Technology
- Covert listening device, or bug, commonly used in espionage and in police investigations
- Nickname for various models of the Volkswagen Beetle automobile
- Computer bug, often divided into:
- Software bug, a software defect
- Hardware bug, a defect in hardware, often with close affinity to software
- Web bug, a technique to track who has read a web page or e-mail
- Sandlin Bug, a glider (sailplane) design
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power ... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“Primitive peoples tried to annul death by portraying the human body—we do it by finding substitutes for the human body. Technology instead of mysticism!”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)