Technology Quotes · Page 139

“People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think”

— Neil Postman

Just about every computer on the market today runs Unix, except the Mac and nobody cares about it.

— Bill Joy

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

— Robert Rodriguez

It's rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology.

— Hilary Mason

“The Stream interface has AutoCloseable as a superinterface.”

— Cay S. Horstmann

Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

— Macklemore

The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.

— Abraham Verghese

Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

— Donald Knuth

“The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the…

— Masaru Ibuka

And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously. We have a lot of royalties coming to…

— Darl McBride

Just as there's some technologies that jeopardize revenue for traditional products, there are also technologies that can significantly lower costs.

— Norman Pearlstine

Clearly, programming courses should teach methods of design and construction, and the selected examples should be such that a gradual development can…

— Niklaus Wirth

Science, innovations and other means in which we desperately attempt to predict and control our existence are merely illusions to conceal our…

— Tia Nnebo

Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi…

— Yochai Benkler

“He was incredibly phony, a complete poseur... He pretended to be interested in technology, but he wasn't. He was a marketing guy,…

— Walter Isaacson

For the time being, technologies are colonizing our body through implants. We started with human implants, but research leads us to microtechnological…

— Paul Virilio

A lot of people talk about sometime around 2030, machines will be more powerful than the human brain, in terms of the…

— Stuart J. Russell

I think what people love about the Steve Jobs story is not just the track record at Apple, but that comeback story,…

— Steve Case

At Square, we got our tech up and running in three weeks, but it took us 18 months to get licenses, banking…

— Jim McKelvey

“When we decide for ourselves how we want to conduct our lives on the basis of what is actually important to us,…

— Nancy Colier

If a superior alien civilization sent us a message saying, 'We'll arrive in a few decades', would we just reply, 'OK, call…

— Stephen Hawking

I realised I had an issue with my mobile phone use when a friend started explaining the virtues of the Fast 800…

— Romesh Ranganathan

The speed with which WikiLeaks went from niche interest to global prominence was a real-time example of the revolutionizing power of the…

— Heather Brooke

The very technologies that were supposed to free up our time seem instead to be consuming it, tacking hours onto our already…

— Sally Helgesen

Westerns give people a chance to see wide-open spaces and life before technology took over.

— Bill Pullman

Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic

— Bernard Wolfe Limbo

Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

— Marshall McLuhan

“Algorithms can’t account for the introduction of new qualitative variables, such as hardheaded CEOs,”

— Amy Webb

“To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.”

— Ray Bradbury

Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.

— Chuck Green

“...maintaining good regression tests is the key to refactoring with confidence.”

— Andrew Hunt

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

— Niklaus Wirth

I don't think objectively we are in a tech bubble when tech stocks are at a 30 year low.

— Marc Andreessen

Technology has changed the way we think about music.

— Hamsalekha

I always say, 'Be near science and technology, and you will never fail.'

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

“Technology makes people equal, it gives them a fair advantage.”

— Samer Chidiac

We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.

— Laura Esquivel

Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.

— Jack Ma

So actually I only got a mobile phone the day after I left being Prime Minister.

— Tony Blair

I remind myself that Im always more satisfied by human interaction than by a digital connection.

— Maulik Pancholy