Technology Quotations

Adam Smith

The robot is going to lose. Not by much....

Alan Kay

People who are really serious about software should make...

Alan Kay

Perspective is worth 80 IQ...

Alan Kay

The protean nature of the computer is such that...

Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has...

Aldous Huxley

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient...

Alfred North Whitehead

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations...

Al Boliska

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd...

Ambrose Bierce

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of...

Ambrose Bierce

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates...

Andrew Brown

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless...

Andy Grove

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on...

Andy Grove

Just as we could have rode into the sunset,...

Andy Grove

Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great...

Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from...

Bill Gates

The first rule of any technology used in a...

Carl Sagan

All of the books in the world contain no...

Carl Sagan

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements...

Clifford Stoll

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is...

Clifford Stoll

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten...

C. S. Lewis

The real problem is not why some pious, humble,...

Daniel J. Boorstin

Technology is so much fun but we can drown...

Dave Barry

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and...

Dave Barry

The Internet is the most important single development in...

Donald Trump

A friend called me up the other day and...

Edward R. Murrow

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the...

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary...

Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that...

The system of nature, of which man is a...

You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you...

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his...

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift...

Gene Spafford

Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with...

Georges Pompidou

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and...

Everybody gets so much information all day long that...

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better...

Men have become the tools of their...

If the conditions were right there could be great...

The most important and urgent appeal we have to...

Jaron Lanier

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff...

Jaron Lanier

Style used to be an interaction between the human...

Jean Arp

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has...

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is...

Jim Allchin

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop...

John Perry Barlow

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local...

John Perry Barlow

Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we...

John Perry Barlow

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is...

John Perry Barlow

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes...

John Perry Barlow

We will create a civilization of the Mind in...

John Perry Barlow

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or...

John Spencer

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without...

John Stuart Mill

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet...

Larry Wall

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like...

Larry Wall

Real programmers can write assembly code in any...

Linus Torvalds

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

Linus Torvalds

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of...

Mark Kennedy

The Internet is a great information tool, and can...

Mark Wahlberg

The world is very different today than it was...

Marshall McLuhan

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the...

Max Frisch

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world...

Meg Whitman

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations...

Mitchell Kapor

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a...

M. Russell Ballard

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically...

Omar N. Bradley

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom...

Orrin Hatch

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go...

Oscar Wilde

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no...

Peter Drucker

The best way to predict the future is to...

Ralph Nader

People are stunned to hear that one company has...

Richard P. Feynman

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over...

Robert Walpole

But I am sorry to say that of late...

Roger Zelazny

I don't have to write. There are plenty of...

R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all...

R. Buckminster Fuller

I just invent, then wait until man comes around...

Sam Ervin

I used to think that the Civil War was...

Scott McNealy

Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know...

Scott McNealy

The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows...

Stewart Alsop

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything...

Suzanne Somers

For years I have been going to the South...

Tim Berners-Lee

Sites need to be able to interact in one...

Tim Berners-Lee

You affect the world by what you...

Victor Hugo

Our acts make or mar us, we are the...

Wernher von Braun

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and...

William Gibson

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those...

William Gibson

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of...

William Gibson

Dreaming in public is an important part of our...

William Gibson

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at...

William Gibson

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's...

William Gibson

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on...

William Gibson

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly...

William Gibson

The sky above the port was the color of...

William Gibson

Time moves in one direction, memory in...

William Gibson

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to...