Bill Gates Quotes

Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

I detest computers. If you had a device like that 30 years ago that froze up constantly, misbehaved constantly, lost your information and screwed up when you needed it the most, it would have been laughable.

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

The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

Complex systems work until the day that they don’t work.

As a form of escapism, yearning for the 20th century is understandable, but in practice it would be horrible - sort of like going on a holiday promising yourself you could go without the Internet, only to crumble and walk in a daze to the local Internet cafe to gorge on connectivity.

The world is so heavily influenced by technology, and it has started to feel like it's not on solid ground. The world has become unreliable, unknowable. Facts are vulnerable, and things you have come to rely on are no longer there.

Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology.

We are stuck with technology when all we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognize something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.

Technology, in short, cannot teach me how to do without technology.

Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet.

My computer must be broken: whenever I ask a wrong question, it gives a wrong answer.

We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.

I think we need to take a look at the technology, but not depend on it for things that require humanity.

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

President Obama said that we rely too much on gadgets. He gave a passionate speech about technology, but he had to stop when the teleprompter broke.

We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.

I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I'm on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable.

It's interesting that we are sensorially deprived. And not always because of poverty or hunger, but because we have been really indoctrinated into such a way that we don't sit in the present. Technology takes the place of food often.

The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.

Technology has to be accessible otherwise it enslaves us, and I'm not really in favour of that.

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.