7.10.12

Kutipan (Quote) - Technology (2)

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Larry Wall

You affect the world by what you browse.
Tim Berners-Lee

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
Georges Pompidou

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.
Edward R. Murrow

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
Alan Perlis

It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
William Gibson

Defect-free software does not exist.
Wietse Venema

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
Tim Berners-Lee

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
Tim Berners-Lee

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
Jean Arp

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.
Meg Whitman

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
John Perry Barlow

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.
Ralph Nader

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan Perlis

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
William Gibson

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.
Andy Grove

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
Bruce Sterling

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
Esther Dyson

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
Orrin Hatch

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
John Perry Barlow

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
Carrie P. Snow

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
Alvin Toffler

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
Dan Millman

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.
Niklas Zennstrom

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
Scott Cook

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

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
William Gibson

For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
Wernher von Braun

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
Arnold H. Glasow

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
Jaron Lanier

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
Jaron Lanier

What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
Tim O'Reilly

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
E. F. Schumacher

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.
Michael K. Powell

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
Alan Kay

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
Clifford Stoll

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