Quotes about Technology

In 2010, computerised trading systems created the stock-market Flash Crash; what would a computer-triggered crash look like in the defence arena?

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.

This is a timely warning for those who live at the end of the age when digital devices provide information so quickly that thinking is no longer needed.

A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.

I wonder, said Miss Oliver, if humanity will be any happier because of aeroplanes. It seems to me that the sum of human happiness remains much the same from age to age, no matter how it may vary in distribution, and that all the 'many inventions' neither lessen nor increase it.

Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Computer science … jobs should be way more interesting than even going to Wall Street or being a lawyer--or, I can argue, than anything but perhaps biology, and there it's just a tie.

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

The solution of mankind's most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.