“Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don’t add up.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Technology
Bill Gates on Technology
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” Continue reading
Stephen Hawking on Computers
“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.” Continue reading
Thomas A. Edison on Failure
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Continue reading
Esther Dyson on Internet
“The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.” Continue reading
Gertrude Stein on Information
“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” Continue reading
Albert Einstein on Computers
“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.” Continue reading
R. Buckminster Fuller on Technology
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.” Continue reading
John C. Dvorak on Computers and Business
“In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.” Continue reading
Clive James on Technology
“It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.” Continue reading