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Technology Quotes
"Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips."
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"Stomp stomp. Whirr. Pleased to be of service.Shut up.Thank you.Stomp stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. Thank you for making a simple door very happy.Hope your diodes rot.Thank you. Have a nice day.Stomp stomp stomp stomp. Whirr. It is my pleasure to open for you...Zark off....and my satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.I said zark off.Thank you for listening to this message."
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"Ford carried on counting quietly. This is about the most aggressive thing you can do to a computer, the equivalent of going up to a human being and saying "Blood...blood...blood...blood..."
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"If automating everything makes people lazier and lazier, and laziness leads to stupidity, which it does for most people, judging by the current content circulating the social networks everywhere, except North Korea, where they don't have any internet to speak of - at some point the Japanese robots, for which a market niche is currently being developed, with no concerns on how they should be designed to act in society or outside it - will have no choice, but to take everything over, to preserve us from ourselves."
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"New Rule: You can't force the ATM to do something it doesn't want to do. Excuse me, lady in front of me at the Citibank ATM, but you've been standing there punching buttons for ten minutes--what are you trying to do, write a novel on it? You hear those beeping noises? That's the ATM saying, 'Stop it, you're hurting me.' A chicken would have gotten forty bucks out of that thing by now just by pecking the buttons randomly."
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"Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health."
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"Iko held up a hand. "You need a system debug if you're suggesting that I would abandon you know."
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"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
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"I'm getting a daily email from Microsoft which I have been ignoring that states a hacker is trying to access my account. As far as the Microsoft account goes, the hacker can have it...along with all of the nasty Windows 10 upgrade problems!"
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"Outlier CIOs have better capabilities to connect innovation dots."
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"A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums."
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"TELEPHONE n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance."
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"The day internet stops functioning forever, so many works will get missing forever!"
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"But it's a hundred and twelve years old! He protested."She still works pretty good. Deire maintained. "Stardrive gets a mite twitchy at warp 4, but that's just a dodgy plasma injector."
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"There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surveillance devices."
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"The humanoids told Don that if he went home with a whore, she would cook him a meal of petroleum and coal products at fancy prices. And then, while he ate them, she would talk dirty about how fresh and full of natural juices the food was, even though the food was fake."
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"Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings."
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"And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful."
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"Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another."
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"In another thirty to fifty years, the demand for cheap labor will have produced even more machines over the employment of actual humans. And in that time frame, humans will have lost their voice, their power, all freedoms, and all worth. It is inevitable that machines will one day become the ultimate enemies of mankind. We are not evolving or progressing with our technology, only regressing. Technology is our friend today, but will be our enemy in the future."
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"In this fast-paced digitally connected world, your competitor is only a WhatsApp message away. Be reachable by every medium possible."
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"IT continues to grow in importance to organizations, both operationally and as a competitive advantage."
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"A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives."
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"Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space."
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"There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time."
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"New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information."
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"As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal."
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"We are so much distracted nowadays. There is so much distractions in the world today call it internet, media, football matches etc. but don't let it consume you."
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"Digital innovation is a dynamic storybook that has intricate chapters, with a serendipitous cover, which can be flipped over to the next level, but it is a book that never ends."
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"I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing."
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"We still live in the era in which information is rich and insight is poor."
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"Each year the world Rich lived in felt more and more like a huge electronic haunted house in which digital ghosts and frightened human beings lived in uneasy coexistence."
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"When all is said and done, the invention of writing must be reckoned not only as a brilliant innovation but as a surpassing good for humanity. And assuming that we survive long enough to use their inventions wisely, I believe the same will be said of the modern Thoths and Prometheuses who are today devisingcomputers and programs at the edge of machine intelligence."
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"The Machine stops.""What do you say?""The Machine is stopping, I know it, I know the signs."She burst into a peal of laugher."
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"When computers are able to imagine, then humanity will get its death notice."
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"They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could have made better time with a horse."
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"If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can't say, 'I changed my mind."
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"I like the trail that the Internet created. For example, I was watching one of those Douglas Sirk movies, and I noticed that Rock Hudson towered over everyone, and I typed in 'How tall was' and I saw 'How tall was Jesus,' and I'm like, 'Sure,' and half an hour later you're somewhere you didn't expect to be. It doesn't work that same way in books, does it? Even if you have an encyclopedia, the trail isn't that crazy. I like that aspect of it."
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"The Singularity is at once an escape and a birth fantasy. I said to him: A Zeus dream that avoids the organic body altogether. Brand-new creatures burst forth from men's heads. Presto! The mother and her evil vagina disappears."
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"Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains."
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"It is seriously creepy when you receive a friend request from a dead friend in social media asking you to accept."
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"Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students."
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"Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine."
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"It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California."
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"By the end of the 1950s, American cars were so reliable that their reliability went without saying even in car ads. Thousands of them bear testimony to this today, still running on the roads of Cuba though fueled with nationalized Venezuelan gasoline and maintained with spit and haywire."
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"There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable."
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"Everyone will be tracked, cradle to grave, with no possibility of escape."
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"If Metias joined the Patriots, he'd be a Hacker too. If he were alive."
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"Communication land lines are going to be around for a long time, the internet runs on them, as do the wireless cell phone towers."
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"It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate on anything much. The deep, immersive thinking which produced many of civilization's most important achievements has come under unprecedented assault. We are almost never far from a machine that guarantees us a mesmerizing and libidinous escape from reality. The feelings and thoughts which we have omitted to experience while looking at our screens are left to find their revenge in involuntary twitches and our ever-decreasing ability to fall asleep when we should."
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