841 private quotes tagged technology

“In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.” — Alan Perlis

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

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“The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.” — William Gibson

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“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.” — Max Frisch

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“Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.” — Carrie P. Snow

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“I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.” — Bernard Ebbers

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“The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.” — Niklas Zennstrom

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

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“We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.” — John Perry Barlow

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“Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.” — John Perry Barlow

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“What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.” — Tim O'Reilly

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“The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.” — Linus Torvalds

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“It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.” — William Gibson

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“Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.” — Mitchell Kapor

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“Technology is not good, it's neutral.” — Tom Shadyac

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“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

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“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.” — William Gibson

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“Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.” — Andy Rooney

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“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.” — Theodor Adorno

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“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” — B. F. Skinner

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“I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.” — Ludacris

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“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Technology is not neutral.” — Godfrey Reggio

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“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.” — J. G. Ballard

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