Quotes & anectdotes from
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the foolish,
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technology

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.