Science & Technology Metaphors, Analogies and Similes
Man is the best computer we can put on a spacecraft, and the only one mass-produced by unskilled labour.
Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.
I'm all in favour of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with computers.
His Mercedes-Benz sounded like dead leaves falling.
The queue for tickets helixed like DNA cloning itself.
Science is an edged tool which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
Ideas streaked and collided inside Reg's head like sub-atomic particles; his ideas, like electrons, could never be identified without specialist lab equipment.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Intuition in science is like the eye that sees everything, other than itself.
In the e-mail, I realized it was important not to over-reveal, so my keyboard became heatwave sand under a child's bare feet.
Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Google before you Tweet is the new think before you speak.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
When writing software, never tolerate bugs; Marie Curie's notebooks, even today, a century on, are still carcinogenic.
Whenever you take any electron technology ( such as a computer or mobile ) beyond the beginner stage, it quickly grafts on as a part of you like a third leg or extra pair of arms.
Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history.
As gullible as the science of cosmetic ads.
The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors.
Keyboards will be as much use to people in the future as when we were taught school calculations with slide rules.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
The question of whether computers can think is the same as whether submarines can swim.
The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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