Technology(116)

"Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's jobs with yesterday's tools."
Marshall McLuhan

"The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it."
Scott McNealy

"Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights."
Scott McNealy

"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."
John Stuart Mill

"I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world."
Walter Mossberg

"If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener."
Walter Mossberg

"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."
Edward R. Murrow

"People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans."
Ralph Nader

"There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians."
Georges Pompidou

"We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed."
Lawrence Clark Powell