Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.
The Linux philosophy is ‘Laugh in the face of danger’. Oops. Wrong One. ‘Do it yourself’. Yes, that’s it.
Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don’t trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
Technology has to be invented or adopted.
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.
Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Men have become the tools of their tools.
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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.
The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.
Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
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.
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?
