Tech Quotes

“Seemingly innocuous language like 'Oh, I'm flexible' or 'What do you want to do tonight?' has a dark computational underbelly that should make you think twice. It has the veneer of kindness about it, but it does two deeply alarming things. First, it passes the cognitive buck: 'Here's a problem, you handle it.' Second, by not stating your preferences, it invites the others to simulate or imagine them. And as we have seen, the simulation of the minds of others is one of the biggest computational challenges a mind (or machine) can ever face.”
― Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

“All media work us over completely.”
― Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage

“It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“With every passing time, technology moves one step forward.”
― Santosh Kalwar

“We are all vessels of profound possibilities.

When we learn to accept we're not the creator, but simply a conduit of knowledge...

Then we can create.”
― Henry Joseph-Grant

“The past can be accurately analyzed, but the future requires in-depth planning, careful preparation, and the ability to remain flexible”
― Siddhartha Paul Tiwari, The impact of new technologies on society: a blueprint for the future

“Don't just think "mobile first". Think "search first", and invest in instrumenting search metrics on your website and within your product to see what users are looking for and what they are not able to find.”
― Alistair Croll, Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster

“What is polarity? The measurement of gravity What is purity? The measurement of light
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Finite = NotFalse/IsTrue % Infinite; Rectangular = Triangle/Square % Circular; Ratio = Pyquad % Sequence;
ASCII = Hexagonals % Decimals;
Prismatics = Polarity % Purity;
Music = Octave % LikeHymn;
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e.g. It's IF
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Only The Penitent Man Shall Pass
" - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”
― Jonathan R. Mckinney

“We’re all busy, all the time.' He’s raising his voice. 'People think it’s all [A.I.'d] now and I sit in my workspace all day reading books and jerking off but it all just makes more work. Everything that was meant to lighten the load makes more work, it just makes more shit for you to deal with.”
― Eddie Robson, Drunk on All Your Strange New Words

“Totalitarianism is the belief that human intellect can be the guiding principle in life and society. It aims to create a utopian, artificial society led by technocrats or experts who, based on their technical knowledge, will ensure that the machine of society runs flawlessly. In this view, the individual is completely subordinated to being a cog in the machine of society.”
― Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism

“Certain unflattering truths: I had felt unassailable behind the walls of power. Society was shifting, and I felt safer inside the empire, inside the machine. It was preferable to be on the side that did the watching than on the side being watched.”
― Anna Wiener, Uncanny Valley

“We're losing money for every unit but we'll make it up by volume.”
― Uber

“We appear to be in an up swing trend of artificial intelligence creating artificial experts.”
― loren weisman

“How organizations deal with failures or accidents is particularly instructive. Pathological organizations look for a “throat to choke”: Investigations aim to find the person or persons “responsible” for the problem, and then punish or blame them. But in complex adaptive systems, accidents are almost never the fault of a single person who saw clearly what was going to happen and then ran toward it or failed to act to prevent it. Rather, accidents typically emerge from a complex interplay of contributing factors. [...]
Thus, accident investigations that stop at “human error” are not just bad but dangerous. Human error should, instead, be the start of the investigation. Our goal should be to discover how we could improve information flow so that people have better or more timely information, or to find better tools to help prevent catastrophic failures following apparently mundane operations.”
― Nicole Forsgren, Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations

“In the case of half of the schools on my list, the username is 'admin' and the password is 'password', which says to me that a lot of high-school IT people really hate their job.”
― Emily Gale, I Am Out with Lanterns

“There is a magic mafia of tricks that somehow intervenes in the world and possesses people from afar to make this person experience situations that will lead this person to an impasse and will question his own sanity while everything being forced real illusions through manipulating everything and everyone by alien technology that has been discovered by humans but not revealed.”
― Maria Karvouni

“There is a reality mafia that makes a person live for real constantly contradicting realities in physical form so as to render this person sleepless, tired and abused and project a false reality behavior that has occurred from manipulation of everyone and everything, possibly by secret agents or secret undiscovered alien technology.”
― Maria Karvouni

“Living in the modern world is hard enough without having to worry about the safety of your personal information, but you can no longer make the choice to opt-out of understanding the fundamentals of technology and cybersecurity.”
― Lakeidra Smith, Cyber Curiosity: A Beginner's Guide to Cybersecurity

“Unlike other IT industries like software development, which mainly rely on the proper input from the human and the proper output from the machine, cybersecurity was defined, and is constantly evolving, because humans are curious.”
― Lakeidra Smith, Cyber Curiosity: A Beginner's Guide to Cybersecurity

“Only 38% of the organizations that were surveyed by Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) felt that they were taking substantive steps to address the problem of cyberthreats.”
― Lakeidra Smith, Cyber Curiosity: A Beginner's Guide to Cybersecurity

“An information security policy that doesn't consider human behavior and natural disasters isn't one that has the ability to prevent an exploit from being carried out.”
― Lakeidra Smith, Cyber Curiosity: A Beginner's Guide to Cybersecurity

“While, it’s true that there isn’t a way to make yourself bulletproof from cyber attackers. There are many ways that you can minimize your risk of being a victim of a successful attack.”
― Lakeidra Smith, Cyber Curiosity: A Beginner's Guide to Cybersecurity

“The robotic brain is the most advanced piece of technology in the history of the world. Yet everything we say/do/think is built on just two numbers. Zero. And one.”
― Lee Bacon, The Last Human: A Novel

“Progressive Technology has my heart.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“But Science — I use the word for the moment in its restricted meaning —

though it may displace the Humanities, could not and cannot replace them, for it cannot provide us with any clear record of how we have developed mentally.

For this we must turn to History, but History not in the sense in which that word is customarily employed as equivalent merely to Political History, nor even in the wider sense of Sociological History.

It is the history of mankind as a whole
that we need, the history of civilization, the history of man's thoughts, of man's knowledge, of man's self.”
― Ivor B Hart, Makers of Science: Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy

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― Naxtre

“Users do not care what technologies you use. They only care that a website is fast and accessible. That’s the core of what responsible usage of JavaScript is all about: prioritizing user experience over developer experience.”
― Jeremy Wagner

“Included in the GSM standard for mobile devices was the ability to use the mobile network's control channel (the parhway that controls the call but doesn't carry the call itself) to send short alphanumeric messages. It was envisioned principally as a means for one-way communication from the company to the subscriber (such as "your bill is due"). That changed when the functionality was discovered by Norwegian teenagers in the late 1980s.”
― Tom Wheeler, From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future

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“Tech is supposed to help us host life, not hold us hostage.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Divine Refugee