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“I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being molded by the computer.”
Camille Paglia
Technology
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Web
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Education
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Children
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Society
2.
“Video games and YouTube are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.”
Camille Paglia
Media
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Technology
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Video Games
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YouTube
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Web Design
3.
“I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.”
Camille Paglia
Web
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Books
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Library
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Knowledge
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Technology
4.
“Computer enhancement has spread to still photography in advertisements, fashion pictorials, and magazine covers, where the human figure and face are subtly elongated or remodeled at will. Caricature is our ruling mode.”
Camille Paglia
Technology
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Photography
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Art
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Advertising
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Media
5.
“Nothing man has discovered or imagined is to be named with the steam engine. It has no fellow. Franklin capturing the lightning, Morse annihilating space with the telegraph, Bell transmitting speech through the air by the telephone, are not less mysterious – being more ethereal, perhaps in one sense they are even more so – still, the labor of the world performed by heating cold water places Watt and his steam engine in a class apart by itself.”
Andrew Carnegie
Invention
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Technology
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Progress
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Industry
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Innovation
6.
“I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated mechanism – man.”
Andrew Carnegie
Humanity
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Understanding
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Technology
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Curiosity
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Wisdom
7.
“My perspective is this: my allegiance is to the best product for my needs. For a computer, this means Macintosh. For phone and tablet, this means Android.”
Guy Kawasaki
Technology
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Preference
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Choices
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Computing
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Experience
8.
“Many Android users aren't aware of some things that Android can already do, such as supporting the enforcement of companywide security policies, encrypting phone data, and providing e-mail and calendar widgets that update in real-time. Our job is to help people and businesses discover and use these features.”
Guy Kawasaki
Technology
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Android
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Security
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Business
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Innovation
9.
“I love the notification system on Google+. If someone mentions you, you get notified via Gmail. That's very useful for someone like me.”
Guy Kawasaki
Technology
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Communication
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Social Media
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Convenience
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Efficiency
10.
“People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.”
Guy Kawasaki
Marketing
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Cost
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Social Media
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Technology
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Business
11.
“Steve Jobs proves that it’s OK to be an asshole... He just has a different OS.”
Guy Kawasaki
Steve Jobs
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Leadership
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Personality
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Technology
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Success
12.
“Jolt is for Windows programmers. It’s typical IBM PC: it goes in brown and comes out yellow. Mountain Dew is for Macintosh programmers: it goes in yellow and comes out yellow. It’s WYSIWYP.”
Guy Kawasaki
Programming
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Technology
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Humor
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Computing
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Comparison
13.
“To say that Windows 95 is just like the Mac is like finding a potato in the shape of Jesus and thinking you have witnessed the second coming.”
Guy Kawasaki
Technology
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Comparison
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Humor
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Innovation
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Perspective
14.
“Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.”
Guy Kawasaki
Innovation
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Risk
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Technology
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Product Development
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Entrepreneurship
15.
“I think a lot of the logic of Google+ is much better in terms of notification of messages to you, in terms of how you post. One very obvious feature is that with Google+, after you post something, you can edit it forever. That is true of both posts and comments. I edit almost every post I make and almost every comment I make.”
Guy Kawasaki
Google+
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Social Media
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Editing
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Technology
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Communication
16.
“Social media allows me to pick my times for social interaction.”
Guy Kawasaki
Social Media
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Communication
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Balance
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Technology
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Connection
17.
“A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.”
Guy Kawasaki
Humor
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Technology
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Programming
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Failure
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Perspective
18.
“I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.'”
Guy Kawasaki
Mindset
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Technology
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Experience
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Perspective
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Wisdom
19.
“This is the beauty of social media: it helps you find people and then you can contact them fast and inexpensively.”
Guy Kawasaki
Social Media
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Communication
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Networking
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Technology
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Marketing
20.
“I have a fax machine with “fax waiting”.”
Steven Wright
Technology
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Humor
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Nostalgia
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Observation
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Irony
21.
“I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, “Hey, these records are all blank.””
Steven Wright
Technology
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Mistakes
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Humor
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Irony
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Perspective
22.
“I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.”
Steven Wright
Wordplay
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Time
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Technology
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Humor
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Perspective
23.
“I have an answering machine in my car. It says, I’m home now. But leave a message and I’ll call when I’m out.”
Steven Wright
Technology
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Communication
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Irony
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Devices
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Humor
24.
“I couldn’t find the remote control to the remote control.”
Steven Wright
Technology
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Devices
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Irony
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Frustration
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Humor
25.
“I got a garage door opener. It can’t close. Just open.”
Steven Wright
Technology
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Humor
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Absurdity
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Everyday Life
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Mistakes
26.
“Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery’s dead?”
Steven Wright
Habits
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Logic
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Technology
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Reactions
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Humor
27.
“I Xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra Xerox machine.”
Steven Wright
Technology
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Reflection
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Absurdity
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Humor
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Paradox
28.
“I went to the hardware store to buy some batteries, but they weren’t included, so I had to buy them again.”
Steven Wright
Shopping
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Technology
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Irony
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Humor
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Absurdity
29.
“I just got this new camera. It’s very advanced – you don’t even need it.”
Steven Wright
Technology
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Cameras
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Absurdity
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Humor
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Innovation
30.
“I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader’s Digest on microfilm. By the time I got the machine set up, I was done.”
Steven Wright
Reading
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Speed
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Technology
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Humor
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Irony
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