Technology Quotes

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The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the… — Clay Shirky
What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units -… — Clay Shirky
If old consumers were assumed to be passive, then new consumers are active. If old consumers were predictable and stayed where you told them, then… — Henry Jenkins
Although we've used the concept brand communities a couple of times, it's important to reiterate that communities aren't created, they are courted. Most brands will… — Henry Jenkins
Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to… — Henry Jenkins
The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do. — Henry Jenkins
A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The… — Donald Trump
A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times… — Bill Gates
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide. — Max Lerner
Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen… — Al Gore
Any fool can use a computer. Many do. — Ted Nelson
Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened… — Dave Barry
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is. — Larry Wall
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter. — Eric S. Raymond
Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or… — C. Wright Mills
Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean… — Dave Barry
Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline. — William J. Clinton
Customers are still setting the technology agenda. Not just you, our customers, but your customers as well. What more and more are telling you is… — Carly Fiorina
Database: the information you lose when your memory crashes. — Dave Barry
Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers… — Tim O'Reilly

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