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"Pointing is a metaphor we all know. We've done a lot of studies and tests on that, and it's much faster to do all kinds of functions, such as cutting and pasting, with a mouse, so it's not only easier to use but more efficient"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"First was the mouse. The second was the click wheel. And now, we're going to bring multi-touch to the market. And each of these revolutionary interfaces has made possible a revolutionary product - the Mac, the iPod and now the iPhone"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"And one more thing"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have!"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through"
Steve Jobs, Businessman
"One of the effects of living with electric information is that we live habitually in a state of information overload. There's always more than you can cope with"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field"
Stephen Covey, Businessman
"Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game"
John Madden, Coach
"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes"
Bill Gates, Businessman
"When the PC was launched, people knew it was important"
Bill Gates, Businessman
"We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be"
Bill Gates, Businessman
"People everywhere love Windows"
Bill Gates, Businessman
"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness"
Bill Gates, Businessman
"Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles"
Bill Gates, Businessman
"Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary: The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true"
Niels Bohr, Physicist
"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software"
Arthur C. Clarke, Writer
"Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society"
Arthur C. Clarke, Writer
"New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!"
Arthur C. Clarke, Writer
"I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!"
Henrik Ibsen, Poet
"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants, and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants"
George W. Bush, President
"The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved by animal or steam power"
Charles Babbage, Mathematician
"Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer"
E. F. Schumacher, Economist
"When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last"
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor
"Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true, and the tendency to miss lunch"
Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor
"Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy"
Pope Paul VI, Clergyman
"E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it"
Tom Hanks, Actor
"People think innovation is just having a good idea, but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things"
Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman
"People developed planes first and then took care of flight safety. If people were focused on safety first, no one would ever have built a plane"
Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman
"I just think that VR and AR are going to be a really big deal"
Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman
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