Technology Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.”
– Edward R. Murrow

“The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.”
– Edward Teller

“One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums.”
– Eoin Colfer

“The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there’s no law against whacking them around a bit.”
– Eric Porterfield

“It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.”
– Esther Dyson

“It may not always be profitable at first for a business to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online. ”
– Esther Dyson.

“We have not noticed how fast the rest has risen. Most of the industrialized world–and a good part of the nonindustrialized world as well–has better cell phone service than the United States. Broadband is faster and cheaper across the industrial world, from Canada to France to Japan, and the United States now stands sixteenth in the world in broadband penetration per capita. Americans are constantly told by their politicians that the only thing we have to learn from other countries’ health care systems is to be thankful for ours. Most Americans ignore the fact that a third of the country’s public schools are totally dysfunctional (because their children go to the other two-thirds). The American litigation system is now routinely referred to as a huge cost to doing business, but no one dares propose any reform of it. Our mortgage deduction for housing costs a staggering $80 billion a year, and we are told it is crucial to support home ownership, except that Margaret Thatcher eliminated it in Britain, and yet that country has the same rate of home ownership as the United States. We rarely look around and notice other options and alternatives, convinced that “we’re number one.”
– Fareed Zakaria

“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the pushbutton finger.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright

“Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.”
– Fred Allen

“Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.”
– Freeman Dyson

“The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. A good example of a simple technology with profound historical consequences is hay. Nobody knows who invented hay, the idea of cutting grass in the autumn and storing it in large enough quantities to keep horses and cows alive through the winter. All we know is that the technology of hay was unknown to the Roman Empire but was known to every village of medieval Europe. Like many other crucially important technologies, hay emerged anonymously during the so-called Dark Ages. According to the Hay Theory of History, the invention of hay was the decisive event which moved the center of gravity of urban civilization from the Mediterranean basin to Northern and Western Europe. The Roman Empire did not need hay because in a Mediterranean climate the grass grows well enough in winter for animals to graze. North of the Alps, great cities dependent on horses and oxen for motive power could not exist without hay. So it was hay that allowed populations to grow and civilizations to flourish among the forests of Northern Europe. Hay moved the greatness of Rome to Paris and London, and later to Berlin and Moscow and New York.”
– Freeman Dyson

“Hi there,” squeaked a precocious little voice, “you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.”
– Gabrielle Zevin

“There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.”
– George W. Bush

“There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.”
– Georges Pompidou

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
– Gertrude Stein

“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.”
– Graham Greene

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“The Internet? Is that thing still around? ”
– Homer Simpson.

“Java is C++ without guns, knives and clubs. ”
– James Gosling (Co-inventor of Java).

“They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.”
– Janet Reno

“Technology has to be invented or adopted.”
– Jared Diamond

“I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it’s too expensive to change the interface.”
– Jaron Lanier

“Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.”
– Jaron Lanier

“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.”
– Jean Arp

“V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”
– Jess C. Scott

“That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…”
– Jess C. Scott

“Last night I was seriously considering whether I was a bisexual or not but I don’t think so though I’m not sure if I’d like to be and argh I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, if you like a person, you like the person, not their genitals.”
– Jess C. Scott

“My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism.”
– Jess C. Scott

“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”
– Jess C. Scott

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