Dan Brown Quotes

The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.

No particular technology lasts for long.

Technology has the shelf life of a banana.

Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.

When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.

I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

And because technology is moving so rapidly, things become obsolete very, very quickly. In 15 years time, Will Caster is probably going to be in some weird room in Vegas where people are plugging quarters into him. Who has a mini-disc of a laser disc player? It's over!

A good piece of technology dreams of the day when it will be replaced by a newer piece of technology. This is one definition of progress.

The world is littered with corpses that predicted technology in a particular arena was done. If there's another gigantic step change out there, we don't yet know what it is.

Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens.

You can't do anything interesting with cutting-edge technology except not make it cutting-edge.

I think the technology today is so much more advanced that it gives kids a lot more freedom... Back then it was a lot different.

Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

I'm not terribly technological. I'm awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent.

I look at my son and his relationship to technology, and I think back to when I was six and how wildly different the world is in that regard. I see him using an iPhone and all this stuff, and then I think back to when I was six. We didn't even have computers in our houses at all yet. This is a huge gap between our experiences as children.

Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch.