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...

This is supposed to be breakthrough technology.

Information wants to be free.’ So goes the saying. Stewart Brand, the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, seems to have said it first.I say that information doesn’t deserve to be free.Cybernetic totalists love to...

This advance is the basis for a technology that could build a large range of devices inside an optical fiber. If the signal never leaves the fiber, then it is faster, cheaper and more efficient.

Because so many people use goodreads, it is an amazingly good—and amazingly underutilized—resource for understanding what people read, why, and how they feel about their reading experiences.

We have been optimizing this technology for seven years. And since we use the same code for our mobile browsers as for our well-tested desktop browser, we have a very significant head start over the...

The app saved three minutes of my time. But in the process, it cut a neighborhood business out of the economic equation. And, in a way, I had cut off myself from the inconvenient, maddening,...

We refuse to turn off our computers, turn off our phone, log off Facebook, and just sit in silence, because in those moments we might actually have to face up to who we really are.

It isn’t uncommon this time of year for prices of technology stocks to contract when catalysts are insufficient.

Best not to take, yet doubt its strength,A leash with Demons at its length.

In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods–the long-distance phone call, the telegram–were marked “For Emergency Use Only.” So my parents...

Of course, in television’s presentation of the “news of the day,” we may see the Now…this” mode of discourse in it’s boldest and most embarrassing form. For there, we are presented not only with fragmented...

A phone call should be a convenience to the caller, not an inconvenience to the called.

When we think about the future, we hope for a future of progress. That progress can take one of two forms. Horizontal or extensive progress means copying things that work—going from 1 to n. Horizontal...

Ancient miracles are technological wonders.

There’s a lot of technology out now.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Basically, it stores deleted files in a hidden directory. It’s old technology designed for a different era, like Windows 95 and 98.

I’m sure that they’ll be able to realize how wrong it all is… even though the idiots outnumber most people these days, there are still enough intelligent people to fight against it.

All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,’ he said. ‘We can’t turn off our internet; we can’t turn off our smartphones; we can’t turn off our computers. You used to ask a...

The woman was simply leaving us alone with our future, the future she wouldn’t be a part of. She didn’t know how to do it or what it was, but she was trying to give...

We’ve shipped a new version of Windows, we’ve paid an historic fine, and we’ve provided unprecedented access to Microsoft technology to promote interoperability with other industry players. In total, we have now responded to more...

This is pilot program. We’re looking to see how the technology works best and in which scenarios, and how quickly we can process passengers.

The market is going to remain on the defensive and start to look at this developing technology story. To technology, that story is very important. It filters throughout the whole chain of PC sales to...

Memory has always been social. Now we’re using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.

Ah, well! then the young woman was only in advance of the age,” said Miss Archer; “and what with that and the telephone, and that dreadful phonograph that bottles up all one says and disgorges...

Technology shares here got a lift from strong gains in the Nasdaq index as many investors here regard this sector as having lagged last year.

We have too much technological progress, life is too hectic, and our society has only one goal: to invent still more technological marvels to make life even easier and better. The craving for every new...

Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you’re really having a deep relationship with it.

Using Facebook is like taking a Dyson to your spare time.

…intelligence nowadays is all about application: it is the ability ‘to take in a complex system and learn its rules on the fly’. For young people, this ability is second nature. Any fool knows that,...

It’s really difficult to buy technology shares without any real signs of a turnaround in prices, which everyone has been expecting for some time now.

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.