Technology Limitation Quotes

As a parent, I tell my boys to keep away their smartphones and go outdoors and play. I take them to our farm where my father does a bit of farming, where they get their hands dirty. It is their digital detox.

I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper.

It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A machine to write a book instead of a writer is not invented yet, and probably will never be.

This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

I think I'll be one of those moms that doesn't raise her kids with too much technology around because I didn't have much of that growing up. I was creative and played with what I had.

Humans are still much better than computers at recognizing speech.

Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.

I never work on a computer. I can't write on a computer. It's just not possible for me to do that.

I'm not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.

Stop relying only on technology. Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him.

I love the energy and the knowledge. I barely know how to use this thing [mobile phone]. I get by.

Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, 'You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.'

In the morning at home, I'm not functioning as an entrepreneur - I completely limit technology and any work-think - I'm functioning as a mom and a wife.

Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

The vast majority of people do not have, nor will they ever have a personal computer. They haven't been exposed to Windows or Office, or anything like that, and in their lives it's unlikely that they will.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

As technology tries to maintain its dizzying ascent, one dead weight has kept its altitude in check: the battery.

The reason that some motion-capture films don't work is if the scripts are not good, and the characters aren't engaging, then you don't believe in the journey, and you're not connected to it. It's not the technology's fault.

Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people.

I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.

If you develop a technology that only works in a single city, where it's kind of optimized for a specific city, that's not really that exciting.

It is nice to know that the computer understands the problem. But I would like to understand it too.