Technology Quotes

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

"In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully."

"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology."

"The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite."

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

"This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet our Macintosh computer takes less power than a 100-watt bulb to run it and it can save you hours a day. What will it be able to do ten or 20 years from now, or 50 years from now?"

"I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive."

"The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously."

"You can't really imagine music without technology."

"Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night."

"I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too."

"With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution."

"All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men."

"Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

"There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics."

"Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody."

"I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software."

"The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes."

"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it."

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."