Technology quotes

“- Q: It looks like a watch, but it's really a laser. It keeps perfect time.
- James Bond: But, for how long?
- Q: At least your lifetime.”
Alec McCowen - Q
Sir Sean Connery - James Bond

“- Ross Webster: What will it do?
- Gus Gorman: Anything I tell it.
- Ross Webster: What will it do for me?
- Gus Gorman: For you, it will do anything you tell me to tell it to do for you.”

Robert Vaughn - Ross Webster
Richard Pryor - Gus Gorman

“The WOPR spends all it's time thinking about World War III. Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, it plays an endless series of WarGames using all available information on the state of the world. The WOPR has already fought World War III as a game time and time again. It estimates Soviet responses to our responses to their responses and so...” (continue)(continue reading)
Irving Metzman - Richter

“With the ability to reproduce art, it is available to the masses. No one needs to own a Van Gogh original, they can paint their own. Van Gogh in a box, ladies! The newest form of mass-distributed art; paint by numbers.”

Julia Roberts - Katherine Ann Watson

“- Ralph, Clean Room Technician: The chips are a little sensitive to EMP.
- Irwin Wayfair: EMP?
- Ralph, Clean Room Technician: Electomagnetic Pulse. As in the kind generated by the detonation of a nuclear device? I doubt that the toy industry has become quite that competitive.”
Robert Picardo - Ralph, Clean Room Technician
David Cross - Irwin Wayfair

“- Bartender Red: Your life could be a whole lot simpler if you could learn to operate a VCR.
- Luther Whitney: Truer words were never spoken.”
Mark Margolis - Red Brandsford
Clint Eastwood - Luther Whitney

“In the old days, we actually had to tap a wire into your phone line. Now with calls bouncing off satellites, they snatch'em right out of the air.”
Gabriel Byrne - Brill

“- Seymour Parrish: Nikon... that's a really nice camera.
- Nina Yorkin: Really? Because Bill keeps trying to get me to go digital and...
- Seymour Parrish: Oh no, don't do that! I'd... I'd be out of a job.”

Robin Williams - Seymour Parrish
Connie Nielsen - Nina Yorkin

“- Evil: God isn't interested in technology. He cares nothing for the microchip or the silicon revolution. Look how he spends his time, forty-three species of parrots! Nipples for men!
- Robert: Slugs.
- Evil: Slugs! He created slugs! They can't hear. They can't speak. They can't operate machinery. Are we not in the hands of a lunatic?”
David Warner - Evil
Derek Deadman - Robert

“This is amazing. Not just amazing, it's historic. It should be taught in all the history books. Hung and framed in the National Gallery or something, because this is the instant of creation of one of the greatest fortunes in the history of the world.”

John DiMaggio - Steve Ballmer

“The last modern thing I liked was the miniskirt. With technology now, nobody understands it... and that's the simple fact of the situation.”
Henry Jones - Simms

“Look! They're coming this way: the Future on the march. I curse you, Volt, Watt and Amp!”

Ian Bannen - Grandfather George

“Violence and technology... not good bedfellows!”
Richard Schiff - Eddie Carr

“I wouldn't trust this overgrown pile of microchips any further than I can throw it.”
Barry Corbin - General Beringer

“Technologically speaking, the world's out of hand. Take the VCR. The whole idea of a VCR is that it makes it possible for you to tape what's on television while you're out of the house. But the whole point of being out of the house is so you can miss what's on television. Radio. Now there's a medium I can get behind.”
Greg Kinnear - Frank Navasky

“- Grandpa Fred: Hey, hey, hey. Can you work a TV camera?
- Mr. Katsuji: Work a camera? I am the camera.”
Robert Prosky - Grandpa Fred
Gedde Watanabe - Mr. Katsuji

“- Johnny Mnemonic: The Black Shakes. What causes it?
- Spider: What causes it? This causes it! This causes it! Information overload! All the electronics around you poisoning the airwaves. Technological fucking civilization. But we still have all this shit, because we can't live without it.”
Keanu Reeves - Johnny Mnemonic
Henry Rollins - Spider

“- Maxwell Kane: You're supposed to give him a new body! Stop, you idiots! He's supposed to get a biogenetic body! He was tested, and measured! He told me he'd be the first!
- Gwen Dillon: Kevin knew he wasn't going to live very long. He knew it was a matter of time. You see? What happened was, his heart just got too big for his body.”

Elden Henson - Maxwell Kane
Sharon Stone - Gwen Dillon

“I'm not against technology, doctor. I'm against the men who deify it at the expense of human truth.”
Matthew McConaughey - Palmer Joss