Technology Quotes

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.

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

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

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

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

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

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.