEST CAMERA AT ANY GIVEN TIME. Technology will change, but not art.

~ Ashraf Saharudin

I've heard it said that technology makes a good person better, and it makes a bad person worse. That's okay with me. I say we keep building new versions of ourselves, keep exploring the unknown, and keep growing. We're gonna be fine. Different, but fine.

~ Daniel H. Wilson

When you stand inside somebody's library, you get a powerful sense of who they are, and not just who they are now but who they've been. . . . It's a wonderful thing to have in a house. It's something I worry is endangered by the rise of the e-book. When you turn off an e-book, there's no map. All that's left behind is a chunk of gray plastic. ~ Lev Grossman

~ Leah Price

Just as television didn't put an end to radio or the movies (to say nothing of books), I don't think e-books will put an end to hard copies, even for someone like me who loves technology and does not fetishize the physical medium of books. ~ Steven Pinker, author of The Lauguage Instinct, How the Mind Works The Blank Slate and The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature.

~ Leah Price

Someday, it will be hard to remember why we were once so fired up about 3G connectivity and the wonders of mobile broadband. Seamless, lightning-fast connectedness will be a given everywhere on Earth, and today's gadgets will be quaint museum pieces. At that point, all we'll care about is what kind of life these devices have created for us. And if it isn't a good life, we'll wonder what we did wrong.

~ William Powers

She flipped through the pages of her apps, as if Apple made an app for Escape from a deserted island.

~ Kimberly Kinrade

We continuously enhance our knowledge base be it latest in technology, market scenario or customer requirements.

~ Uae Exchange

I was impressed by the scene in Apollo 13 where the astronauts request confirmation of their calculations and several people at Mission Control dive for their slide rules. For several months after that, my standard response to statements like We must implement multi-processor object-oriented Java-based client-server technologies immediately! was You know, FORTRAN and slide rules put men on the moon and got them back safely multiple times.Tended to shut them up, at least for a moment.

~ Matt Roberts

RE: Kindle, iPad, et cetera: For a researcher, these new ways of accessing information are just extraordinary. I thing it introduces the possibility of a new standard of cognitive exactness and precision. ~ Rebecca Goldstein, author of Properties of Light: A Novel of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics.

~ Leah Price

To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.

~ Ray Bradbury

We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now.

~ Ray Bradbury

All science is either Physics or stamp-collecting.

~ Lord Kelvin

As far as the laws of Mathematics refer to reality they are not certain and as far as they are certain they do not refer to reality.

~ Albert Einstein

He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.

~ H. G. Wells

I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

~ John F. Kennedy

If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.

~ George Santayana

If the human race wants to go to Hell in a basket technology can help it get there by jet.

~ Charles M. Allen

In science all facts no matter how trivial or banal enjoy democratic equality.

~ Mary Mccarthy

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

~ James Jeans

Light is the ultimate messenger of the universe.

~ Bbc World Service

Most science is only high falutin' nature studies.

~ Stephen Strauss

My advice is to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.

~ Marcel Pagnol

Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.

~ Martin Friedman

Reason observation and experience - the Holy Trinity of Science.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll