Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.

You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

If it hurts, do it more frequently, and bring the pain forward.

That one American farmer can now feed himself and fifty-six other people may be, within the narrow view of the specialist, a triumph of technology; by no stretch of reason can it be considered a...

We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.

The World’s Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and obedient. They thought of it as a giant slave, an untiring steel Negro, controlled by Reason in a world...

E-mail has some magical ability to turn off the politeness gene in a human being.

[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and even necessary, that we should go on and on from...

Truly, more than removing the partition between vectors and values, we would have needed to talk about strengthening crisscrossed lacings: an intertwined kind of understanding that would de-ideologize ‘ideologies,’ desanctify sanctities, but also mentalize the...

He had a notebook. He took notes in it. It was always useful. And them Sybil, gods bless her, had brought him this fifteen-function imp which did so many other things, although as far as...

Never in mankind’s history have we so fundamentally changed our means of existence with so little thought.

It wasn’t science and technology that cause a slow progress, but collective knowledge of the society and market demands.

Technology is the idol of our age. The Bible describes the evils of worshipping things built by the hand of man. Back then, it was a simple statue, today it is far more insidious. And...

Here we introduce the nation’s first great communications monopolist, whose reign provides history’s first lesson in the power and peril of concentrated control over the flow of information. Western Union’s man was one Rutherford B....

Amazin’.’ he said again. ‘He just looks as though he’s thinking, right?”Er…yes.”But he’s not actually thinking?”Er…no.”So…he just gives the impression of thinking but really it’s just a show?”Er…yes.’Just like everyone else, then really,’ said Ridcully

Apple is more about innovative branding than technology. It is fast, fresh and fleshy and will not stale so easily.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Every pedagogical situation can be thought of as a kind of triangle among three parties: the student, the teacher, and the world that student and teacher investigate together.

That’s what children eventually were for their aging parents: custodians of technology, free personal IT departments keeping them from disappearing forever from the universal cloud.

Don’t fight the impulses of electricity. It’s proper Netiquette to go with the technology flow.

Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this planet not ever….It will be far cheaper, and entail no risk to human...

Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to...

Modern invention has been a great leveler. A machine may operate far more quickly than a political or economic measure to abolish privilege and wipe out the distinctions of class or finance.

Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.

The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance...

Demand for optical technology is insatiable. As long as demand continues then think this deal would do well. I don’t see demand to let up.

I have only touched one other computer at my friend Marissa’s house, and found the experience disconcerting. There was something sinister about the green letters and numbers that flashed on the screen as the computer...

Until you get to know them in person, anyone you correspond with online remains a stranger.

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same...

Gee, I’d like to go visit Fred, but I can’t because there isn’t a flat thing outside for me to drive on, and I don’t know how to build it and the other 300 million...

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not...

Some upstarts always try to get closer to the source of creation by ascending to the source’s level. The story of Icarus is of course a parable about the folly of such an effort. Get...

One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in...

Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we do not experience it.

I believe that two sectors that will lead the market are technology and the financial services for two slightly different reasons — interest rates, and the other reason just being the drivers for productivity and...

Hertzfeld recalled that Gates just sat there coolly, looking at Steve in the eye, before hurling back, in his squeaky voice, what became a classic zinger. “Well, Steve, I think there’s more than one way...

Technology stocks don’t tend to do well in the summer. We could see that pattern repeat itself and technology could take the summer off and continue to drift down.

Technological innovations that produced certain major components of the United States military cannot be understood as resulting from a qualitative arms race. Those involved in decisions about new military technologies for the U.S. Army and...

I’m interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you’re like, ‘Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?’

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won’t...

We simply thought that the technology was not ready and was in need of additional work toward better and more complete integration with the document object model and with HTML.

It’s the same story. Technology is hot, and everything else is not.

The less you use your brain, the less it will be there for use when you need it.

The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.

I can’t blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I’ve spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I’ll do it after...

Technology is crucial to civilization why? Because it helps us make our fate. We don’t need God or miracles or the flight of the bumble bee. But it is also crouched and undecidable. It can...