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
There 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
The Internet is a telephone system that’s gotten uppity.
- Clifford Stoll
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
- William Gibson
The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.
- William Gibson
The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.
- William Gibson
Why 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
I don’t have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
- William Gibson
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools.
- Marshall McLuhan
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
- Ambrose Bierce