Technology proverbs

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◆ The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

- Sydney J. Harris99

◆ The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

- Bill Gates99

◆ 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 Ballmer99

◆ Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

- Gertrude Stein99

◆ Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

- James Surowiecki99

◆ One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

- Elbert Hubbard99

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

- Andrew Brown99

◆ Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

- Jonathan Sacks99

◆ Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

- Mitchell Kapor99

◆ 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 Dyson99

◆ We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

- Scott Cook99

◆ The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

- John F. Kennedy99

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

- Dave Barry99

◆ The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

- Demetri Martin99

◆ Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

- Jimmy Carter99