Quotes on Computer Technology

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.

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Nothing could be more misleading than the idea that computer technology introduced the age of information. The printing press began that age, and we have not been free of it since.