Great Geek Manual

A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.

- Andrew Grove

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.

- David Brower

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage.

- Mike Trout

Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.

- John Tudor

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

- Steve Ballmer

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

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

- Jon Stewart

As our brain is plastic and remoulds itself in accordance to our daily activities, prolonged computer use can have a profound effect on the way we think, feel and behave. We can learn to react more quickly to visual stimuli and improve many forms of attention. We develop a better ability to sift through large amounts of information rapidly and decide what’s important and what isn’t. In this way, we adapt to cope with the massive amounts of information appearing and disappearing on our mental…

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

- Leonard Bernstein