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Technology Quotes by Linus Torvalds
- The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce…
- Software is like sex: It's better when it's free.
- I started Linux because I wanted to see it on the desktop... I do hope that the desktop people would try to work together ...…
- The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.
- Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
- I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.
- I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'
- To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be…
- Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is…
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- 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
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- 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