While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
I see no reason to suppose that these machines will ever force themselves into general use.
1st Duke of Wellington
Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
It will do us little good to wire the world if we limit our vision. It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circuit our souls.
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
When I was finishing grad school, the hot new PC was the IBM 286. Bulky. Immobile. Expensive. I touched-typed easily and quickly, but nevertheless, I realized that the machine was a chain.
I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.
I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer.
The point is technology and innovation have advanced far past what DCGS is capable of doing. It's not an agile enough tool to be able to incorporate and integrate the most advanced technology that is on the shelf today that can be bought by our forces that frankly our war-fighting units want.
If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.
There's a reason why Smellovision has never really taken off. And I think it's a good thing.
I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.
Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.
I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.
Spell-check ruins my work. It fixes all my slang and dialect into standard English. So I'm caught in a tangle of technology that feels very foreign to me.
There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.
I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.
Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
I don't even have a computer.
At some point, Moore's law will break down.
If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.
