Quotes tagged ‘Technology’

“The update was quickly walked back, but not before #InstagramUpdate was trending on Twitter, with a combination of rage, fear and Bird Box memes.”

— ELLE.com, marieclaire.com

“Everywhere I went online this year, I was asked to prove I’m a human. Can you retype this distorted word?”

— Max Read, nymag.com

“Mental health is a complex, multi-layered issue. Having suffered from anxiety and depression myself, I know how difficult it is to articulate my feelings even to a trained human being, who can see my facial expressions and hear the nuanced inflections in my voice, or even my body language.”

— Dr. Pragya Agarwal, forbes.com

“We say that we “search the Web,” but we don’t, really; our search engines traverse an index of the Web—a map.”

— James Somers, newyorker.com

“While we were playing on our phones and apps, our democratic institutions seem to have been upended by frat-boy billionaires from California.”

— Canadian Member of Parliament, Noam Cohen, wired.com

“If I can put on my old lady hat for a moment, I will say that teens spend too much time on screens and not enough time making out behind Sbarro dumpsters. Oral herpes rates have dropped to a disturbing all-time low!”

— Melanie LaForce, amazon.com

“Personalization is not just a trend. It’s going to be the future of all consumer products.”

— Julissa Treviño, medium.com

“We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics.”

— Katherine Johnson, brainyquote.com

“Hobb: Robert, these machines are conscious! Robert: How do you know they don't just simulate it? Hobb: How do I know you don't?”

— Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent, Hobb, Danny Webb, imdb.com

“Computers aren't the thing. They're the thing that gets us to the thing.”

— Christopher Cantwell, Christopher C. Rogers, Joe MacMillan, Lee Pace, imdb.com

“Theresa Murphy: Technology doesn't solve cases. Cops do. Gideon Reeves: You haven't met my technology.”

— David Slack, Gideon Reeves, Justin Kirk, imdb.com

“My son, they used to say there would never be a self-driving car until they made one. I can beat this thing. I know it.”

— Rodney Barnes, Michael Vukadinovich, Victor Stein, James Marsters, imdb.com

“James Calley: The instinct to avenge a partner's death is something you don't see anymore. David Hume: Yeah, I can see how that would get lost when you live your life under a surveillance camera. James Calley: You're not suggesting the attempts to make this a safer and more perfect world have actual…”

— Art Monterastelli, James Calley, Matthew Bennett, imdb.com

“Just knowing that her killer is behind bars should bring me some comfort, some closure. The only problem is this: I think they got the wrong guy. I now have evidence, evidence that has never been made public, evidence that makes me believe that they have incarcerated the wrong man, and whoever did t…”

— Ted Humphrey, Jeffrey Tanner, Jeremy Piven, imdb.com

“One thing I didn’t anticipate is how much fun it would be to text my own kid and hear back from her. It’s like getting to see a different side of her–a more grown-up version and a window into the future of the funny things we will tell each other.”

— Kelle Hampton, kellehampton.com

“There is no magic gauge in the cockpit that shows that there is a phone with its cellular connection or Wi-Fi not turned off.”

— Allison Markey, foodandwine.com

“Technology changes. Human biology doesn’t.”

— Tracey Rice, Patrick Cunnane, Tom Kirkman, Kiefer Sutherland, imdb.com

“[a video message left for his son] Tony, you're too young to understand this now, so I thought I would put it on film for you. [gestures to his model of Stark Expo] I built this for you. And someday, you'll realize that it represents a whole lot more than people's inventions. It represents my life's…”

— Justin Theroux, Howard Stark, John Slattery, imdb.com

“This raises the question: As we grope toward the brave new automated world, is a university degree in, say, economics, philosophy, English, or anything else that isn’t to do with fixing cobots (collaborative robots) or writing algorithms, worth the PDF file it was exported on? Or is it, practically…”

— Matt Blake, vice.com

“The ultimate goal of a revolutionary movement today must be the total collapse of the worldwide technological system.”

— Ted Kaczynski, archive.org