“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Technology
Bill Gates on Computers
“I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.” Continue reading
Sir William Preece on the Telephone
“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.” Continue reading
Putt’s Law
“Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.” Continue reading
Arthur C. Clarke on Technology
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” Continue reading
Isaac Asimov on Computers
“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.” Continue reading
Albert Einstein on War
“The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.” Continue reading
Jim Clark on the Internet
“The Internet is not just one thing, it’s a collection of things – of numerous communications networks that all speak the same digital language.” Continue reading
Edsger Dijkstra on Computers
“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.” Continue reading
Hodding Carter on Television
“Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.” Continue reading
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