Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

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"We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids"

Willie Aames, Actor

"In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam"

James Nasmyth, Inventor

"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Men have become the tools of their tools"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

J.B. Priestley

"In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

Linus Torvalds

"I don't try to be a threat to Microsoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

Linus Torvalds

"What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

Linus Torvalds

"I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors, Linux Red Hat"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

Linus Torvalds

"Mechanization best serves mediocrity"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"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

Stephen Covey

"The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"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

Steve Jobs

"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

Steve Jobs

"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

Steve Jobs

"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

Steve Jobs

"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

Steve Jobs

"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

Steve Jobs

"For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

Steve Jobs

"The medium is the message"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

Marshall McLuhan

"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

Marshall McLuhan

"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

Marshall McLuhan

"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

Marshall McLuhan

"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

Marshall McLuhan

"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

John Madden

"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

Bill Gates

"When the PC was launched, people knew it was important"

Bill Gates, Businessman

Bill Gates

"We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be"

Bill Gates, Businessman

Bill Gates

"People everywhere love Windows"

Bill Gates, Businessman

Bill Gates

"Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness"

Bill Gates, Businessman

Bill Gates

"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

Bill Gates

"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

Niels Bohr

"Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading manuals without the software"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

Arthur C. Clarke

"Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

Arthur C. Clarke

"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

Henrik Ibsen

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