Famous Technology Quotes

"If you wanna cry ..use tissue paper not your fb status"

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"What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions"

Arnold H. Glasow, Businessman

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

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

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

Gertrude Stein, Author

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Arthur C. Clarke, Writer

"We are as much moving into a software age as we moved into an iron age"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

"We take our cultural machinery and are moving that into the Internet"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

"I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world"

Jimmy Carter, President

"I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

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

Dave Barry, Author

"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed"

Lawrence Clark Powell

"Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line"

Andy Grove, Businessman

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

Alan Perlis, Scientist

"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi"

Larry Wall, Author

"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, Writer

"The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate"

Alvin Toffler, Author

"There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians"

Georges Pompidou, Statesman

"What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"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, Playwright

"Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

"Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal"

Stewart Alsop, Writer

"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"

Al Boliska, Writer

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language"

Larry Wall, Author

"I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing"

Michael K. Powell, Politician

"Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen"

Larry Niven, Writer

"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday"

Dennis Gabor, Scientist

"Defect-free software does not exist"

Wietse Venema, Scientist

"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet"

Bruce Sterling, Writer

"The internet is a great way to get on the net"

Bob Dole, Politician

"People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware"

Alan Kay, Scientist

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation"

Jean Arp, Sculptor

"We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution"

Scott Cook, Businessman

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