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

People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.
Alan Kay

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Alan Kay

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry Wall

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
John Perry Barlow

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
Tim Berners-Lee

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.
Jean Arp

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.
Jaron Lanier

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley

Technology has to be invented or adopted.
Jared Diamond

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
Freeman Dyson

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
Theodor Adorno

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
Carrie P. Snow

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Ambrose Bierce

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
William Gibson

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
William Gibson

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 Gates