Technology Quotes

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
- Oscar Wilde

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
- Thomas Alva Edison

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a child's goodnight.
- Thomas Alva Edison

Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
- Thomas Alva Edison

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
- Thomas Alva Edison

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money so that I can afford to go on creating more inventions
- Thomas Alva Edison

What hath God wrought?
- Samuel F B Morse

The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.
- John Spencer

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once.
- Isaac Asimov

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
- Herbert Simon