Technology Quotes

"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."

"As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me."

"When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery."

"Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn."

"I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it."

"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."

"The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat."

"I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer."

"The computer is a moron."

"Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads."

"The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications."

"Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them."

"I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out."

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

"As Members of Congress we can now engage with our constituents via online innovations like the Huffington Post, while a small business in rural Oregon can use the Internet to find customers around the world."

"The Internet has changed the way we communicate with each other, the way we learn about the world and the way we conduct business."

"Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace."

"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."

"So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic."

"When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine."