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Technology Quotes by Alan Kay
- Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.
- The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was…
- Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what.
- People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
- The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
- Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but…
More Technology Quotes
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
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- The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are… — Isaac Asimov
- Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. — Margaret Atwood
- People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make. — Margaret Atwood
- Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think… — Margaret Atwood
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable. — Diane Ackerman
- I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry… — Diane Ackerman