Time Quote by Abe Vigoda

I live in quite a smart home. I built it from scratch, so I thought of everything... a lot of my doors are automatic;…

— Rylan Clark-Neal

Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy…

— David Petraeus

“Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare ‘automeals,’ heating water and converting it to…

— Isaac Asimov

Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric…

— Charles C. Mann

“At the other extreme, and far less threatening, will be the "house computer" of 2081. It will store all the information from all the…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

It will allow us to control all the communication needs of a household with one device.

— John C. Malone

In the smart home of the future, there should be a robot designed to talk to you. With enough display technology, connectivity, and voice…

— Colin Angle

Virtually any appliance is going to be online. Appliances will talk to each other and to the power-generation system. Our appliances will pay attention…

— Vint Cerf

Even seemingly innocuous housecleaning robots create maps of your home. That is information you want to make sure you control.

— Oren Etzioni

We have to find the environments in which it will be possible to live with our new inventions.

— Marshall McLuhan

At my house, I can operate pretty much everything from my phone. I can be anywhere in the world and adjust the temperature, check…

— Drew Scott

I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

— Anonymous