Technology Quotes
We’ve all been set-it-on-fire-and-toss-it-out-the-window frustrated at one point or another, so it’s easy to understand why technology is so often the target of comedians. Sure, technology makes our lives easier. We use remote controls for everything, our cars can park themselves, we even have robots to clean our floors. The future is now! But then comes that moment when the computer suddenly shuts down without warning or apparent reason. The email containing the plan we spent 2 hours working on just disappears. Cell phones do everything but connect calls. The copier jams. Again.
Oh yes, technology is a wonderful thing. When it works. These quotes discuss both the joys and sorrows that come along with our ever-changing technology and its impact on our lives.
A computer will do what you tell it to do, but that may be much different from what you had in mind.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Computers have enabled people to make more mistakes faster than almost any invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?
I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won’t last out the year.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.
Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
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