c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
The information superhighways will have the same effect as our present superhighways or motorways. They will cancel out the landscape, lay waste to the territory and abolish real distances. What is merely physical and geographical in the case of our motorways will assume its full dimensions in the electronic field with the abolition of mental distances and the absolute shrinkage of time. All short circuits (and the establishment of this planetary hyper-space is tantamount to one immense short circuit) produce electric shocks. What we see emerging here is no longer merely territorial desert, but social desert, employment desert, the body itself being laid waste by the very concentration of information. A kind of Big Crunch, contemporaneous with the Big Bang of the financial markets and the information networks. We are merely at the dawning of the process, but the waste and the wastelands are already growing much faster than the computerization process itself.
— Jean Baudrillard, Screened Out
Yes, you are a battery.
— Benjamin H. Bratton, The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty
Technology does not drive change. It is our collective response to the options and opportunities presented by technology that drives change.
— Morgan Housel
To gain control over a large number of people you do not have to place them in containers with suction caps attached to their bodies like in the film “The Matrix”. It is enough to create an all-encompassing information network because then people will automatically take their places in its cells.
— Vadim Zeland, Reality transurfing. Steps I-V
I believe, given enough time, all of engineering will move to paradigms based on the biological cell.
— Brian Bennudriti
As every barrier to the constraint of individualism is removed - as 'I' and 'my' appear in the names of more and more software applications and IT products - nevertheless today's rampant mimeticism ensures that 'I' and 'my' become less and less differentiated from 'you' and 'yours'...We crave differentiation, and deprived of it we blame the failing institutions that once might have delivered it.
— Scott Cowdell, René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis
Your fancy alien train is broken?""My fancy alien material transfer system has been sitting unused for over a billion years and half the planet just exploded. Your ship was built less than a decade ago and you can barely keep the coffee pot running.”“You are a sad, bitter little man.
— James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn
The point is, the "best" technology or idea doesn't always prevail. Sometimes chance and the law of unintended consequences win out.
— Eric Weiner, The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley
High tech needs to be complemented by high touch.
— Richard N. Bolles, What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
In the imposition of a unitary and homogeneous popular culture, disseminated now throughout the world by the spread of Western technology and communications, is to be found one of the central features of modernity's distinctive way of achieving the priority of the one over the many. Homogeneity derives from the creation of an undifferentiated social or other reality...It is not therefore the priority of the many that distinguishes modernity from other cultures, but the shape the priority of the one takes in practice. Thus both the ancient and modern eras, in so far as they can be distinguished in the way often attempted, share in a tendency to elevate the one over the many: to enslave the many to the heteronomous rule of the one. The pathos of the modern condition is that, after rejecting what it rightly sees to be the oppressive forms of unity deriving from the past, it has itself succumbed to various false universals that replicate or even exacerbate the bondage from which it had hoped to free itself.
— Colin E. Gunton, The One, the Three and the Many: God, Creation, and the Culture of Modernity
Could we can have developer acceptance criteria?
— ahkeno
Inventions are smarter than their inventors
— Larrie D. Ferreiro
In the kitchen, I turn on a TV set that has hundreds of channels devoted to every conceivable subject including celebrity bunion removal (This week: David Hasselhoff). I tune in to one of the literally dozens of news shows, all of which feature a format of 55 percent celebrities promoting things, 30 percent emails from viewers, and 15 percent YouTube videos showing bears jumping on trampolines. While I'm catching up on these developments, I turn on the programmable coffeemaker, which I hope that someday, perhaps by attending community college, I will learn to program.
— Dave Barry, I'll Mature When I'm Dead: Dave Barry's Amazing Tales of Adulthood
we are writing our own ‪#‎karma‬! I mean my test cases
— ahkeno
That's the thing about technology, the closer you think it brings you, the further it pulls you apart.
— Durjoy Datta, When Only Love Remains
Science and technology are the engines of prosperity. Of course, one is free to ignore science and technology, but only at your peril. The world does not stand still because you are reading a religious text. If you do not master the latest in science and technology, then your competitors will.
— Michio Kaku
By shaping the menus we pick from, technology hijacks the way we perceive our choices and replaces them with new ones. But the closer we pay attention to the options we’re given, the more we’ll notice when they don’t actually align with our true needs.
— Tristan Harris
Does the fact that I can no longer remember my own phone number indicate my growing feebleness? No, on the contrary, it unleashes the mind from the petty tyranny of tending to the trivial and allows it to concentrate on the important and the critical.
— Don Norman
You can tell if a person is organized by checking his desktop.
— Ali AlJa'bari
At root, I think that any given technology (think nuclear power, gunpowder, the written word...) has the potential to improve our lives, wound it, and also to create unexpected accidents. It's not the technology that's the problem, it's us, the users. However angelic or demonic, or thoughtful or thoughtless we happen to be is then amplified by our technologies.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
As a CEO, how do you know you are investing in technology that supports productivity?
— Shawn Casemore, Operational Empowerment: Collaborate, Innovate, and Engage to Beat the Competition
Wow. Whoops. Sorry. ... I just lost two hours inside a YouTube kitten warp.
— Douglas Coupland, The Age of Earthquakes: A Guide to the Extreme Present
Does writing exist for the typewriter, or the typewriter for writing? . . . the invention of the computer would one day make [the] argument obsolete . . . technologies exist for humans, and not vice versa.
— Minae Mizumura, The Fall of Language in the Age of English
When we asked college students how they adapted to the tidal wave of new technology, one explained, "It's only technology if it happened after you were born.
— Arthur Levine, Generation on a Tightrope: A Portrait of Today's College Student
The methods that will most effectively minimize the ability of intruders to compromise information security are comprehensive user training and education. Enacting policies and procedures simply won't suffice. Even with oversight the policies and procedures may not be effective: my access to Motorola, Nokia, ATT, Sun depended upon the willingness of people to bypass policies and procedures that were in place for years before I compromised them successfully
— Kevin Mitnick
If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked
— Richard Clarke
Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it
— Herman Cain
We need a cybersecurity renaissance in this Country that promotes cyber hygiene and a security centric corporate culture applied and continuously reinforced by peer pressure
— James         Scott
Computer security can simply be protecting your equipment and files from disgruntled employees, spies, and anything that goes bump in the night, but there is much more. Computer security helps ensure that your computers, networks, and peripherals work as expected all the time, and that your data is safe in the event of hard disk crash or a power failure resulting from an electrical storm. Computer security also makes sure no damage is done to your data and that no one is able to read it unless you want them to
— Bruce Schneier
As we've come to realize, the idea that security starts and ends with the purchase of a prepackaged firewall is simply misguided
— Art Wittmann
Employees make decisions every day that negatively affects their business’s security…As a result, we have known for a while that, to protect organizations, employees need online street smarts. However, the problem is that some in the industry treat employee awareness as a training concern or one-time activity. It is not. It is an ongoing cultural problem.
— Wolfgang Goerlich
Employees can now easily leak company data through the use of insecure public Wi-Fi . If employees do not use VPNs to encrypt their data, they run the risk of exposing their traffic to cybercriminals. This means that passwords and usernames can be seen and intercepted by others on the network….. Although public WiFi hotspots are an invaluable services, there is a strong need for businesses to stay on top of the potential threats and security risks.
— Tom Gaffney
Creating back doors to hack in to secure devices will not only undermine consumer confidence in technology but most importantly empower cyber criminals and totalitarian regimes.
— Arzak Khan
If security were all that mattered, computers would never be turned on, let alone hooked into a network with literally millions of potential intruders
— Dan Farmer
We didn't install the [Code Red] patch on those DMZ systems because they were only used for development and testing. — Anonymous client, shortly after spending 48 continuous hours removing 2001's Code Red worm from internal corporate servers
— Mark G. Graff
Ransomware is more about manipulating vulnerabilities in human psychology than the adversary's technological sophistication
— James         Scott
There’s no silver bullet solution with cyber security, a layered defense is the only viable defense
— James Scott
Ransomware is unique among cybercrime because in order for the attack to be successful, it requires the victim to become a willing accomplice after the fact
— James Scott, Sr. Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
Hackers find more success with organizations where employees are under appreciated, over worked and under paid. Why would anyone in an organization like that care enough to think twice before clicking on a phishing email?
— James         Scott
As our country increasingly relies on electronic information storage and communication, it is imperative that our Government amend our information security laws accordingly
— Jo Ann Davis
Then, too, I am constantly confronted by students, some of whom have already rejected all ways but the scientific to come to know the world, and who seek only a deeper, more dogmatic indoctrination in that faith (although the world is no longer in their vocabulary). Other students suspect that not even the entire collection of machines and instruments at MIT can significantly give meaning to their lives. They sense the presence of a dilemma in an education polarized around science and technology, an education that implicitly claims to open a privileges access-path to fact, but that cannot tell them how to decide what to count as fact. Even while they recognize the genuine importance of learning their craft, they rebel at working on projects that appear to address themselves neither to answering interesting questions of fact nor to solving problems in theory.
— Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation
Somewhere I read, if Apple is an school then Samsung is the brilliant student. In Indian market I can say that Micromax is the smartest student
— Anoop Raghav
When I work with experimental gadgets, like new variations on virtual reality, in a lab environment, I am always reminded of how small changes in the details of a digital design can have profound unforeseen effects on the experiences of the humans who are playing with it. The slightest change in something as seemingly trivial as the use of a button can sometimes completely alter behavior patterns.For instance, Stanford University researcher Jeremy Bailenson has demonstrated that changing the height of one's avatar in immersive virtual reality transforms self-esteem and social self-perception. Technologies are extensions of ourselves, and, like the avatars in Jeremy's lab, our identities can be shifted by the quirks of gadgets. It is impossible to work with information technology without also engaging in social engineering.
— Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
The idea economy is a conversation. Try to channel or control that conversation and you will stop the chatter.
— A.E. Samaan
Looking ahead to future applications of electronics, [de Forest] grew even gloomier. He believed that 'electron physiologists' would eventually be able to monitor and analyze 'thought or brain waves', allowing 'joy and grief to be measured in define, quantitative unit.' Ultimately, he concluded, 'a professor may be able to implant knowledge into the reluctant brains of his 22nd century pupils. What terrifying political possibilities may be lurking there! Let us be thankful that such things are only for posterity, not for us.
— Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Science has the capacity to uplift us to heights of undreamed of sophistication and quality of life or to drag us down into an abyss, from which we may never return. I do not believe science and/or technology are bad. However, I am very concerned with the beliefs the majority of scientists have about the world, which is its overriding view of reality— the mainstream scientific worldview. I believe it is the greatest weakness of science and so the greatest weakness of modern society and poses a serious risk, as we accelerate toward the biggest upheaval in human history, within the context of the enormity of global issues we face.
— Jonathan R. Banks, A New World: The Science of Higher Dimensional Computation and Metaphysics
Brain-like in function and speed, the internet connected over one-third of the global population. Three million searches every minute; one-hundred-trillion emails every year; more Facebook users than people in North America, all with with personal photos, videos, apps, and chats. There were dozens of dating sites, an immersive universe called 2nd Life that boasted a country-sized GDP, a slew of viruses, obnoxious advertising, more than a billion photos of naked women, and seventy-two hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute. This was the environment where the friendship flourished.
— Jake Vander-Ark, The Day I Wore Purple
Science and technology were the only keys to opening the door to the future, and people approached science with the faith and sincerity of elementary school students.
— Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem
The explosive development of technology was analogous to the grown of cancer cells, and the results would be identical: the exhaustion of all sources of nourishment, the destruction of organs, and the final death of the host body. He advocated abolishing crude technologies such as fossil fuels and nuclear energy and keeping gentler technologies such as solar power and small-scale hydroelectric power.
— Liu Cixin, The Three-Body Problem
All earth's candles cannot make daylight if the Sun of Righteousness be eclipsed. He is the soul of our soul, the light of our light, the life of our life.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version
John Hay calls the telegraph reporter, "the natural enemy of the scribe.
— Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
The “self-actualization” philosophy from which most of this new bureaucratic language emerged insists that we live in a timeless present, that history means nothing, that we simply create the world around us through the power of the will. This is a kind of individualistic fascism. Around the time the philosophy became popular in the seventies, some conservative Christian theologians were actually thinking along very similar lines: seeing electronic money as a kind of extension for God’s creative power, which is then transformed into material reality through the minds of inspired entrepreneurs. It’s easy to see how this could lead to the creation of a world where financial abstractions feel like the very bedrock of reality, and so many of our lived environments look like they were 3-D-printed from somebody’s computer screen. In fact, the sense of a digitally generated world I’ve been describing could be taken as a perfect illustration of another social law—at least, it seems to me that it should be recognized as a law—that, if one gives sufficient social power to a class of people holding even the most outlandish ideas, they will, consciously or not, eventually contrive to produce a world organized in such a way that living in it will, in a thousand subtle ways, reinforce the impression that those ideas are self-evidently true.
— David Graeber, The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Human kind is already perfect, Technology is getting stronger but we are getting weaker
— Pak Ho
I call it the Goldilocks effect: We can't get enough of each other we can have each other at a digital distance—not too close, not too far, just right. But human relationships are rich, messy, and demanding. When we clean them up with technology, we move from conversation to the efficiency of mere connection. I fear we forget the difference.
— Sherry Turkle
I call it the Goldilocks effect: We can't get enough of each other if we can have each other at a digital distance—not too close, not too far, just right. But human relationships are rich, messy, and demanding. When we clean them up with technology, we move from conversation to the efficiency of mere connection. I fear we forget the difference.
— Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
We cannot go back to the lost oral world, any more than we can turn the clock back to a time before the clock existed. 'Writing and print and the computer,' writes Walter Ong, 'are all ways of technologizing the word'; and once technologized, the word cannot be de-technologized.
— Nicholas Carr, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
There was a beauty to an elegantly designed circuit board that rivaled anything found in nature.
— Kit Rocha, Beyond Ruin
Today cinema can place all its talent, all its technology in the service of reanimating what it itself contributed to liquidating. It only resurrects ghosts, and it itself is lost therein.
— Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
A woman in her late sixties described her new iPhone: "it's like having a little time square in my pocketbook. All lights. All the people I could meet.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
This man was being kept alive by those machines. Someone was trying to help him. They were just trying to help. All the horrible things we've seen are just people trying to help, aren't they? To make the work a little easier, and the world a little easier for people to live in. And it turned into a nightmare.
— J.M. McDermott, Straggletaggle
From the earliest days, videogame players were less interested in winning than in going to a new psychic place where things were always a bit different, but always the same. The gambler and the videogame player share a life of contradiction; you are overwhelmed, and so you disappear into the game.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Talking on a landline with no interruptions used to be an everyday thing. Now it's exotic
—  the jewel in the crown.
Way to defuse a situation. It's tough to enjoy a good bloodbath in the middle of a PowerPoint presentation.
— Nina Bangs, Eternal Pleasure
When one becomes accustomed to "companionship" without demands, life with people may seem overwhelming. Dependence on a person is risky but it also opens us to deeply knowing another.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
My cell phone is my only individual zone, just for me.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Computers brought philosophy into everyday life.
— Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
... it is because we have acquired technical knowledge without understanding the total process of life that technology has become a means of destroying ourselves
— Krishnamurti
Money and machines anesthetize neediness. They put us in charge, in control. As long as the money holds out and the machines are in good repair, we don't need to pray.
— Eugene H. Peterson, Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus in His Stories and Prayers
Being sceptical about technology is like deciding whether or not you should breath.
— pfano percy rathogwa
He closed the laptop. A sure sign I was about to receive his full attention.
— Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
It's going to happen whether you like it or not,” he said quietly.The top of the book dropped to display Susan's wrinkled gaze. “What's that?”“Change,” Rich said. “It's inevitable.
— Danika Stone, Edge of Wild
If one sentence were to sum up the mechanism driving the Great Stagnation, it is this: Recent and current innovation is more geared to private goods than to public goods. That simple observation ties together the three major macroeconomic events of our time: growing income inequality, stagnant median income, and the financial crisis.
— Tyler Cowen
Human technology can only go as far as the limitations set by God. Daniel 12:3-4
— Felix Wantang, God's Blueprint of the Holy Bible: Volume 2
He pulled the truck onto the shoulder of the road and parked, cell phone tight in one hand, his eyes on the landscape before him. From here he could see the foothills rippling out like a blanket from the ragged edge of the mountains. They spread in loose folds until becoming the flat expanse of prairie that crossed all the way to the Great Lakes. July's bounty was a brash flare of colour: wind combed through golden tracts of wheat and sun-bright canola so brilliant he had to squint.The truck was balanced along the edge of an invisible wall which blocked Waterton from the rest of the world. He hadn't thought about how very real that barrier was; now that his phone was reconnected, it felt like a physical presence. He wasn't quite sure what he'd find on the other side.
— Danika Stone, Edge of Wild
America's mission is to join the most ancient civilizations with the most modern. John Augustus Roeblin
— H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
Yahoo .. Yet another hierarchical officious oracle
— أحمد خالد توفيق, WWW
Adams was in a hurry and ordered his horse drawn carriage to wait for him in front of his house. The horses were spooked before he got in the carriage, and the carriage was destroyed in an accident. Pondering what could have happened to him , Adams retreated to Psalm 20's injunctions against trusting in chariots and horses.
— Paul C. Nagel, John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life
Apart from technological aspects businesses should always have the human value.
— Amitav Chowdhury
... and Lynn is dead inside, like a corpse. She Instagrams methodically, clinically, as if she's gathering evidence for defense, like her entire life is dedicated to proving that she has a life.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
The Internet is still in its infancy. When it reaches adulthood, the Internet will change how we live and work.
— Kambiz Mostofizadeh
For a long time, it was one of these things where—I was really much younger than now—my whole "brand" both to the investors and to our board members was this crazy Russian boy-genius who comes out and sprinkles magic dust on technology and things just work.
— Max Levchin
Joshua Joseph had no great hatred of modern technology - he just mistrusts the effortless, textureless surfaces and the ease with which it trains you to do things in the way most convenient to the machine. Above all he mistrusts duplication. A rare thing becomes a commonplace thing. A skill becomes a feature. The end is more important than the means. The child of the soul gives place to a product of the system.
— Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker
In SLA management, you think services, see SLA, hear SLO, perform SLA management.
— Mussadiq Abdul Rahim
The technology of the future is made possible by the science of today.
— Kambiz Mostofizadeh
Thing in Everything
— Syed Sharukh
The Machine stops.""What do you say?""The Machine is stopping, I know it, I know the signs."She burst into a peal of laugher.
— E.M. Forster
If present rates of improvement continue, however, we would expect the cruising range of electric cars, for example, to intersect with the average range demanded in the mainstream market by 2015, and electric vechicle acceleration to intersect with mainstream demands by 2020.
— Clayton M. Christensen
To measure market needs, I would watch carefully what customers do, not simply listen to what they say. Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group. Thus, observations indicate that auto users today require a minimum cruising range (that is, the distance that can be driven without refueling) of about 125 to 150 miles; most electric vehicles only offer a minimum cruising range of 50 to 80 miles. Similarly, drivers seem to require cars that accelerate from 0 to 60 miles per hour in less than 10 seconds (necessary primarily to merge safely into highspeed traffic from freeway entrance ramps); most electric vehicles take nearly 20 seconds to get there. And, finally, buyers in the mainstream market demand a wide array of options, but it would be impossible for electric vehicle manufacturers to offer a similar variety within the small initial unit volumes that will characterize that business. According to almost any definition of functionality used for the vertical axis of our proposed chart, the electric vehicle will be deficient compared to a gasolinepowered car.This information is not sufficient to characterize electric vehicles as disruptive, however. They will only be disruptive if we find that they are also on a trajectory of improvement that might someday make them competitive in parts of the mainstream market. The trajectories of performance improvement demanded in the market—whether measured in terms of required acceleration, cruising range, or top cruising speed—are relatively flat. This is because traffic laws impose a limit on the usefulness of ever-more-powerful cars, and demographic, economic, and geographic considerations limit the increase in commuting miles for the average driver to less than 1 percent per year. At the same time, the performance of electric vehicles is improving at a faster rate—between 2 and 4 percent per year—suggesting that sustaining technological advances might indeed carry electric vehicles from their position today, where they cannot compete in mainstream markets, to a position in the future where they might.
— Clayton M. Christensen
In America, a pedestrian is someone who has just parked their car.
— Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do
Technology and Science is what you make it.
— Techno Geek Zone
This society eliminates geographical distance only to produce a new internal separation.
— Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
Software testing is a sport like hunting, it's bughunting.
— Amit Kalantri
Technology would have long ago made privacy impossible, except that this had only made it more precious and desirable--and in the close confines of starship life, respect for another's privacy had become a powerful tradition.
— Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek I: The Motion Picture
If you accept mass production, you accept that a small number of people will supervise the daily existence of a much larger number of people. You accept that human beings will spend long hours, every day, engaged in repetitive work, while suppressing any desires for experience or activity beyond this work. The workers' behaviour becomes subject to the machine. With mass production, you also accept that huge numbers of identical items will need to be efficiently distributed to huge numbers of people and that institutions such as advertising will arise to do this. One technological process cannot exist without the other, creating symbiotic relationships among technologies themselves.
— Jerry Mander, Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
We -humans - are wizard who turn miracles into technology.
— Stefan Emunds
It can be argued that the computer is humanity’s attempt to replicate the human brain. This is perhaps an unattainable goal. However, unattainable goals often lead to outstanding accomplishment.
— Zubair Saleem Fazal
Just because we grew up with the Internet, we think that the Internet is all grown up.
— Patrik Svensson
The latest technologies are often sexy, but beware of solutions that vendors dress up like trollops, unless you're looking for a one-night stand.
— Stephen Few, Signal: Understanding What Matters in a World of Noise
The internet can be many things, of course. Too often it's a cesspool of distraction, a place we indulge in the modern sport of snark and schandenfrende, building the case for our own bigotries, where we mock and thereby dismiss the suggering of others.
— Strayed, Cheryl
Technology is too crazy for me, but I would be very happy when they make phone that can cook.
— Patricia Dunn, Rebels by Accident
It was like setting up a guillotine in the public square.You don't expect a thousand people to line up to put their heads in it.
— Dave Eggers
The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information.
— T.J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
If you've never mistyped your password, it isn't complex enough.
— D. Clarence Snyder
If you wait until the next upgrade, you will never upgrade.
— Wilson Alvarez
Computers are idiots whose only virtue is that they can count up to two extremely fast.
— Christopher Bryan, Singularity
Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
— H.W. Brands, Reagan: The Life
In the technological world...it is no longer a question of dominating nature or society in order to be more free or more happy, but of mastery for mastery's sake, of domination for the sake of domination. Why? For no end, precisely, or rather: because it is quite simply impossible to do otherwise, given the nature of societies entirely governed by competition, by the absolute imperative to 'advance or perish'.
— Luc Ferry, A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living
Technologies of the soul tend to be simple, bodily, slow and related to the heart as much as the mind. Everything around us tells us we should be mechanically sophisticated, electronic, quick, and informational in our expressiveness - an exact antipode to the virtues of the soul. It is no wonder, then, that in an age of telecommunications - which, by the way, literally means "distant connections" - we suffer symptoms of the loss of soul. We are being urged from every side to become efficient rather than intimate.
— Thomas   Moore
To speak of television as 'neutral' and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.
— Jerry Mander
I consider it extremely doubtful whether the happiness of the human race has been enhanced by the technical and industrial developments that followed in the wake of rapidly progressing natural science.
— Erwin Schrödinger, Science and Humanism, Physics In Our Time
We live during a time in which some shoppers shiver all Thanksgiving night only to trample one another to death in a sunrise race through the electronics store to buy gaming consoles that allow them to create avatars of themselves.
— Joe Dilley, The Game Is Playing Your Kid: How to Unplug and Reconnect in the Digital Age
The problem, really, is that while humanity continues to experience huge leaps in technology, we experience no equivalent leaps in our ethical capacity. In the never-ending arms race between technology and ethics, technology always wins. Researchers who tally the results of this immortal race have a name for it: history.
— David J. Morris
Even a small amount of unplanned downtime can effect a company’s profitability and reputation.
— Ratmir Timashev, CEO Veeam
Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.
— Kim   Wright
I pride myself in being a technology innovator, so our specialty at Veeam is our laser-focused commitment to R&D, but you cannot build solid solutions without knowing what the goals are for your customers.
— Ratmir Timashev, CEO Veeam
Sales Force Automation Software Role in Better Sales Management
— pepupsales
Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
In many homes, technology meant to illuminate the mind ends up only illuminating the living room.
— Joe Dilley, The Game Is Playing Your Kid: How to Unplug and Reconnect in the Digital Age
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 booted up, and I hated the way Marissa stopped answering questions or noticing me the second it was turned on.
— Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our skills are tested and refined. A medical professor describes the easy familiarity with which her digital-native resident students master medical electronic records—but is troubled by the fact that they enter data with their eyes focused on their digital devices, not on the patient in the room with them. Preoccupation with technology acts as a screen between the student and the patient’s real emotion, real fear, and real concern. It may also prevent these residents from noticing physical symptoms that the patient fails to mention. The easy busyness of medical record entry is a way to sidestep the more challenging dynamics of human connection. But experienced physicians know that interpersonal skills are essential to mastering the art and science of medical diagnosis.
— Marian Deegan, Relevance: Matter More
You just can’t take for granted just how absolutely predatory the technology space is.
— Sean Silcoff
No wires tender even as nervescan transmit the impact ofour seasons, our catastropheswhile we are closed inside them
— Margaret Atwood, The Animals in That Country
It [advanced technology] had isolated the people of the old world from nature, shielding them from the consequences of imbalance, and yet they’d believed, right up until the very end, that it would save them. But…advances in technology could never compensate for failures in empathy.
— Ambelin Kwaymullina, The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf
The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.
— Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall
Sensing my delight at seeing his laptop, Tom asked me, "William, have you ever seen the Internet?""No."In a quiet conference room, Tom sat me down at his computer and explained the track pad, how the motion of my fingers guided the arrow on the screen."This is Google," he said. "You can find answers to anything. What do you want to search for?""Windmill."In one second, he'd pulled up five million page results-pictures and models of windmills I'd never even imagined.
— William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope
I am positive that in the vast majority of cases we are hammering nails with microscopes.
— Arkady Strugatsky
One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.
— Edward Tenner
Anna, like most English speakers, thought GASP was a silly name for the project. But the name got the point across. If there were modern wonders of the world, GASP - and Kali - stood as far above them as the Colossus of Rhodes had stood above man.
— A. Ashley Straker, Connected Infection
There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. That's true of all types of consumer electronics.
— Trip Hawkins
To live in modernity--an era contemporaneous with the triumph of the news--is to be constantly reminded that, thanks to science and technology, change and improvement are continuous and relentless. This is part of the reason we must keep checking the news in the first place: we might at any moment be informed of some extraordinary development that will fundamentally alter reality. Time is an arrow following a precarious, rapid and yet tantalizingly upward trajectory.
— Alain de Botton, The News: A User's Manual
The business we're in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers' abilities to communicate with each other than their abilities to communicate with machines.
— Tom DeMarco, Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
Technology isn’t what makes us “post-human” or “transhuman,” as some writers and scholars have recently suggested. It’s what makes us human. Technology is in our nature. Through our tools we give our dreams form. We bring them into the world. The practicality of technology may distinguish it from art, but both spring from a similar, distinctly human yearning.
— Nicholas Carr, The Glass Cage: Automation and Us
The events of the Titanic disaster can be seen as a symbol of what happens through overconfidence in technology, complacence, and a mindset of profits over people's safety.
— Deborah Hopkinson, Titanic: Voices From the Disaster
I was aware that I was taking inordinate pleasure in small, technological events and objects, and that this was probably a semiconscious tactic meant to evade confronting certain agonizing life events which were probably not resolvable and were destined to cause unrelenting pain and distress; yet the pleasure was real, and I took it greedily.
— David Cronenberg, Consumed
He watched the desert slip under the airship's nose, and the land roughened into highlands over which he had traveled at great cost, in great pain - dreamlike, such speed, looking down on a world where time moved more slowly, where realities were different and immediate and he had learned for a time to live.
— C.J. Cherryh, The Faded Sun Trilogy
...people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
— Neil Postman
These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The First Salute
The world is fast changing and until you learn to adapt and adjust to stand out from the masses, you will fade into oblivion
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
. .his cell phone didn't work in Three Pines, and neither did email. He almost expected to see messages fluttering back and forth in the sky above the village, unable to descend.
— Louise Penny
The tools that would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
— Plato, The Republic
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.
— Ivor Brown
We were bleeding information from the nose and ears, though dazed and disoriented was not how I experienced it. Most of the time, I felt like I was three years old, high on chocolate cake and social networks, constantly wired, ingesting information and news about information, books and books about books, data and metadata—I was, in other words, overstimulated yet gluttonous for more.
— Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
What, exactly, is the Internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a “modem” can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo.
— Dave Barry
The invention of the mechanical clock was one of a number of major advances that turned Europe from a weak, peripheral, highly vulnerable outpost of Mediterranean civilization into a hegemonic aggressor.
— David S. Landes, Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World
When you agree to help one person, you ultimately have to disappoint someone else; it's like a karmic law.
— Katie Kacvinsky, Still Point
Every technology will alienate you from some part of your life. That is its job. Your job is to notice. First notice the difference. And then, every time, choose.
— Michael  Harris
Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.
— Dave Barry
the screen and keyboard account for much of computers' weight. The intelligent part of a computer is a thousand times smaller than a Gucci buckle.
— Ted Sargent, The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology is Changing Our Lives
Now, as a non-Amish person in the twentieth century who is not a part of the aging and thus noncoveted seventy-five-plus marketing demographic that views things like cell phones and iPads with that quaint, old-people mixture of astonishment, fascination, confusion, and abject fear, I spend as much time pawing my cell phone as members of the postpubescent marketing demographic spend pawing each other and themselves.
— BikeSnobNYC
Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job.
— Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things
I am writing this on a computer that I can’t imagine living without. This is an alarming thought, the extent to which I have organised my life around a metal box full of wires (and, via the Internet, to many other metal boxes full of wires). Someone told me most of the Internet is stored in a warehouse somewhere in North Carolina. I don’t know enough about technology to gauge if this is true, but it made me realise how little I actually understand about the world I inhabit. The world of Dr Wong’s childhood was significantly smaller than mine, but he understood every square inch of it.
— Jeremy Tiang, Durians Are Not the Only Fruit
Not having a specified launch plan and process is one of the biggest pitfalls in the technology market.
— Brian Lawley, Optimal Product Process
Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate...
— Clay Shirky
Data may disappoint, but it never lies.
— Jay Samit, Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation
Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly pay homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.
— Martin Heidegger
The Pirates' most advanced and widely discussed technological innovation is an online system called LiquidFeedback, which allows the party to better understand what its members think about issues of the day. Here is how it works: Any member of the party can register (with the optino of using a pseudonym) with LiquidFeedback and propose that the Pirates should do x. If more than 10 percent of other members find this proposal intriguing, it passes to the next stage, in which party members can vote for or against it.After the proposal has been submitted, and before it has moved to the voting stage, other party members can launch counterproposals on a similar subject or make suggestions about how to improve the original one. What's interesting is that party members can transfer their votes to those they consider more knowledgeable about a given subject; thus, someone recognized as an expert on transportation policy might end up casting ten votes rather than one. To prevent some such experts from accumulating and abusing power, transferred votes can be recalled to their original "ownders." The votes cast in LiquidFeedback are not bniding; they simply inform party officials about the views of the grass roots. Big policy proposals are still discussed and voted upon at the party congress. LiquidFeedback thus aims to provide the intellectual inputs to the Pirates' work; the outputs are still determined by rather conventional means.This all sounds great in theory...but the reality is much grimmer. In one German region, reports Der Spiegel, the Pirates used LiquidFeedback to gather general opinions on only two issues, while only twenty votes were cast in the controversial law on circumcision.
— Evgeny Morozov
It happens to us all. We drink too much, take one too many hits of acid, proposition the wrong prostitute and end up by the side of some freeway, disheveled and disoriented.
— Kenyon Ledford
Here (in Thomas Aquinas) is the mind that prepared the way for the scientific and industrial revolutions. Here is the mind that was Catholic enough to embrace any good idea, from wherever it came.
— John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
Information age. I guess I'm part of it, even if I can't remember how to use my iPhone from week to week, and have to learn how to send e-mails all over again every couple of years, and can't retain any profound technological knowledge about the computers I sometimes use.
— Anne Rice
Technology implies belligerence.
— Peter Watts, Blindsight
To some people, there is no noise on earth as exciting as the sound of three or four big fan-jet engines rising in pitch, as the plane they are sitting in swivels at the end of the runway and, straining against its brakes, prepares for takeoff. The very danger in the situation is inseparable from the exhilaration it yields. You are strapped into your seat now, there is no way back, you have delivered yourself into the power of modern technology. You might as well lie back and enjoy it.
— David Lodge, Small World
Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.
— Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
People are lazy that’s why today’s technology is crazy.
— Santosh Kalwar, One-liners
I've never heard a writer feel that way about a device with a screen. Oh sure, they're functional, practical. We would be lost without them. But just as we need to feel our feet on the earth, smell and taste the world around us, the pen scratching against the page, sensory and slow, is the difference between looking at a high-definition picture of a flower and holding that very same flower in your palm, feeling the brush of its petals, the color of its stamen rubbing off on your fingers.
— Dani Shapiro, Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life