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  • Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. – Levitating Trains and Kamikaze Genes
  • Beware of computer programmers that carry screwdrivers. – Leonard Brandwein
  • The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. – Saint Exupery
  • Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C.Clarke

Source : http://technologyie.wordpress.com

  • “We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.” ― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
  • “First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we’ve realized it’s a brochure.” ― Douglas Adams
  • “That’s sad. How plastic and artificial life has become. It gets harder and harder to find something…real.” Nin interlocked his fingers, and stretched out his arms. “Real love, real friends, real body parts…”  ― Jess C. Scott, The Other Side of Life
  • “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.”  ― Pablo Picasso
  • “Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”  ― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals and into the Methods Employed for Their Realization
  • “At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.” ― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
  • “My wish simply is to live my life as fully as I can. In both our work and our leisure, I think, we should be so employed. And in our time this means that we must save ourselves from the products that we are asked to buy in order, ultimately, to replace ourselves.” ― Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
  • “We’re born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It’s been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much – if at all.”  ― Steve Jobs
  • “Don’t explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.”  ― Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  • “Be a surfer. Watch the ocean. Figure out where the big waves are breaking and adjust accordingly.”  ― 37 Signals, Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application
  • “Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.”  ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
  • “Ethics change with technology.”  ― Larry Niven, N-Space
  • “As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.”  ― Don DeLillo
  • “First we build the tools, then they build us.”  ― Marshall McLuhan

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