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"You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... There's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize"
Gary Coleman, Actor
"My invention (the motion picture camera) can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever"
Auguste Lumiere, Director
"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen"
Larry Niven, Writer
"Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms"
William Powell, Actor
"Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be"
John Phillips, Musician
"A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures"
Ben Shneiderman, Scientist
"Innovation is creativity with a job to do"
John Emmerling, Businessman
"Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers'"
Peter Drucker, Businessman
"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be"
George Orwell, Author
"The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"We shape our tools, and afterwards our tools shape us"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"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"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do"
Robert A. Heinlein, Writer
"When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen"
Bill Gates, Businessman
"640K ought to be enough for anybody"
Bill Gates, Businessman
"I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in"
Bill Gates, Businessman
"DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience"
Bill Gates, Businessman
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons"
R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor
"Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved"
Walt Disney, Cartoonist
"The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized"
Marilyn vos Savant, Author
"But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it, of course, with a digital thing, but remember, in 1982, you couldn't"
David Hockney, Artist
"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster"
Simon Wiesenthal, Activist
"It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter"
Robert Redford, Actor
"When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb"
J. Robert Oppenheimer, Physicist
"Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today"
Arthur Erickson, Architect
"Now there is so much expertise and brainpower; it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky"
Darren Aronofsky, Director
"Hardware works best when it matters the least"
Norman Ralph Augustine, Author
"No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat"
Thomas Friedman, Journalist
"A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention"
Dean Kamen, Inventor
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