Tracy Kidder Quotes

For all the great dreams profitlessly invested in the digital computer, it is nonetheless true that not since the framers of the American Constitution took seriously the idea that all men are created equal has an idea so transformed the material conditions of life, the expectations of the race.

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

We cannot turn back the clock. We cannot undo the impact of technology. Nor would we want to.

It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape.

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

Our successes have been so great and so rapid that, within 20 years, we've gotten a third of the world's population online, shrunk our computers to the size of our hands, and connected each to each.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

If you'd asked me in 1980 what the big impact of microprocessors would be, I probably would have missed the PC. If you asked me in 1990 what was important, I probably would have missed the Internet.

Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come.

People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion photography, it won't come into television, it won't come into my daily communications, it won't come into my telephone, my microphone, my light control, my microwave radio, my - I mean, just name it.

Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.

Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life

We're all swimming in this digital revolution that we live in.

Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress.

We think that computers are the most remarkable tools that humankind has ever come up with, and we think that people are basically tool users. So if we can just get lots of computers to lots of people, it will make some qualitative difference to the world.

That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet-Mars in particular-but we 're not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen.

Technology transforms people's lives. From mitigating poverty to simplifying processes, ending corruption to providing better services, Technology is omnipresent. It has become the single-most important instrument of human progress.

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

These are the days of lasers in the jungle, staccato signals of constant information.