Top 1200 Old Technology Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities.

Everyone is trying to say, 'This is Gen Y; we're not an old company. We're not doing old content.'

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the most essential things.

I want to work endlessly and tirelessly until I'm an old, old lady.

I became deaf when I was 18 months old. And I learned to sign when I was 5 years old.

The solution was eventually found by Johannes Gutenberg, who made the breakthrough that finally established printing as the communication technology of the future. Similar ideas may have been under development around the same time in Prague and Haarlem. But in business, the key question is not about who else is in the race, it's about who gets there first. Johannes Gutenberg was the first to make the new technology work, ensuring his place in any history of the human race.

Nothing we do in this great capital can change the fact that factories or information can flash across the world, that people can move money around in the blink of an eye... Nothing can change the fact that technology can be adopted, once created, by people all across the world and then rapidly adapted in new and different ways by people who have a little different take on the way that technology works.

My hobby is old 4x4's, you know, old Blazers and Broncos and stuff.

Nobody is ever too old to dream. And dreams never grow old.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

An old belief is like an old shoe. We so value its comfort that we fail to notice the hole in it.

I love technology. Matches, to light a fire is really high tech. The wheel is REALLY one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that I am an ignoramus about technology. I once looked for the 'ON' button on the computer and came to find out it was on the back. Then I thought, anyone who would put the 'on' switch on the back, where you can't find it, doesn't do any good for my psyche. The one time I did get the computer on, I couldn't turn the damn thing off!

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.

Spring was coming back with the old promise, demanding the old sacrifice.

Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.

I've told everyone that I grew old on 'Hee Haw,' but I could've grown old without it.

I'm waiting to get old - I think old guys with tattoos look good.

Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

Besides, old ladies are always right. That's how they get to be so old. It's one of those things.

You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old.

There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult periods of life, rather than one of the most satisfying - which it should be. Tye danger of old age is that we may start acting old.

I love old gardens best- tired old garden that rest in the sun.

The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism.

I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

I've been a 90-year-old man since I was 12 years old.

The only game I like to play is "Old Maid", providing she's not too old

I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

Dropkicks are old moves, but I wanted to make a new version of an old move.

You're old when you're old. Why should you be limited by someone else's expectations?

old emotions like old families have intermarried and have many connections.

Better is old wine than new, and old friends like-wise.

Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?

The only people who grow old were born old to begin with.

I know a lot more old drunks than old doctors.

Though I've turned 21, I don't drink. I'm an old hag now. I'm just an old fart.

Old sciences are unraveled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

How do you tell your mother that you feel you're getting... old? If I'm... old, then what is she?

Some possessions are like old friends, and you never want to abandon an old friend.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

They changed the floor back to old school. They changed the uniform back to old school. Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

Historically, the idea that you take something novel and you break it has been seen as the ultimate rejection of Enlightenment values, of progress, of civilization - because how could you possibly move forward if you break technology? I think that that misses the point, that if you introduce any kind of technology, what you're introducing is a new way of living and the consequences of that new way of living for people who were enmeshed in a different way of living need to be thought through.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness! It is so silly! Old age has nothing whatever to do with all that. The right old age means strength and beauty and mirth and courage and clear eyes and strong painless limbs.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts

I'm an old newspaper-man myself, but I quit because I found there was no money in old newspapers.

I think old people should just be old and go away.

I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.

If you try to hold onto the old trends, then you'll look old.

How old are you? I asked her. "Old enough to know better." she said.

The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

The reason old man use Viagra is not that they are impotent. It's that old women are so very ugly.

They think I'm too old to cause trouble. Old age is a powerful disguise.

If we're ever going to get the world back on a natural footing, back in tune with natural rhythyms, if we're going to nurture the Earth and protect it and have fun with it and learn from it - which is what mothers do with their children - then we've got to put technology (an aggressive masculine system) in its proper place, which is that of a tool to be used sparingly, joyfully, gently and only in the fullest cooperation with nature. Nature must govern technology, not the other way around.