Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.
The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We’ve never wavered from that vision.
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don’t really even notice it, so it’s part of everyday life.
We are not even close to finishing the basic dream of what the PC can be.
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without talking about the other.
There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.
While we’re all very dependent on technology, it doesn’t always work.
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
Today’s science fiction is tomorrow’s science fact.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.
My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer.
The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.