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Landlord: A man who aims to lease
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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

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

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Readying them, however, has not changed.
Lawrence C Powell

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.
Andrew Brown

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
Clive James

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.
Clifford Stoll

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.
Mary Pickford

Key Ring: A handy little gadget that allows you to lose all your keys at once
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
Alan Perlis

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

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.
John P Barlow

I have an almost religious zeal - not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
Dan Millman

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while online.
Andy Grove

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.
Andy Grove

The internet is a great way to get on the net.
Bob Dole

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so, in a sense, it is all about potential.
Steve Ballmer

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.
Alvin Toffler

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

Jackpot: When all the kids stay at friends' homes for the night
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It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.
Esther Dyson

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

Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.
Jonathan Sacks

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

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.
Alan Kay

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.
Graham Greene

Iconomic: Making do with fewer icons on your computer desktop
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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
Larry Wall

Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.
Laurence J Peter

A satellite has no conscience.
Edward R Murrow

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.
Tom Hanks

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Alfred Whitehead

You affect the world by what you browse.
Tim Berners-Lee

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
Andy Rooney

Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity.
Robin S Sharma

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.
Arnold H Glasow

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
George Lucas

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
Dave Barry

Bill Gates is a very rich man today, and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
Dave Barry

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Arthur C Clarke

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
R Buckminster Fuller

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

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce

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

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.
Pope Paul VI

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P Feynman

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
Fred Allen

Hamster: The animal least likely to be found in a synagogue
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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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