Technology Quotes – famous quotes about technology

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. -Meg Whitman

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. -Max Frisch

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. -John Perry Barlow

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. -John Perry Barlow

I have an almost religious zeal… not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. -Dan Millman

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It’s time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. -Niklas Zennstrom

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it. -Alan Perlis

I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that’s great. -Larry Wall

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. -Tim Berners-Lee

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. -Tim Berners-Lee

Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. -Carrie P. Snow

science and technology quotes- I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it’s too expensive to change the interface. -Jaron Lanier

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone. -Jaron Lanier

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online. -Esther Dyson

It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. -William Gibson

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. -Andy Grove

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. -Carl Sagan

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG. -Bill Gates

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. -Bill Gates

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man. -Maya Angelou

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces. -Carl Sagan

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them. -Steve Jobs

The only thing that I’d rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it. -Scott McNealy

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday. -Dennis Gabor

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. -John Spencer

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing. -Michael K. Powell

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -Andrew Brown

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. -Clive James

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. -Stewart Alsop