Outdated Tech Quotes

But there's so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That's where we are. We don't get our hair caught in it, but that's the level of primitiveness of where we are. We're in 1908.

Remember the band, Flock of Seagulls? They had their van stolen. I was like, They still have a van?

But interestingly Star City's technology is all 1970s - still. In fact, it's alarming because you think, "You're not going to send someone up into space in something that old, are you?" But it works and it always has worked and it doesn't fail and it's incredibly reliable.

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in 'Gold and a Pager,' we're not talking about what was current - pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them.

I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it.

Olympic wrestling is like using an old Nokia phone; it's fairly basic.

The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years.

I still use my iPod all the time.

You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.