#tech

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect. ↗

— Esther Dyson

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Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#after #arts #civilizations #gift #gifts

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

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I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window. ↗

— John Eaton

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Defect-free software does not exist. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#does #exist #free software #software

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability. ↗

— Robin Trower

#music #nothing #technical #technical ability #your

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#big #create #get #go #huge

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#makes #mass #mass media #media #possible

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#become #civilization #defining #efficiency #force

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. ↗

— Brian Eno

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