Georges Pompidou on Technology
Friday, November 21st, 2008There 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
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Clifford Stoll on Technology
Monday, November 17th, 2008The Internet is a telephone system that’s gotten uppity.
- Clifford Stoll
William Gibson on Technology
Saturday, November 15th, 2008The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
- William Gibson
William Gibson on Technology
Friday, November 7th, 2008The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.
- William Gibson
William Gibson on Technology
Thursday, November 6th, 2008The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
- William Gibson
William Gibson on Technology
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Why shouldn’t we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
- William Gibson
William Gibson on Technology
Tuesday, October 14th, 2008I don’t have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
- William Gibson
Arthur C. Clarke on Technology
Sunday, September 28th, 2008Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Marshall McLuhan on Technology
Sunday, September 14th, 2008Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools.
- Marshall McLuhan
Ambrose Bierce on Technology
Monday, August 18th, 2008Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
- Ambrose Bierce
