Technology

(20 votes)   Encryption...is a powerful defensive weapon for free people. It offers a technical guarantee of privacy, regardless of who is running the government... It's hard to think of a more powerful, less dangerous tool for liberty.

Esther Dyson

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(309 votes)   The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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(207 votes)   We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.

Edward Dahlberg
1900-1977, American Author, Critic

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(191 votes)   Microsoft is a bully. Microsoft is trying to hoodwink nontechnical people.

Stewart Alsop

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(184 votes)   I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.

Jim Allchin

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(153 votes)   I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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(107 votes)   Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(105 votes)   I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

Mahatma Gandhi
1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader

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(100 votes)   Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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(93 votes)   UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

Dave Barry

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(79 votes)   It's [the internet] like the flu - it just spreads like crazy.

Jack Welch

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(78 votes)   The Internet browser... is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later.

Dave Barry

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(74 votes)   If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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(69 votes)   It [the computer] is the first metamedium, and as such it has degrees of freedom for representation and expression never before encountered and as yet barely investigated.

Alan Kay

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(60 votes)   Since the invention of the microprocessor, the cost of moving a byte of information around has fallen on the order of 10-million-fold. Never before in the human history has any product or service gotten 10 million times cheaper-much less in the course of a couple decades. That's as if a 747 plane, once at $150 million a piece, could now be bought for about the price of a large pizza.

Michael Rothschild

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