Alexander Graham Bell on technology

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Albert Einstein1879–1955

• Science

The function of RAM is to give us guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest, most tumescent MEMORY. This is important, because with today’s complex software, the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages. So the bottom line is, if you’re a guy, you cannot have enough RAM.

Dave Barryborn 1947

• Dave Barry

Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth.

Dave Barryborn 1947Cyberspace (1996)

• Dave Barry