I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
— Hallowe'en Party
Quotes About Technology
Arthur C. Clarke wrote that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Douglas Adams complained that we are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. Agatha Christie added that a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
Steve Jobs insisted that his confidence was not a faith in technology but faith in people. Henri Poincaré warned that an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house. Sigmund Freud noted the influence that progressive control over natural forces exerts on the social relationships between men. Shimon Peres described Israel, a land lacking natural resources, learning to treat its minds as its greatest national advantage. Alexander Pope captured how each generation judges the last: we think our fathers fools, so wise we grow, and our wiser sons will no doubt think us so.
Steve Jobs insisted that his confidence was not a faith in technology but faith in people. Henri Poincaré warned that an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of bricks is a house. Sigmund Freud noted the influence that progressive control over natural forces exerts on the social relationships between men. Shimon Peres described Israel, a land lacking natural resources, learning to treat its minds as its greatest national advantage. Alexander Pope captured how each generation judges the last: we think our fathers fools, so wise we grow, and our wiser sons will no doubt think us so.
The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
— The Republic
— Foundation's Edge
Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors.
— Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
— Science and Humanism, Physics In Our Time
— New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
He had read Shakespeare and found him weak in chemistry.
I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.
— The Road to Wigan Pier
You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
The strength of self-reliance and self-development is that of science and technology, and the shortcut to implementing the five-year strategy is to give importance and precedence to science and technology.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.