Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.-Arthur C. Clarke
People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.-Alan Kay
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.-Andrew Brown
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.-James Surowiecki
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.-Bill Gates
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.-Steve Ballmer
The internet is a great way to get on the net. – Bob Dole
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.-Mitch Kapor
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.-Bill Gates
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.-Clive James
Technology… is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.-Carrie Snow
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.-Elbert Hubbard
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.-Alfred North Whitehead
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.-Freeman Dyson
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.-Gertrude Stein
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.-Richard P. Feynman
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. – Aldous Huxley
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.-Jimmy Carter
What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.-Tim O’Reilly
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.-Stephen Hawking
We’re still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.-Scott Cook
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.-Tim Berners-Lee
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.-John Perry Barlow
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.-B. F. Skinner
The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.-Marshall McLuhan
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.-Demetri Martin
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want. – George-Lucas
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.-George Lucas
Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn’t help us know what to say.-Jonathan Sacks
Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.-Michael J. Saylor
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.-Dave Barry
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.-R. Buckminster Fuller
Microsoft isn’t evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.-Linus Torvalds
It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.-William Gibson
The Linux philosophy is ‘Laugh in the face of danger’. Oops. Wrong One. ‘Do it yourself’. Yes, that’s it.-Linus Torvalds
You affect the world by what you browse.-Tim Berners Lee
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.-Unknown
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it. – Max Frisch
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.-Georges Pompidou
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.-Omar N. Bradley
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.-Tim Berners-Lee
Cyberspace can’t compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.-Jonathan Sacks
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.-John Perry Barlow
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.-John Cusack
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.-John Perry Barlow
The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.-William Gibson
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.-Alvin Toffler
Men have become the tools of their tools. – Henry David Thoreau
Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.-Robin S. Sharma
Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.-Dave Barry
These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than ‘able-bodied’ folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.-Daniel H. Wilson
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.-Alan Perlis
It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.-Esther Dyson
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.-Daniel J. Boorstin
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.-Larry Wall
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.-Thomas Sowell
Technology has to be invented or adopted.-Jared Diamond
An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.-Elon Musk
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. – Larry Wall
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.-William Gibson
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.-Frank Lloyd Wright