Quotes about Technology
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
by Carl Sagan (Scientist, American , born in 1934) keywords: arranged, civilization, crucial, depend, elements, most, profoundly, science, technology , which The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (Novelist, French , born in 1900) keywords: deeply, does, great, him, into, isolate, machine, man, more, nature, problems , them The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
by Thomas Sowell (Economist, American , born in 1930) keywords: complexity, does, growing, imply, intellectual, lives, march, means, most, often, opposite, science , technology The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
by John Spencer (Actor, American , born in 1946) keywords: allows, cutting, edge, experimentation, future, manipulation, modeling, rat, real, research, technology, without , world Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
by Gertrude Stein (Author, American , born in 1874) keywords: common, day, everybody, gets, information, long, lose, much, sense , their I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
by Bruce Sterling (Writer, American , born in 1954) keywords: already, aware, away, cyberspace, fifty, here, just, only, ten, think, thought, used, years , yet Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
by Larry Wall (Author, Canadian , born in 1949) keywords: array, club, death, doing, linear, loaded, over, scans, someone, trying , uzi Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
by Alfred North Whitehead (Mathematician, English , born in 1861) keywords: advances, civilization, extending, important, number, operations, perform, them, thinking, which , without What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
by Meg Whitman (Businessman, American , born in 1956) keywords: disaster, fundamentals, good, interesting, net, public, really, relations, some, sort, ways , whole The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
by Oscar Wilde (Dramatist, Irish , born in 1970) keywords: annoying, expression, machine, more, near, piano, played, relation, sister , than