Technology Quotes · Page 116

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

— John Maeda

Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.

— Larry Wall

I'm still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn't have this feeling with the RED one.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I think when I first sold digital comics it was sort of on a whim.

— Charles Forsman

We live in this world where loosing our phones are more dramatic than loosing our virginity.

— Megan Fox

We think computing ought to be like a telephone or a water tap or a light switch.

— Scott McNealy

Cellular was the forerunner to true wireless communications.

— Martin Cooper

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

— Eric Schmidt

Machine intelligence of a human nature could be a century away, and immortality is at least a millennium away, if not unattainable…

— Michael Shermer

What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in…

— Jacques Ellul

“There were two main sources of technical knowledge and innovation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the hobbyist and the English…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The digital board’s IT inquiries help to clarify the strategic role of IT in maximizing business potential.”

— Pearl Zhu

“To overcome the business vulnerability to changes, new competitors or a new breed of customer behaviors, digital organizations today should have a…

— Pearl Zhu

“AI will begin as Artificial Idiocy . Who cares if a computer can play chess or take control of cyberspace? Can it…

— Hal Duncan

The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster.…

— Eckhart Tolle

The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless

— Bram Cohen

We are at a moment that some of the Silicon Valley companies are feeling the pressure. These days the founder of Twitter…

— Ramesh Srinivasan

You can't just stop technological progress. Even if one country stops researching artificial intelligence, some other countries will continue to do it.…

— Matt Haig

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking…

— Jimmy Carter

I do think digital media encourages speed-reading, which can be fine if one is simply seeking information. But a serious novel or…

— Michael Dirda

The deep paradox uncovered by AI research: the only way to deal efficiently with very complex problems is to move away from…

— Daniel Crevier

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline…

— Anonymous

Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy…

— Jeff Bezos

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against…

— David Gelernter

“perform a global substitution.” Because the search pattern is called a regular”

— Avinash DJ

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

— Bill Gates

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either

— Bjarne Stroustrup

But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.

— David Harvey

Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.

— John Lasseter

With digital sound just becomes simply information, not the sum of its parts.

— Andrew Bird

As technology progresses, I believe that fintech will fundamentally change finance.

— Taavet Hinrikus

A lot of the parallel processing software we're currently developing for supercomputers is tantric.

— Frederick Lenz

A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street.

— Doug Linder

“Exchange is to technology as sex is to evolution. It stimulates novelty”

— Matt Ridley (Author

It's going to be fun watching this robot start malfunctioning.

— David Haye

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

— Marcia Gay Harden

Don't just play with your phone: go out and produce something.

— Merlin Mann

Taiwan's development in the past 20 years in high tech is almost 100 percent related to Silicon Valley.

— Stan Shih

Almost everyone has a mobile telephone nowadays. Few people listen.

— Robert D Dangoor

The name iRobot comes from 'Internet-connected robot.'

— Colin Angle