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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
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018Speech at Macworld Expo in Boston, as quoted in The Daily News (4 August 1994). A nearly identical quote can be found at the end of the second paragraph of his lecture Life in the Universe (1996).
To us, the moment 8:17 A.M. means something⁠—something very important, if it happens to be the starting time of our daily train. To our ancestors, such an odd eccentric instant was without significance⁠—did not even exist. In inventing the locomotive, Watt and Stevenson were part inventors of time.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963
- Time
Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the
level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect.
This is because the primary function of the government is⁠—and here I
am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution⁠—‘to spew out paper.’
Dave Barryborn 1947Dave Barry in Cyberspace
- Dave Barry
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
- War & Peace
Experts tell us that if the Millennium Bug is not fixed, when the year 2000 arrives, our financial records will be inaccurate, our telephone system will be unreliable, our government will be paralyzed and airline flights will be canceled without warning. In other words, things will be pretty much the same as they are now.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dave Barry
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Man and Superman (1903), The Devil
- Life & Death
People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.
Christopher Morley1890–1957
- Science
Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC’s hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know.
Bill Gatesborn 1955
- Computers
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Bill Gatesborn 1955
- Business
The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.
Ronald Reagan1911–2004Post-presidency (1989–2004)
- Computers
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (1911), p. 151