Technology

To master a new technology, you have to play with it.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams.

Innovative digital technology is transforming farms and agriculture production across the country, allowing farmers to do more with less.

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.

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.

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

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

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

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

The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.

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

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

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

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.