Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherry Turkle

We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.

Sherry Turkle

People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of Wired magazine. Then things began to change. In the early 80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.

Sherry Turkle

It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation. I do studies where I just sit for hours and hours at red lights watching people unable to tolerate being alone. Its as though being along has become a problem that needs to be solved and then technology presents itself as a solution to this problem…Being alone is not a problem that needs to be solved. The capacity for solitude is a very important human skill.

Sherry Turkle

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

Sherry Turkle

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

Sherry Turkle

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

Sherry Turkle

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

Nicolas Cage

I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.

Nora Roberts

What is technology?... It's another god.

Niels Bohr

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

Mignon McLaughlin

Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.

Johnny Marr

In the earlier part of the 90s, I was really hell-bent on discovering how new technology works and how to make records entirely without a producer, which isn't necessarily what fans wanted. But I had to do it because I felt it was in my destiny or whatever.

John R. Allen

One would think that if you're anonymous, you'd do anything you want, but groups have their own sense of community and what we can do.

There's a popular misconception that property boundaries are based on coordinates that surveyors can simply "walk to" with our instruments. The reality is that, while physical coordination of monuments is easier than it's ever been, property boundaries often need to be determined based on evidence and plans that are old, decrepit, and done with different technology and expectations than we have today.

Mason Cooley

Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.

Marvin Minsky

It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.

Marvin Minsky

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

Michael Chertoff

We now have capabilities in science and technology that raise the very realistic possibility that a small group of terrorists could kill not only thousands of people, as they did on September 11th, but hundreds of thousands of people. And that has changed the dimension of the threat we face.

Mia Wasikowska

In our world, we have so many ways we can escape with technology, like TV, Facebook, computers, text messaging and all that.

Michio Kaku

Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology.

Michio Kaku

Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet reception?' Well, in some sense, yeah. ... All the wonders of quantum physics were learned basically from looking at atom-smasher technology. ... But let me let you in on a secret: We physicists are not driven to do this because of better color television. ... That's a spin-off. We do this because we want to understand our role and our place in the universe.

Michio Kaku

There are dangers, but only dangers if people don't understand where technology is taking us.

Michio Kaku

The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door.

Michel Gondry

When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.

Michel Gondry

I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.

Michel Gondry

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

Michael K. Powell

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.

Michael K. Powell

I love my DSL, but I love my WiFi more. And I probably get on the Internet 40 percent to 50 percent more because of the combination of those technologies.

Martin Sorrell

And there are some - Bernie [Ecclestone] and others - who are embracing new technologies. When Sky UK started to broadcast there was an argument that audience would come down because it is pay TV. But the actual quality of the production and the use of technology and the engagement of the viewer is much better than it ever was. The product is simply better.