c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Human beings disappear
—  their histories remain.
Technology is grey. More technology, less colors. We're building a world with colors only in poems.
— Magdalena Ciocan
Modern scientific accomplishments" --a wealth of methods coupled with a poverty of intentions which, having nearly exhausted the hell-potential of the earth, move on now to the first frontier of the heavens.
— Kenneth Patchen, Collected Poems
Eric Schmidt likes to point out that if you recorded all human communication from the dawn of time to 2003, it takes up about five billion gigabytes of storage space. Now were creating that much data every two days
— Eli Pariser, The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You
Connecting products to the Web will be the 21st century electrification.
— Matt Webb
What a forced lifestyle our technology, our inventions imposed on our lives when we tried to live synonymously with computers; when we stepped inside their world, we left the natural one behind.
— Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken
As history has shown, any new computing device capable of running a game will, by hook or by crook, soon have them available. (aka, the "Loguidice Law")
— Bill Loguidice Matt Barton
Technology & Science is what you make it!!!
— TechnoGeekZone
The digital age believes in the rational ordering of human beings. We believe that information will eventually solve every conceivable problem.
— R.F. Georgy, Notes from the Cafe
War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn.
— Adrian R. Lewis
Pre-high tech, objects thunked and crashed and clopped, amid a thunder of drums, a tumult of trumpets. Today things beep and cheep and whistle. We have come from the roar of the lion to the chirp of the tree frog, ceaselessly bleating our identities while the frog-eating bats hover above us.
— A.J. Orde
She doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.
— Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Standing before costly objects of technological beauty, we may be tempted to reject the possibility of awe, for fear that we could grow stupid through admiration. We may feel at risk of becoming overimpressed by architecture and engineering, of being dumbstruck by the Bombardier trains that progress driverlessly between satellites or by the General Electric GE90 engines that hang lightly off the composite wings of a Boeing 777 bound for Seoul. And yet to refuse to be awed at all might in the end be merely another kind of foolishness.
— Alain de Botton, A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary
On the rare occasions on which a movie was shown, there was as much suspense in the audience over whether the electricity would hold out to the end of the film as there was in the film itself.
— Robert A. Caro, The Path to Power
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
— Jacques Ellul
If it hurts, do it more frequently, and bring the pain forward.
— Jez Humble, Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases Through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
Apparently, the glasses didn’t need to be connected to the internet for the wearer to poke into someone’s personal life. Even though a search engine could lead to an individual’s address, the browser couldn’t actually physically take you there. What had this inventor done? Did he have any idea?
— Chess Desalls, Travel Glasses
Technology brings mankind closer to divinity or extinction.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
I find these comparisons particularly poignant: life versus death, hope versus fear. Space exploration and the highly mechanized destruction of people use similar technology and manufacturers, and similar human qualities of organization and daring. Can we not make the transition from automated aerospace killing to automated aerospace exploration of the solar system in which we live?
— Carl Sagan, Mars and the mind of man
Death - Is only when the spirit evolves to a higher state that the body becomes old technology.
— Linda Deir
We live in an age of miracles so commonplace that it can be difficult to see them as anything other than part of the daily texture of living
— Tom Chatfield, How to Thrive in the Digital Age
I won't say that all senior citizens who can't master technology should be publicly flogged, but if we made an example of one or two, it might give the others incentive to try harder.
— Chuck Lorre
ADVERSE REVERSEAdvanced technology has regressed us into warmongering apes with superior weaponsKamil Ali
— Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales
The resource of generational history is accorded little attention our society, which seems ever more obsessed with making “new” and “better” synonymous. From my family I became aware of the importance of passing along wisdom from one generation to the next. Yet despite the increasing proliferation of digital recording and other communication technologies, we’re passing on less knowledge today than our parents did through the oral tradition alone. We’re drowning in photographs and videos, capturing every mundane moment of our birthdays, holidays, and vacations. Yet these can be no more than pleasant distraction, only scratching the surface of our real relationships.
— Ralph Nader, The Seventeen Traditions
In this section you will learn how to use the tools the way that I think you will choose to use them by default.
— Alan        Richardson, Selenium Simplified: A Tutorial Guide to Using the Selenium API in Java with JUnit
Similarly, Haynes (1998, viii) notes that many professional translators, and their organizations, remain remarkably uninformed with regards to the progress made in translation technology. He goes on to observe that many are so largely unenthusiastic about it - with attitudes lying somewhere between skeptical and scathing - their very ignorance seeming to contribute to their fear that their jobs will be threatened by this technology.
— Lynne Bowker, Computer Aided Translation Technology: A Practical Introduction
What's the point in being here if you have to follow a computer? What is this, a fucking Turing test in reverse?
— Ahmir Questlove Thompson, Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove
I would have been trying to pitch a concept about my community to someone that most likely was not a part of that community.
— Lamar Tyler, The Gatekeepers Are Gone: Hustle + Technology = Success
Those activities of an earlier day, furthermore, provided opportunities for cooperative action toward a common goal and for a sense of accomplishment that was not readily available to a modern technological society. For the 'city-bred child of today' (p. 21), such opportunities were no longer present, and the educational problem then became one of recreating in the school something of the occupations that in former times not only provided a sense of real purpose, but linked intelligence and cooperative action to what the work of the world required.
— Herbert M. Kliebard
Technology, while providing us many advantages, encourages us to race through our days so that we no longer know what we'd do if we were to slow down. Labor-saving devices seem not only to have failed to enhance the quality of our lives and free up more time, but get between us and the immediate, sensory pleasures of life and increase the pressures on us to do more. Many of us feel cut off from life's blessings, from our neighbors, from the wonders of nature, and from our sense of our own significance in the scheme of things. Modern life leaves us spiritually starved
— Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett
Normal Iraqi etiquette was forgotten the moment drivers sat behind the wheel.
— Davis Bunn, Lion of Babylon
These devices only became very popular after all of this technology was hidden behind a red button that did it all
— Mark Butje, Product Marketing for Technology Companies
The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind...
— Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
I wonder who had the first computer dream, where, and when? I wonder if computers ever dream of humans.
— David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
Radical space technologies never reach the public because unknown groups do not wish humanity to have access to the highest knowledge or the most advanced scientific inventions. Perhaps this suppression is out of fear that the masses may be able to explore our Solar System and the Universe beyond it. Whatever the case, it seems they want us to stay at ignorant levels forever.
— Takaaki Musha, The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.
— Bernard Stiegler, Acting Out
The world’s governments have many classified layers and outsiders rarely gain access to their hidden secrets. And certainly no common man can get confirmation of the existence of exotic technologies.
— Takaaki Musha, The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.
— Marcus Sakey, A Better World
Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence.
— Stephen King, It
Conceive a world-society developed materially far beyond the wildest dreams of America. Unlimited power, derived partly from the artificial disintegration of atoms, partly from the actual annihilation of matter through the union of electrons and protons to form radiation, completely abolished the whole grotesque burden of drudgery which hitherto had seemed the inescapable price of civilization, nay of life itself. The vast economic routine of the world-community was carried on by the mere touching of appropriate buttons. Transport, mining, manufacture, and even agriculture were performed in this manner. And indeed in most cases the systematic co-ordination of these activities was itself the work of self-regulating machinery. Thus, not only was there no longer need for any human beings to spend their lives in unskilled monotonous labour, but further, much that earlier races would have regarded as highly skilled though stereotyped work, was now carried on by machinery. Only the pioneering of industry, the endless exhilarating research, invention, design and reorganization, which is incurred by an ever-changing society, still engaged the minds of men and women. And though this work was of course immense, it could not occupy the whole attention of a great world-community. Thus very much of the energy of the race was free to occupy itself with other no less difficult and exacting matters, or to seek recreation in its many admirable sports and arts. Materially every individual was a multi-millionaire, in that he had at his beck and call a great diversity of powerful mechanisms; but also he was a penniless friar, for he had no vestige of economic control over any other human being. He could fly through the upper air to the ends of the earth in an hour, or hang idle among the clouds all day long. His flying machine was no cumbersome aeroplane, but either a wingless aerial boat, or a mere suit of overalls in which he could disport himself with the freedom of a bird. Not only in the air, but in the sea also, he was free. He could stroll about the ocean bed, or gambol with the deep-sea fishes. And for habitation he could make his home, as he willed, either in a shack in the wilderness or in one of the great pylons which dwarfed the architecture even of the American age. He could possess this huge palace in loneliness and fill it with his possessions, to be automatically cared for without human service; or he could join with others and create a hive of social life. All these amenities he took for granted as the savage takes for granted the air which he breathes. And because they were as universally available as air, no one craved them in excess, and no one grudged another the use of them.
— Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men
Technology has bridged the gap of distant communication,bringing friends and family closely together but no matter the number of ‘likes’, tweets, chats, comments, posts and shares, none can compare to a sincere smile, a kind kiss and a warm hug
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
The very definition of what it means to be alone has changed. To be physically alone is still relatively easy, but many of us struggle daily to turn off e-mail, computers, or cell phones... Our students...find requests not to text during these activities strange, annoying, and downright silly.
— José Antonio Bowen, Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning
Time for reflection and interaction is a casualty of the digital age, and one of the primary goals of higher education should be to reclaim this time.
— José Antonio Bowen, Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning
We, the garden of technology. We, undecidable.
— John Cage, I-VI: Methodstructureintentiondisciplinenotationindeterminacy Interpenetrationimitationdevotioncircumstancesvariablestruct Nonunderstandingcontingencyinconsistencyperformance
Mechanism! Everywhere -- mechanism! Devices for getting away from life so complete that there seemed no life to get away from.
— John Galsworthy, The White Monkey
There is no doubt that 'force multipliers' - squad automatic weapons - have changed the character of warfare once again, just as their predecessors did during the First World War, if perhaps not to quite the same degree. In the immediate future it seems that most armies will be using some form of 5.56mm machine-gun at squad level, be it a box-fed LSW or belt-fed SAW. If there is a cloud on the horizon where modern light machine-guns are concerned it is that they are not powerful enough for long-range work, or for penetrating cover and light armour. Nevertheless, the new generation of light machine-guns will remain in use well into the next century, not least because they are popular with the soldiers who operate them, the machine-gunners. Likewise, there will still be a place for the heavier GPMG, which does have the 'punch' that the LSW lacks.Machine-guns themselves have become lighter, and their operating principles both more secure and more efficient; the ammunition they use has shrunk to a quarter of its original size and become almost 100 percent reliable. The one important thing which has not changed dramatically is the human component; the attitude with which man faces the prospect of death in battle, and how he prepares himself to face that possibility quite deliberately, for it was the original invention of the machine-gun which reformed that. More than any other single 'advance' in weapons technology, the machine-gun allowed an individual (or actually, a small team of men) to dominate a sector of the battlefield. They had an inhuman advantage which simply had to be exploited if they were to be on the winning side, whether their opponents were Zulus, Sioux, or Dervishes, or other industrialized nations to be beaten into last place in the race toward economic supremacy. Whether the machine-gun has been as important, in any sense at all of the word, as it near-contemporary, the internal combustion engine - or even, date one say it, the bicycle or sewing machine - is still to be decided, but there is one clear, irrefutable fact connected with its short history: it has killed tens of millions of men, women and children and blighted the lives of tens of millions more.
— Roger Ford, The Grim Reaper: Machine Guns And Machine-gunners In Action
The new information technology, indifferent to human suffering, does not accommodate humane needs unless we harness it and make it do so.
— Mahnaz Afkhami, Leading To Choices: A Leadership Training Handbook For Women
Don't believe everything you see on the Internet.
— Abraham Linchon
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 Air Force simply do not appear to have had access to good intelligence about the Soviet military technological developments. How, then, were decisions made as to technologies to develop?Military research and development decisions are made amid great uncertainties. In an ideal world, such decisions would be managed by estimating the future costs of alternative programs and their prospective military values, and then pursuing the program with the best ratio of cost to value. But...there are tremendous difficulties in forecasting the real value and costs of weapons development programs. These uncertainties, combined with the empirical difficulty American technology managers had in collecting intelligence on the Soviet Union, meant that research and development strategies in the real world tended to become strategies for managing uncertainties. At least two such strategies are conceivable. One of the most politically important can be called, for want of a better phrase, "let the scientists choose." [This approach should be] compared with the theoretical and practical arguments for a strategy that concentrates on low-cot hedges against various forms of uncertainty.
— Stephen Peter Rosen, Winning the Next War
Media consumers in the 0s, 10s, 20s, and 30s have no such print alliances. To them, the idea of printing on a dead tree and then trucking it to houses and newsstands seems ludicrous, old-fashioned, inconvenient, and wasteful. To these folks, paper-based publications are a pain to carry and search, easy to misplace, and hard to share, and the information in them is outdated the moment it appears. For those who weren't raised on paper, digital is superior in almost every way.
— Bill bloodgett
Contemporary novels can have a fleeting existence within the current multiplication of medias and the technological rapidity with which art is delivered and consumed. A cultural lacuna has opened, one that needs arresting.
— Tom Cardamone, The Lost Library: Gay Fiction Rediscovered
...there's a difference between knowledge and technology. Knowledge don't fail us.
— Ally Condie
Technology fuels economy, unfortunately in today’s world it’s the fuel that drags economy
— Yatin Patel
Once upon a time the world was a realm of unanswered questions and there was room in it for poetry. Man stood beneath the sky and he asked “why?”. And his question was beautiful.The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask.Perhaps that is the way it has to be.
— James  Cameron
When you talk to a sympathetic mind about technology, gender, age, and experience disappear completely, and soon you’re one-on-one with the topic at hand.
— Carmelo S. "Nino" Amarena
The sensitive person's hostility to the machine is in one sense unrealistic, because of the obvious fact that the machine has come to stay. But as an attitude of mind there is a great deal to be said for it. The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.
— George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
We must not fixate on what this new arsenal of digital technologies allows us to do without first inquiring what is worth doing.
— Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
I am Become Text Message. Destroyer Of Words.
— Dean Cavanagh
If Amazon’s dream of a world without gatekeepers becomes reality, then the company itself will become a powerful gatekeeper.
— Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism
Don't Stare Into Your i-Phone Too Long Lest The Abyss Stares Back at You
— Dean Cavanagh
Face it, George – unlike cholera, death is the only disease everyone is guaranteed to get.’Heath nodded slowly. ‘But usually only once, Hamish. Usually only once.
— Nigel  Holloway, Second Death
An endless series of gambits backed by gigantic investments encouraged young people entering the online world for the first time to create standardized presences on sites like Facebook. Commercial interests promoted the widespread adoption of standardized designs like the blog, and these designs encouraged pseudonymity in at least some aspects of their designs, such as comments, instead of the proud extroversion that characterized the first wave of web culture.Instead of people being treated as the sources of their own creativity, commercial aggregation and abstraction sites presented anonymized fragments of creativity as products that might have fallen from the sky or been dug up from the ground, obscuring the true sources.
— Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.
— Jaron Lanier, You Are Not a Gadget
The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?
— Douglas Wilson, Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth
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, but all-too-necessary messiness of human interaction.
— Nick Bilton
Privacy and pollution are similar problems. Both cause harm that is invisible and pervasive. Both result from exploitation of a resource--whether it is land, water, or information. Both suffer from difficult attribution. It is not easy to identify a single pollutant or a single piece of data that caused harm. Rather, the harm often comes from an accumulation of pollutants, or an assemblage of data. And the harm of both pollution and privacy is collective. No one person bears the burden of all pollution; all of society suffers when the air is dirty and the water undrinkable. Similarly, we all suffer when we live in fear that our data will be used against us by companies trying to exploit us or police officers sweeping us into a lineup. (212-213)
— Julia Angwin, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance
If utilizing technology is not a crime then why there is prohibition on use of calculators in exams?
— Srinivas Shenoy
Nature is relic of pre-human civilizations.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest – sometimes with extensive borrowing – when and where matters of life and death are at stake.
— George Friedman, The Next Decade: What the World Will Look Like
New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information.
— Sara Sheridan
McAllister looked up into her face, his eyes blazing with anger. At last, his composure cracked.‘That’s right,’ he shouted back. ‘My word against – whose? Yours? You were dead, remember? No, of course you don’t remember. You were dead!
— Nigel  Holloway, Second Death
Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.
— David Cronenberg, Cronenberg on Cronenberg
Technology does make possible advance toward shalom; progress in mastery of the world can bring shalom nearer. But the limits of technology must also be acknowledged; technology is entirely incapable of bringing about shalom between ourselves and God, and it is only scarcely capable of bringing about the love of self and neighbour.
— Nicholas Wolterstorff, Until Justice and Peace Embrace: The Kuyper Lectures for 1981 Delivered at the Free University of Amsterdam
For when man is faced with a curse he answers, "I'll take care of my problems." And he puts everything to work to become powerful, to keep the curse from having its effects. He creates the arts and the sciences, he raises an army, he constructs chariots, he builds cities. The spirit of might is a response to the divine curse.
— Jacques Ellul, The Meaning of the City
I told [John Kruesi] I was going to record talking, and then have the machine talk back. He thought it absurd. However, it was finished, the foil was put on; I then shouted 'Mary had a little lamb', etc. I adjusted the reproducer, and the machine reproduced it perfectly.[On first words spoken on a phonograph.]
— Thomas A. Edison
Science affects the average man and woman in two ways already. He or she benefits by its application driving a motor-car or omnibus instead of a horse-drawn vehicle, and being treated for disease by a doctor or surgeon rather than a witch.
— J.B.S. Haldane
It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcoticized by technological diversions
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
The technology is the independent variable, the social system the dependent variable. Social, systems are therefore determined by systems of technology; as the latter change, so do the former.
— Leslie White
But the wireless," asked Momulla. "What has the wireless to do with our remaining here?" "Oh yes," replied Gust, scratching his head. He was wondering if the Maori were really so ignorant as to believe the preposterous lie he was about to unload upon him. "Oh yes! You see every warship is equipped with what they call a wireless apparatus. It lets them talk to other ships hundreds of miles away, and it lets them listen to all that is said on these other ships.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Son of Tarzan
Technology makes people equal, it gives them a fair advantage.
— Samer Chidiac, The Feel Doctor: The Uncovered Story of the World's Most Dangerous Mind
The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay.
— George Stephenson
When multi-national corporations are given the same powers as feudal states or nations: expect wars.
— Norman Hartley, The Viking Process
What’s wrong with turning back the clock if the clock is wrong? We need not be slaves to our technologies
— Neil Postman, How to Watch TV News
New capabilities emerge just by virtue of having smart people with access to state-of-the-art technology.
— Robert Kahn
Technology is your friend... When it works.
— Jack Wynn
Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
every successful hardware has a software behind
— Thiru Voonna
Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so) was speech - and both are still dangerous to this day - but human beings would not be human without them.
— Isaac Asimov
The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice
—  it’s technology.
Being forever available to the rest of the world is overrated. I mean, what are 'missed calls' invented for?
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Memory has always been social. Now we’re using search engines and computers to augment our memories, too.
— Clive Thompson
By the 1980's and 1990's, Moore's Law had emerged as the underlying assumption that governed almost everything in the Valley, from technology to business, education, and even culture. The "law" said the number of transistors would double every couple of years. It dictated that nothing stays the same for more than a moment; no technology is safe from its successor; costs fall and computing power increases not at a constant rate but exponentially: If you're not running on what became known as " Internet time," you're falling behind.
— John Markoff, What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
The longer a person's twitter @username is, the harder it is to argue with them … on twitter.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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 triumph of agriculture or of culture. It has been made possible by the substitution of energy for knowledge, of methodology for care, of technology for morality.
— Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
New Rule: Stop putting psychedelic screensavers on computers. I sit down to check my e-mail, and the next thing I know it's three days later, I'm in the desert, I'm banging on a drum, I'm naked, and somebody's pierced my dick.
— Bill Maher, The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
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 for every problem technology creates, we look to technology for solutions.
— James Rozoff, Perchance to Dream
You can’t argue with facts. You’re not entitled to your own facts.
— Steven Levy, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Kinko's is the soup kitchen for the technologically disadvantaged.
— Paul Orfalea
A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they're regular PCs and so they're not always the most reliable.
— Jessica Livingston, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging—to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it.
— Jessica Livingston, Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
It may well be that what we have hithertounderstood as architecture, and what we arebeginning to understand of technology, areincompatible disciplines. The architect whoproposes to run with technology knows nowthat he will be in fast company, and that inorder to keep up he may have to discard hiswhole cultural load, including the professionalgarments by which he is recognized as anarchitect. If, on the other hand, he decides notto do this, he may find that a technologicalculture has decided to go on without him.
— Rener Banham
On its first over was the famous picture of Earth taken from space; its subtitle was "Access to Tools." The underlying philosophy was that technology could be our friend. Brand wrote on the first page of the first edition, "A realm of intimate, personal power is developing- power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested. Tools that aid this process are sought and promoted by the Whole Earth Catalog.
— Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs
[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.
— Steven Levy, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Technology innovation for the sake of innovation is an empty shell if we focus on what people don't need but would buy anyways.
— Iveta Cherneva
The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among India’s poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is to chat with other people. And when the poor chat, it is not always about curing a child of diarrhea.
— Manu Joseph, Serious Men
As we watch, in fascination, the arresting replicas of reality on our television screen, there may sit, in the same room, a telephone and a phonograph. On our bedside table stands a radio; another accompanies us in our car. These strange machines never move unless we move them; they come alive only at our touch. But give them their due: they serve us well. They provide the far-flung, trillion-nerved ganglia of commerce, of news, of our mighty military forces. And down through the days and nights of our lives, they ward off our loneliness and bring us nearer together. Perhaps someday they will make us brothers.
— Robert O'Brien, Machines
technology leads to lower costs when it replaces workers' salaries. It does the opposite when it requires more highly-trained workers to utilize that technology. Higher education, medicine, dentistry and the legal profession all provide examples.
— Robert B. Archibald, Why Does College Cost So Much?
There is a world out there, so new, so random and disassociated that it puts us all in danger. We talk online, we ‘friend’ each other when we don’t know who we are really talking to – we fuck strangers. We mistake almost anything for a relationship, a community of sorts, and yet, when we are with our families, in our communities, we are clueless, we short-circuit and immediately dive back into the digitized version – it is easier, because we can be both our truer selves and our fantasy selves all at once, with each carrying equal weight.
— A.M. Homes, May We Be Forgiven
Nature is cheaper than therapy.
— M.P. Zarrella
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.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically inform friends that, like, 'rain sucks!' But there's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
To grant the power of a weapon master to anyone at all, without effort, without training and proof that the lessons have taken hold, is to deny the responsibility that comes with such power.
— R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver
Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
A phone call should be a convenience to the caller, not an inconvenience to the called.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Technology sometimes encourages people to confuse busyness with effectiveness.
— Douglas B. Reeves, Transforming Professional Development Into Student Results
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 at inconvenient times, we will soon be able to do everything by electricity; who knows but some genius will invent something for the especial use of lovers? something, for instance, to carry in their pockets, so when they are far away from each other, and pine for a sound of 'that beloved voice,' they will have only to take up this electrical apparatus, put it to their ears, and be happy. Ah! blissful lovers of the future!
— Ella Cheever Thayer, Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes
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 news but news without context, without consequences, without value, and therefore without essential seriousness; that is to say, news as pure entertainment.
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
The space is appropriately shoe-boxy and all the shelves are there. I've set them up with a coordinate system, so my program can find aisle 3, shelf 13 all by itself. Simulated light from the simulated windows casts sharp-edged shadows through the simulated store. If this sounds impressive to you, you're over thirty.
— Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
When you decide to meet—in person—someone that you met online, would you then be taking your relationship to the 'previous' level?
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The civilized man is technologically ahead of — intellectually behind — his time.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A moral judgment of abortion is the usage of a man-made ideology to judge a man-made technology.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.
— michael p naughton
At X-Feer, we teach how to solve problems not how to write a code because that's the most important thing in coding.
— Ahmed Abu Taha
It ain't technology that enhances the civilization..but the way mankind perceives nature from all standpoints.
— Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Software will give you respect, but hardware will give you the Power.
— Akshat Paul, Rubymotion IOS Develoment Essentials
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.
— Aaron Hirsh
Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that's because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access to information for intelligence. We think that because we know how to use iPhones (but not build them), browse the Internet (but not understand how it works), and use Google (but not really know anything), our educational system is working just great. By the same token, we think that those dumb aristocrats who used horses to get around and didn't have electricity were neanderthals.
— Glenn Beck, Cowards: What Politicians, Radicals, and the Media Refuse to Say
While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology.
— Newton Lee
The result is that the same generation is in danger of growing up with 170 terabytes of knowledge and information, but not more than a few bits of wisdom.
— Sachin Kalbag
No matter how fast weapons and technology evolve in the 21st century, one thing remains constant is that war is a human endeavor, a grueling contest between two learning and adaptive forces. Victory, therefore rests on how smart, how tough, and how dedicated our boots on the ground.
— Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono
It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.
— Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October
Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.
— Eloisa James, Paris in Love
Regular crises perpetuate the past by reinvigorating cycles which started long ago. In contrast, (capital-C) Crises are the past's death knell. They function like laboratories in which the future is incubated. They have given us agriculture and the industrial revolution, technology and the labour contract, killer germs and antibiotics. Once they strike, the past ceases to be a reliable predictor of the future and a brave new world is born.
— Yanis Varoufakis, The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
In every tool we create, an idea is embedded that goes beyond the function of the thing itself.
— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
It is no longer just engineers who dominate our technology leadership, because it is no longer the case that computers are so mysterious that only engineers can understand what they are capable of. There is an industry-wide shift toward more "product thinking" in leadership--leaders who understand the social and cultural contexts in which our technologies are deployed.Products must appeal to human beings, and a rigorously cultivated humanistic sensibility is a valued asset for this challenge. That is perhaps why a technology leader of the highest status--Steve Jobs--recently credited an appreciation for the liberal arts as key to his company's tremendous success with their various i-gadgets.
— Damon Horowitz
Everywhere he went he saw this same phenomenon—parents unmindful of their children, their attention fixed on little glass windows in the palms of their hands, mesmerized like drug addicts, longing for some artificial connection while their own flesh and blood careened wildly through a chaotic and violent world behind their backs. The writer was even worse. He invented false worlds and peopled them with ghosts while his motherless son scanned the horizon for a human connection. It was shameful. What did a man need to lose to be shaken from his immersion in a dream? What terminal force could liberate him from the pursuit of phantoms and engage him in the living world around him?
— Douglas Wynne, Steel Breeze
Currently spirituality is at an ebb in the more advanced technological societies. This in part because memes that validate spiritual order tend to lose their credibility with time, and need to be recast in new forms again and again. At present we are living in an era when many of the basic tenets of Christianity, which has supported Western spiritual values for almost two thousand years, have come into conflict with the conclusions of science and philosophy. While religions have lost much of their power, science and technology have not been able to generate convincing value systems to replace them.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The most valuable commodity of the 21st century will be undivided attention.
— Phil Cooke
The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless.
— Bilal Hussain
Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.
— Ridley Pearson, Killer View
Nature is the ultimate technology; a technology we are still too immature, arrogant, possessive and careless to care for responsibly.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war's made less grand than peace.
— Herman Melville
Database Management System [Origin: Data + Latin basus "low, mean, vile, menial, degrading, ounterfeit."] A complex set of interrelational data structures allowing data to be lost in many convenient sequences while retaining a complete record of the logical relations between the missing items. -- From The Devil's DP Dictionary
— Stan Kelly Bootle
For good or for bad, we define ourselves in many ways by the gadgets we use and the clothes we wear. We don't want to surround ourselves with cheap products. Nobody really aspires to that. We also don't want to pay for a diamond-encrusted ereader. We don't need bling; we just need to feel like the design speaks to us.
— Jason Merkoski, Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading
Failure isn't something to be embarassed about; it's just proof that you're pushing your limits, trying new things, daring to innovate.
— Gavin Newsom, Citizenville: Connecting People and Government in the Digital Age
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— jamey hsu
Ancient miracles are technological wonders.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
The ultimate form of our technological achievement will be identical to the beginning state of this nature.
— Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
Inventions have long-since reached their limit--and I see no hope for further developments." -- Julius Frontinus, world-famous engineer (Rome, 10 AD)
— Julius Frontinus
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want to be. We get to edit, and that means we get to delete, and that means we get to retouch, the face, the voice, the flesh, the body -- not too little, not too much, just right.
— Sherry Turkle
An algorithm must be seen to be believed.
— Donald Ervin Knuth, Leaders in Computing: Changing the digital world
Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.
— Cory Doctorow, Little Brother
Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.
— Steven Spielberg
If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.
— Steve Jobs
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.
— John Green
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them: it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in. Even idleness is eager now—eager for amusement; prone to excursion-trains, art museums, periodical literature, and exciting novels; prone even to scientific theorizing and cursory peeps through microscopes. Old Leisure was quite a different personage. He only read one newspaper, innocent of leaders, and was free from that periodicity of sensations which we call post-time. He was a contemplative, rather stout gentleman, of excellent digestion; of quiet perceptions, undiseased by hypothesis; happy in his inability to know the causes of things, preferring the things themselves. He lived chiefly in the country, among pleasant seats and homesteads, and was fond of sauntering by the fruit-tree wall and scenting the apricots when they were warmed by the morning sunshine, or of sheltering himself under the orchard boughs at noon, when the summer pears were falling. He knew nothing of weekday services, and thought none the worse of the Sunday sermon if it allowed him to sleep from the text to the blessing; liking the afternoon service best, because the prayers were the shortest, and not ashamed to say so; for he had an easy, jolly conscience, broad-backed like himself, and able to carry a great deal of beer or port-wine, not being made squeamish by doubts and qualms and lofty aspirations.
— George Eliot, Adam Bede
Joshua Joseph has no real 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....For anything really important, Joe prefers something with a history, an item which can name the hand which assembled it and will warm to the one that deploys it. A thing of life, rather than one of the many consumer items which humans use to make more clutter; strange parasitic devices with their own little ecosystems.
— Nick Harkaway, Angelmaker
I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition theusers to employ each other the way they employ machines.
— Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
To be honest, my life has exhibited many strange and sometimes troubling characteristics, but shortness is not one of them. It feels like an eternity since I started school and a techno-social epoch since I moved to San Francisco. My phone couldn't even connect to the internet back then.
— Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Technology doesn’t change people’s basic needs or their natures.
— Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin
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 life, to explore space with robots. The technology is already well along....the real thrill will be in learning in detail what is out there...It is an especially dangerous delusion if we see emigration into space as a solution to be taken when we have used up this planet....Earth, by the twenty-second century, can be turned, if we so wish, into a permanent paradise for human beings...
— Edward O. Wilson, The social conquest of Earth