Technology quotes

“I'm technologically an imbecile. But I do use the camera phone!”
Amanda Peet

“Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation.”
James Coburn

“Once you design something to learn, you can't put stipulations on what it learns! Learn this, but don't learn that? He could learn from Adolf Hitler, he could learn from Captain Kangaroo! It's all the same to him!”
Richard Roxburgh - Dr. Keith Orbit

“- Jobe Smith: I realized that nothing we've been doing is new. We haven't been tapping into new areas of the brain - we've just been awakening the most ancient. This technology is simply a route to powers that conjurers and alchemists used centuries ago. The human race lost that knowledge and now I'm reclaiming it through virtual reality.
- Dr....” (continue)(continue reading)
Jeff Fahey - Jobe Smith
Pierce Brosnan - Dr. Lawrence Angelo

“- Rachael: It seems you feel our work is not a benefit to the public.
- Rick Deckard: Replicants are like any other machine, they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.”
Sean Young - Rachael
Harrison Ford - Rick Deckard

“As you can see, it's a highly advanced state of the art equipment and makes a man into a better man, a super, a great athlete into super athlete by harnessing all his strength most of the world is ignorant to body chemistry we wish to educate your country.”

Michael Pataki - Nicoli Koloff

“The government's been in bed with the entire telecommunications industry since the forties. They've infected everything. They get into your bank statements, computer files, email, listen to your phone calls... Every wire, every airwave. The more technology used, the easier it is for them to keep tabs on you. It's a brave new world out there. At...” (continue)(continue reading)
Gabriel Byrne - Brill

“Digital makes things feel more real.”
Michael Mann

“The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.”
John Lasseter

“I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused.”
Richard Donner

“- Dr Hibbert: We can't fix your heart, but thanks to modern technology we can tell you exactly how damaged it is!
- Homer Simpson: What an age we live in!”
Harry Shearer - Dr Hibbert
Dan Castellaneta - Homer Simpson

“- Frank Navasky: Name me one thing, one, that we've gained from technology.
- Kathleen Kelly: Electricity.
- Frank Navasky: That's one.
[points to Kathleen Kelly's computer]
- Frank Navasky: You think this machine is your friend, but it's not.”
Greg Kinnear - Frank Navasky
Meg Ryan - Kathleen Kelly

“Technology. That's always been your Achilles heel in this part of the world. Don't worry, it'll only last for fifteen minutes.”

Jeff Bridges - Obadiah Stane

“- John Connor: The T-X, can you find a way to destroy it?
- Terminator: Unlikely. I'm an obsolete design.”
Nick Stahl - John Connor
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Terminator

“Never underestimate the power of computers.”
Robert Vaughn - Ross Webster

“- Wolff: The communicator is out again.
- Chalmers: That's because we need a new auto-correlation spectometer... not to mention a new drive systems regulator, a freon activator and, of course, a complete scan systems overhaul.”

Peter Strauss - Wolff
Andrea Marcovicci - Chalmers

“- Louis 'Lightning' Conlon: You got an iPad?
- Henry 'Razor' Sharp: Nah, I got a regular couch.”
Alan Arkin - Louis 'Lightning' Conlon
Sylvester Stallone - Henry 'Razor' Sharp

“With modern medical technology I could probably give a glass of water all the vital signs necessary to be legally alive. And I can end his life any time I want just by turning a knob.”
James Spader - Dr. Werner Ernst

“I can't keep going like this. The insemination, the child. It's like we're trying to put a Band-Aid on something that's just been bled dry.”
Sean Penn - Paul Rivers

“BlackBerries, desk organizers. Electronic footprints of where your man has been and with whom. Under the right circumstances, they could be a girl's best friend.”
Kevin Sussman - Ira

“You say this gadget of yours is for ordinary people. What on earth would ordinary people want with computers?”

“Everything is different, but the same... things are more moderner than before... bigger, and yet smaller... it's computers... San Dimas High School football rules.”
William Robbins - Ox Robbins

“- Holly McClane: Honey, it's the '90s, remember? Microchips, microwaves, faxes, air phones.
- John McClane: Hey, well, as far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.”
Bonnie Bedelia - Holly McClane
Bruce Willis - John McClane

“I got you the big screen TV, deluxe karaoke machine, and THX quality sound that would make George Lucas cream in his pants!”
Jim Carrey - The Cable Guy

“I like to be reminded this city survives because of these machines. These machines keep us alive, while other machines are coming to kill us. Interesting, isn't it? The power to give life, and the power to end it.”
Anthony Zerbe - Councillor Hamann