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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983
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 future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.
William Gibsonborn 1948“The Science in Science Fiction”, Talk of the Nation, NPR (30 November 1999)
- Time
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).
The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological — technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018From Hawking’s article A Brief History of Relativity, in Time magazine (31 December 1999)
- Change
- Science
If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed.
Stephen Hawking1942–2018“Science AMA Series: Stephen Hawking AMA Answers!”, reddit.com (8 October 2015)
- Economics
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
Grace Hopper1906–1992On the removal of a 2-inch-long moth from the Harvard Mark II experimental computer at Harvard in 1947, as quoted in Time 16 April 1984
- Computers
Everyone is a programmer now. You just have to say something to the computer.
Jensen Huangborn 1963“Nvidia chief Jensen Huang says AI is creating a ‘new computing era’” in Financial Post (30 May 2023)
- 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
The invention of printing is the greatest event in history. It is the mother of revolution.
Victor Hugo1802–1885The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (1831), Book Fifth, Chapter IIIn context
- History
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
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963Ends and Means (1937), Ch. 1, p. 9 [2012 reprint]
- Change
We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.
Steve Jobs1955–2011Interview in Macworld magazine (February 2004)
- Computers
- Television
Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random.
Donald Knuthborn 1938The Art of Computer Programming (1968–2011), Vol. II, Seminumerical Algorithms
- Computers
- Science