#techno

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #techno




The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.


John McKinley


#business model #doing #essential #essential thing #expected

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.


John Stuart Mill


#any #being #day #human #human being

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.


Rupert Murdoch


#everywhere #proved #regimes #technology #telecommunications

Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.


Major Owens


#doing #i #people #proven #reasons

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


#identity #leisure #technology #work #art

I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does.


Douglas Coupland


#consumer-culture #end-of-the-word #feudalism #technology #age

The information age is so psychotic – without the cell phone and Internet, I would be drama free right now.


Lauren Barnholdt


#humor #information-age #technology #age

I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls.


Booth Tarkington


#technology #transportation #beauty

Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology.


Charles Petzold


#computer-science #programming #technology #beauty

Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom Increasing mutualism Increasing beauty Increasing sentience Increasing structure Increasing evolvability


Kevin Kelly


#technology #beauty