The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
I don’t mind if somebody texts me but I’m not a big texter, the things are too small. I don’t mind if they text, ‘7 o’clock,’ that’s fine, that’s logistics but, ‘What’s up?’ Get real! Pick up a phone!
Microsoft isn’t evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
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.
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.
We’ve arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
Cyberspace can’t compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.
The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
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.
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day’s toil of any human being.
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
A satellite has no conscience.
My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars – this is very important – so you don’t have to carry the return fuel when you go there.
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.
