Technology
Edsger Dijkstra on Computers
“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
Thomas A. Edison on Failure
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Tim Berners-Lee on Computers
“Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.“
Carl Sagan on Intelligence
“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
Rita Mae Brown on Computer Dating
“Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer.”
Albert Einstein on Solving Problems
“The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.”
Andy Rooney on Computers
“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.”
R. Buckminster Fuller on Technology
“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.”
Isaac Asimov on Computers
“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”
James Magary on Computers
“Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don’t add up.”
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.”
William Gibson on Futurism
“The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.”
Albert Einstein on Computers
“Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination.”
Arthur C. Clarke on Technology
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.”
Arthur C. Clarke on Technology
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
De La Lastra’s Law
“After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.”
Clive James on Technology
“It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.”
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.”
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.”
John F. Kennedy on Power
“The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.”
Albert Einstein on Technology & Humanity
“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
Robert X. Cringely on Technology
“If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.”
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.”
Henry David Thoreau on Flying
“Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!”
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.”