Quotes and Sayings about Technology
"What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime."
- Frank Abagnale
(Related: Technology, Crime, Today, Youth)
"Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men."
- Theodor Adorno
(Related: Men, Technology)
"And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years."
- Gianni Agnelli
(Related: Technology, Possibility, Buying, Production, Years)
"All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance."
- Gianni Agnelli
(Related: Technology, War, Production, states, United)
"If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet."
- Charles M. Allen
(Related: Technology, Hell, Help, Race)
"The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too."
- Paul Allen
(Related: Science, Technology, Feeling, Museums)
"The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology."
- Eric Allman
(Related: Technology, Law, Property)
"This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem."
- Eric Allman
(Related: Technology, People, First, Want)
"My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
- Sidney Altman
(Related: Technology, Events, Intention, Physics, Study, University)
"Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people."
- Christiane Amanpour
(Related: Money, Technology, Time, Talent, People)
"The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists."
- Barbara Amiel
(Related: Technology, Time, People, Military, Tourists)
"And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years."
- Chris Anderson
(Related: Change, Technology, First, Now, Radical, Years)
"And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn."
- Chris Anderson
(Related: Technology, Sense)
"The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration."
- Chris Anderson
(Related: Technology, Successful, First, Will)
"A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that."
- Laurie Anderson
(Related: Power, Work, Technology, states, United)
"The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds."
- Tadao Ando
(Related: Technology, Creativity, Computer)
"Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle."
- Marc Andreessen
(Related: Technology, Adoption)
"While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man."
- Maya Angelou
(Related: Technology, Quality, Humanity, Rest, World)
"I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology."
- Francesca Annis
(Related: Technology)
"For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful - the change of technology - but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful."
- Michael Apted
(Related: Change, Technology, Film)
"Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology."
- Avi Arad
(Related: Movies, Technology, People, Audiences, Today, Years)
"If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it."
- Neil Armstrong
(Related: Technology, Will)
"Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion."
- Timothy Garton Ash
(Related: History, Technology, War, Blood, Information, Media, Military, Opinion, World)
"The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies."
- Ibrahim Babangida
(Related: Technology, Books, Humanity, Information, Reason, Word)
"Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk."
- Spencer Bachus
(Related: Technology, Risk, Today)
"No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions."
- David Baker
(Related: Technology, Education, Cure, Customer, Effort, Legislation, Will)
"Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists."
- Mitchell Baker
(Related: Technology, People, Artists)
"Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest."
- Emily Greene Balch
(Related: Technology, Time, Rest)
"Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology."
- Emily Greene Balch
(Related: Technology, Age, Being, Revolution)
"Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute."
- J. G. Ballard
(Related: Science, Technology)
"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential."
- Steve Ballmer
(Related: Technology, People, Information, Potential, Sense, Want)
"I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them."
- Jim Balsillie
(Related: Technology, People)
"I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born."
- David Baltimore
(Related: Technology, Danger, Running)
"And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living."
- Toni Cade Bambara
(Related: Technology, Religion, Living)
"Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state."
- Iain Banks
(Related: Technology, Society, Possibilities, State)
"I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy."
- Javier Bardem
(Related: Technology, Empathy, First, Living, May, World)
"Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Technology, Being, Internet, Now)
"In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners."
- Jim Barksdale
(Related: Business, Technology, People, Internet, Talk)
"The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Technology, Committee, Research, Weapons)
"The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Technology, Effort, Military)
"U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Technology, Nation, Secrets)
"The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Government, Technology, Policy, Information)
"But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason."
- Charles Foster Bass
(Related: Technology, Community, Fact, Incompetence, May, Treason)
"I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too."
- Ulrich Beck
(Related: Life, Technology, Ecology, Risk)
"Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination."
- Daniel Bell
(Related: Imagination, Art, Technology, Exercise)
"While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world."
- Carol Bellamy
(Related: Technology, Countries, Revolution, World)
"That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry."
- Paul Berg
(Related: Technology, Work)
"As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet."
- Judy Biggert
(Related: Change, Technology, Children, Grandparents, Internet, Strangers, Talk)
"Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people."
- Matt Blunt
(Related: Government, Technology, People)
"In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age."
- Matt Blunt
(Related: Age, Government, Technology, Economy, Internet, State)
"The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand."
- Sherwood Boehlert
(Related: Technology, Economy, Oil)
"So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction."
- David Bohm
(Related: Technology, Power, Destruction, Race, Wonder)
"During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts."
- David Bohm
(Related: Technology, Travel, Communication, Network, Past, World)
"Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true."
- Niels Bohr
(Related: Technology, Truth, Will, Years)
"Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads."
- David Boies
(Related: Technology, Work, People)
"Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect."
- Brigitte Boisselier
(Related: Technology, Time, Effect)
"Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement."
- Christopher Bond
(Related: Health, Life, Technology, Growth, Agriculture, Care, Defense, Economy, Future, Job, Will)
"The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors."
- Kit Bond
(Related: Technology, Defense, Future)
"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."
- Daniel J. Boorstin
(Related: Technology, Knowledge, Fun, Information)
"Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal."
- Norman Borlaug
(Related: Technology, Numbers, Past, Years)
"We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American."
- Barbara Boxer
(Related: Medical, Technology, American, Doctors, Hospitals, World)
"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
- Omar N. Bradley
(Related: Technology, Wisdom, May, Prudence)
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."
- Stewart Brand
(Related: Technology, Road)
"Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology."
- David Bromstad
(Related: Design, Technology)
"There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity."
- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
(Related: Technology, Development, Management, Improvement, Order, Productivity, Promises, Simplicity)
"There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium."
- Bob Brown
(Related: Technology)
"Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world."
- Gordon Brown
(Related: Change, Power, Technology, Opportunity, Ability, Community, First, Sense, World)
"Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!"
- Jerry Brown
(Related: Technology, Work, Family, Opportunity, America, Destiny, Guidance, Leisure, Sense, Will)
"I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology."
- Gavin Bryars
(Related: Technology, Friends, Hollywood, Understanding)
"I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television."
- Jimmy Buffett
(Related: Technology, Age, Hate, Television)
"As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones."
- Steve Buyer
(Related: Technology, Thought, Fact, Future, Today, Voice, Wrong)
"We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both."
- John Callahan
(Related: Technology, Beach, Libraries, Now, Old, Pressure, Right)
"We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people."
- Stephen Cambone
(Related: Technology, People, Investment, Now, Office, Years)
"I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things."
- James Cameron
(Related: Love, Technology, Father, Engineering, Interest, Respect, Trying)
"The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job."
- John Cameron
(Related: Medical, Technology, Growth, Job, Now, Physics, Today, Training)
"I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year."
- Russ Carnahan
(Related: Health, Technology, Care, Information, Potential, states, Support, Today, United)
"More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation."
- Stephen Carter
(Related: Technology, Growth, Competition, Environment, Years)
"Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated."
- Steve Case
(Related: Technology, Building, World)
"Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel."
- Brian Celio
(Related: Technology, Divorce)
"In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology."
- Vinton Cerf
(Related: Technology, Defense, Network, Passion, Project, Want)
"I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects."
- Jack L. Chalker
(Related: History, Science, Technology, Health, College, Fiction, School)
"Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality."
- Jackie Chan
(Related: Technology, Cinema, Culture, Harm, Losing, Originality)
"I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology."
- Stockard Channing
(Related: Technology, Time, Women, People)
"We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us."
- Tracy Chapman
(Related: Technology, Effect, Help, Media)
"We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will."
- Michael Chertoff
(Related: Technology, People, Force, May, Right, Will)
"Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM."
- Jay Chiat
(Related: Money, Technology, Information)
"Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology."
- Jay Chiat
(Related: Technology, Fear, Being, Fashion)
"But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer."
- Jay Chiat
(Related: Technology, Advertising, Will)
"Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products."
- Jay Chiat
(Related: Technology, Opportunity, Clients, Numbers, Software)
"There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives."
- Tom Clancy
(Related: Technology, Time, People, Tools)
"There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs."
- Tom Clancy
(Related: Technology, Country)
"The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that."
- Tom Clancy
(Related: Technology, Today)
"People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?"
- Tom Clancy
(Related: Technology, People, Knowledge, Information, Result, Today)
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
- Arthur C. Clarke
(Related: Technology, Magic)
"In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average."
- William J. Clinton
(Related: Technology, Knowledge, Economy, Example, Information, Jobs, Today)
"I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy."
- Bram Cohen
(Related: Technology, Drugs, Free speech, Information, Privacy)
"Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail."
- Bram Cohen
(Related: Technology, Goals, Evil, Help, Laws, Succeed)
"The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite."
- James Collins
(Related: History, Technology)
"The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept."
- James Collins
(Related: Technology, Want)
"It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance."
- Barry Commoner
(Related: Technology, Inheritance, Judgment, Laws, Myth, Production)
"What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology."
- Barry Commoner
(Related: Technology, War, Now, Post, Production)
"If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole."
- Arthur Holly Compton
(Related: Science, Society, Technology)
"Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Technology, Present)
"Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Technology, Present)
"Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water."
- Jim Costa
(Related: Technology, Quality, Plants, Water)
"Technology favors horrible people."
- Doug Coupland
(Related: Technology, People, Favors)
"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field."
- Stephen Covey
(Related: Technology, People, Books, Communication, Fact, Information, Television)
"I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information."
- Jim Cramer
(Related: Technology, People, Information)
"Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down."
- Michael Crichton
(Related: Technology, Reality, Will)
"Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content."
- Steve Crocker
(Related: Technology, Control, Content, Voice)
"Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: Technology, Expression, Separation, Universe, Will)
"I see technology as being an extension of the human body."
- David Cronenberg
(Related: Technology, Being, Body)
"I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing."
- Norm Crosby
(Related: Technology, First, Hearing, Help, Options, Washington)
"Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe."
- Richard Curtis
(Related: Technology, Quality, Risk)
"You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars."
- James Daly
(Related: Technology, Stars)
"When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste."
- Rick Danko
(Related: Technology, First, Waste)
"I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes."
- Paula Danziger
(Related: Technology, Change, Disagreements, Kids, Parents, Rules, Years)
"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools."
- Mike Davidson
(Related: Computers, Technology, Children, Hardware, School, Schools)
"You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website."
- Dave Davies
(Related: Technology, Today)
"We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space."
- Richard Dawkins
(Related: Technology, Culture, Deep, May, Space)
"As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive."
- Nathan Deal
(Related: Technology, Doctors, Want)
"Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right."
- Nathan Deal
(Related: Technology, Knowledge, Financial, May, Motive, Right, Scientists)
"The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world."
- Jeffery Deaver
(Related: Technology, Law, Rest, World)
"There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it."
- Don DeLillo
(Related: Technology, People, Fear, Connection, Sense)
"In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic."
- Don DeLillo
(Related: Technology)
"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships."
- Michael Dell
(Related: Business, Technology, Customer, Relationships)
"Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology."
- Catherine Deneuve
(Related: Art, Technology, Balance, Content, Film)
"Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes."
- David Deutsch
(Related: Technology, Nature, Collaboration, First, Will)
"Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today."
- Jared Diamond
(Related: Technology, Power, Causes, Problems, Today, Tomorrow)
"Technology has to be invented or adopted."
- Jared Diamond
(Related: Technology)
"I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology."
- Whitfield Diffie
(Related: Technology, Importance, Key, Public)
"People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age."
- John Doerr
(Related: Age, Technology, People, Community, Meaning)
"From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened."
- Thomas Dolby
(Related: Technology, Quality, Reason)
"So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers."
- Thomas Dolby
(Related: Computers, Music, Technology)
"All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things."
- Heather Donahue
(Related: Technology, Connection)
"If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently."
- Heather Donahue
(Related: Technology, Being, Security)
"Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us."
- Richard Dooling
(Related: Technology, Now, Suspicion)
"Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management."
- John Doolittle
(Related: Medical, Technology, Management, Information)
"My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race."
- K. Eric Drexler
(Related: Technology, Attention, Concern, Public, Race)
"Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there."
- K. Eric Drexler
(Related: Ability, Tools, Will)
"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough."
- K. Eric Drexler
(Related: Thinking, Today, Understanding, Will)
"But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth."
- K. Eric Drexler
(Related: Science, Work, Technology, Engineering, Variety)
"Any powerful technology can be abused."
- K. Eric Drexler
(Related: Technology)
"Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise."
- K. Eric Drexler
(Related: Technology, Engineering, Machines, Will)
"The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications."
- Peter Drucker
(Related: Technology, Information, Internet)
"If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?"
- Matt Drudge
(Related: Technology, Freedom, Liberty, Want)
"I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science."
- Ann Druyan
(Related: Science, Technology, Civilization, Culture, Thinking)
"Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content."
- John Dykstra
(Related: Technology, Content, Limitations)
"Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect."
- Esther Dyson
(Related: Technology, World)
"Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first."
- Esther Dyson
(Related: Technology, Common sense, First)
"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences."
- Freeman Dyson
(Related: Life, Technology, Mother, God, Gifts)
"I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window."
- John Eaton
(Related: Technology, Idea, Enemies)
"I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting."
- Bernie Ebbers
(Related: Finance, Technology, Day)
"I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting."
- Bernie Ebbers
(Related: Technology, Engineering)
"We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff."
- Monica Edwards
(Related: Age, Technology, Time, Now, Old)
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein
(Related: Technology, Humanity, Obvious)
"Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept."
- Jesse Eisenberg
(Related: Society, Technology, Will)
"We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new."
- Michael Eisner
(Related: Technology, Change, Entertainment, Hollywood, Nothing)
"Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology."
- Mohamed ElBaradei
(Related: Technology, Countries, First, Israel, Now)
"It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create."
- Joe Elliott
(Related: Technology, Play, Production)
"Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity."
- Jacques Ellul
(Related: Technology, Civilization, Efficiency, Force, Necessity, Order)
"I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe."
- Robert Englund
(Related: Technology, Example, Horror)
"I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement."
- Brian Eno
(Related: Technology, People, Amusement, Fun, Machines)
"Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today."
- Arthur Erickson
(Related: Time, Technology, Civilization, Space, Today)
"Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich."
- Richard Ernst
(Related: Technology, Enthusiasm, Expectations, Famous, School, Study)
"There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it."
- Peter Erskine
(Related: Technology)
"We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery."
- Donald Evans
(Related: Education, Technology, Development, Discovery, Economy, Innovation, Research, World)
"The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport."
- Laurent Fabius
(Related: Technology, Countries, Exercise, Revolution, Information, Pressure, Wages, Weight)
"For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date."
- Laurent Fabius
(Related: Technology, Time, Nations, Wages)
"Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology."
- Luc Ferrari
(Related: Music, Technology, Ideas)
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled."
- Richard P. Feynman
(Related: Nature, Technology, Successful, Public, Reality)
"Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it."
- Suzanne Fields
(Related: Death, Life, Technology, Debate, End)
"Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system."
- Carly Fiorina
(Related: Technology, Business, People, Solution)
"As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families."
- Mike Fitzpatrick
(Related: Technology, Father, Children)
"Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that."
- John Frankenheimer
(Related: Technology, Fact, Film, Key, Trying)
"As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor."
- Brendan Fraser
(Related: Technology, Actor)
"We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets."
- Thomas Friedman
(Related: Technology, Balance, Lawyers)
"Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Experience, Technology, World)
"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it."
- Max Frisch
(Related: Experience, Technology, World)
"America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world."
- Bill Frist
(Related: Health, Medical, Technology, America, Care, Country, Doctors, Hospitals, Nurses, Reason, World)
"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
(Related: Technology, Humanity, Right, Wrong)
"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday."
- Dennis Gabor
(Related: Technology, Needs, Problems, Today, Wishes, Yesterday)
"This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about."
- Adolf Galland
(Related: Change, Technology)
"Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada."
- Marc Garneau
(Related: Technology, Canada, Communication, Country, Space)
"Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways."
- Jesse James Garrett
(Related: Technology, Right)
"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."
- Bill Gates
(Related: Business, Technology, Information, Talk, Talking)
"Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
- Bill Gates
(Related: Technology, Kids)
"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
- Bill Gates
(Related: Business, Technology, Efficiency, First, Inefficiency, Will)
"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG."
- Bill Gates
(Related: Technology, Computer, Driving)
"This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits."
- Lou Gerstner
(Related: Technology, Work, Opportunity)
"The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel."
- John Glenn
(Related: Education, Technology, Travel, Science, Help, Space, Will)
"The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers."
- Dan Glickman
(Related: Technology, Entertainment)
"Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies."
- Dan Glickman
(Related: Movies, Technology, People)
"Life is about family and technology."
- Mark Goddard
(Related: Family, Life, Technology)
"Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements."
- Virgil Goode
(Related: Technology, Development, Country, Energy, states, United)
"I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go."
- Mike Gordon
(Related: Technology, Music, Direction, Want)
"As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis."
- Tipper Gore
(Related: Technology, Photography, Post)
"Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap."
- Bob Graham
(Related: Technology, Negative, Ability, Drilling, Feet, Oil, Safety, Today)
"Regardless what technology is, I like analog too."
- Lou Gramm
(Related: Technology)
"For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes."
- Hugh Grant
(Related: Technology, Fear, Being, Controversy, First)
"Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now."
- Daniel Greenberg
(Related: Technology, Now, Schools, Will)
"So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled."
- Daniel Greenberg
(Related: Technology, Regret, Schools)
"Educators are still spending way too much time trying to control what kids learn, bending the content to their own purposes, hoping beyond hope to change - by using technology - but not change too much."
- Daniel Greenberg
(Related: Change, Technology, Time, Control, Hope, Content, Kids, Trying)
"But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before."
- Bill Griffith
(Related: Technology, Life, Character, Computer, Now, Style)
"If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic."
- Ursula K. Le Guin
(Related: Science, Technology, Fiction, Myth, Mythology)
"In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope."
- James Gunn
(Related: Change, Nature, Science, Technology, People, Character, Environment, Fiction, Present, Universe, Want)
"Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style."
- Jurgen Habermas
(Related: War, Technology, Action, Old, Police, State, Style)
"Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal."
- Tom Hanks
(Related: Technology)
"We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers."
- Daryl Hannah
(Related: Car, Technology, Conservation, Efficiency)
"Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil."
- Daryl Hannah
(Related: Technology, People, Fact, Oil, Years)
"I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance."
- Jerry Harrison
(Related: Music, Technology, Performance, Now)
"CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people."
- John Harrison
(Related: Technology, People, Mission)
"You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8."
- Anne Hathaway
(Related: Technology, Singing)
"People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies."
- Paul Hawken
(Related: Technology, Age, People, Information, Will)
"I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed."
- John Hench
(Related: Technology, Time, Difficulty, Space, Waiting, Years)
"Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are."
- Werner Herzog
(Related: Dreams, Technology, Years)
"It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch."
- Thor Heyerdahl
(Related: Happiness, Society, Technology, People, Jungle, Living, Man, Miracles)
"Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R."
- Christopher Hitchens
(Related: Technology, Defense, Order)
"For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal."
- Tim Holden
(Related: Government, Technology, Energy, states, Years)
"Accordingly, it is our task to ensure that the Government formulates policies that foster the continued development of the IT sector while also providing for citizens' access to technology and opportunity for economic advancement."
- Tim Holden
(Related: Government, Technology, Opportunity, Development)
"A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens."
- Tim Holden
(Related: Success, Technology, Growth, Information, Nation, Productivity, Variety)
"New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else."
- Tom Holt
(Related: Technology, Tomorrow, Ugly)
"Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors."
- Hugh Hopper
(Related: Music, Technology, Moments, Tools)
"Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization."
- Cordell Hull
(Related: Science, Technology, Civilization, Energy, Man, Military)
"My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, The pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc."
- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
(Related: Power, Ideas, Country, Energy, Revolution, Medicine, Sense)
"Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality."
- John Hutton
(Related: Technology, Quality, Disease, Illness, Understanding, Will)
"Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology."
- Miguel de Icaza
(Related: Technology)
"Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future."
- Jay Inslee
(Related: Technology, Future, Jobs)
"With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans."
- Jay Inslee
(Related: Family, Technology, Action, American, Energy, Jobs, Manufacturing, Order, Wage, World)
"We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time."
- Ernest Istook
(Related: Life, Medical, Technology, Time, Sacrifice, Now, Promises, Respect, Years)
"Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal."
- Ernest Istook
(Related: Government, Science, Technology, Development, Goal, Growth, America, Children, Tax, Help, Needs, Parents, Research, Students, St)
"Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media."
- Bruce Jackson
(Related: Technology, Media, Publishing, World)
"I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level."
- Ian Jackson
(Related: Change, Technology, Entertainment)
"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."
- Clive James
(Related: Technology, America, Right, University)
"We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way."
- Al Jarreau
(Related: Technology, Time, Fact, Fanatics)
"With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot."
- Jam Master Jay
(Related: Technology, Right)
"The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day."
- Jam Master Jay
(Related: Technology, Day)
"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it."
- Lyndon B. Johnson
(Related: Technology, Gratitude, Future, Generations, Miracles, Sorrow, World)
"The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule."
- Nick Johnson
(Related: Technology)
"A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages."
- Herman Kahn
(Related: Technology, Now)
"Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?"
- Abdul Kalam
(Related: Technology, Nation, Obsession, Television, Want, Years)
"New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that."
- Dean Kamen
(Related: Technology, Ideas)
"Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do."
- Dean Kamen
(Related: Technology, Future, Want)
"In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important."
- Dean Kamen
(Related: Technology, Fact, Forget, Innovation, Inventions)
"What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together."
- Mitchell Kapor
(Related: Technology, People, Design, World)
"Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering."
- Leon Kass
(Related: Cure, Disease, Promise, Suffering)
"Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects."
- Leon Kass
(Related: Technology, People)
"The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology."
- Jeffrey Katzenberg
(Related: Technology)
"And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue."
- David Kay
(Related: Technology, Destruction, Iraq, Weapons)
"NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity."
- John F. Kerry
(Related: Technology, Economy, Future, Globalization, Job, Jobs, Productivity, Reality, Today, Wage)
"Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go."
- Jack Kilby
(Related: Technology, Project, Years)
"I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper."
- Jack Kilby
(Related: Technology, Will)
"Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before."
- Ron Kind
(Related: Technology, World, Years)
"Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace."
- Ron Kind
(Related: Technology, Creativity, Ability, Driving, Innovation, Workers)
"We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this."
- Lenny Kravitz
(Related: Computers, Technology, Being, Day, Kids)
"What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up."
- Barbara Kruger
(Related: Work, Technology, Production)
"Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never."
- Sanjay Kumar
(Related: Technology, Company, Public, Today)
"So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation."
- Sanjay Kumar
(Related: Technology, Customer, Help, Leading, Solution, Today)
"Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development."
- Aleksander Kwasniewski
(Related: Technology, Development, May)
"Magic, like technology, is a tool."
- Mercedes Lackey
(Related: Technology, Magic)
"Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master."
- Christian Lous Lange
(Related: Technology)
"I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced."
- Robert Lanza
(Related: Technology)
"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."
- John Lasseter
(Related: Art, Technology)
"With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly."
- Geddy Lee
(Related: Technology, Help, Order)
"We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on."
- Tim Berners Lee
(Related: Technology, People, Media)
"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide."
- Max Lerner
(Related: Government, Technology, Suicide, World)
"Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology."
- Arthur Levitt
(Related: Government, Technology, Promises, Result)
"Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry."
- Arthur Levitt
(Related: Business, Technology, Competition, Globalization, Innovation, Today)
"Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist."
- Steven Levy
(Related: Technology, Artist, Computer)
"The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs."
- Joe Lieberman
(Related: Government, Money, People, Economy, Innovation, Jobs, Research, Will)
"I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology."
- Dan Lipinski
(Related: Technology, Work, Leader, Hope, America, Cooperation, Country, Future, World)
"Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film."
- Leonard Maltin
(Related: Technology, Animation, Film)
"The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work."
- Herbie Mann
(Related: Technology, Work, Medicine, Reality, Right, World)
"Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all."
- Ed Markey
(Related: Technology, America, Comfort, Economy, Engineering, Safety, Schools, Scientists)
"We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world."
- Ed Markey
(Related: Technology, World)
"Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one."
- Judith Martin
(Related: Technology, People, Old)
"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."
- Karl Marx
(Related: Technology, Wealth, Production)
"The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected."
- John McKinley
(Related: Business, Technology, People, Right, Support, World)
"We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets."
- John McKinley
(Related: Technology, Work, People, Development, Will)
"Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally."
- John McKinley
(Related: Technology, Passion, Will)
"Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools."
- Brian McKnight
(Related: Technology, Work, Song, Tools)
"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way."
- Marshall McLuhan
(Related: Technology, Environment, First, Man, Order, Word)
"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"
- Marshall McLuhan
(Related: Age, Technology)
"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology."
- Marshall McLuhan
(Related: Technology, Consequences, Result)
"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."
- Marshall McLuhan
(Related: Technology)
"Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools."
- Cathy McMorris
(Related: Science, Technology, America, Engineering, Schools, Today)
"Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun."
- Sid Meier
(Related: Technology, First, Fun, Games)
"Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: People, Idea)
"Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: Computers, Power, Today, Will, World)
"The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: Technology, Laws, Physics)
"We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: Technology, Manufacturing)
"A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: Technology, Time, First, Manufacturing, Problems, Tools, Will)
"If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: Technology, Development, Will)
"If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: Medical, Technology, Quality, Suffering)
"If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: Technology, Strategy)
"If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is."
- Ralph Merkle
(Related: Technology, Potential, Worry)
"Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology."
- Jean-Marie Messier
(Related: Technology, Age, Internet, Will)
"They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought."
- John Mica
(Related: Technology, Time, Thought, Body, Opinion)
"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up."
- Dan Millman
(Related: Technology, Mother, Earth, Internet, Living, Religious, Zeal)
"But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications , targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets."
- David Milne
(Related: Technology, First)
"Some people think technology has the answers."
- Kevin Mitnick
(Related: Technology, People, Answers)
"Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand."
- Issey Miyake
(Related: Work, Computers, Technology)
"Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good."
- Clement Mok
(Related: Design, Technology, Business, Being, Chaos, Order, Sense)
"Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going."
- Dennis Moore
(Related: Technology, Economy, Kids)
"The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals."
- Gordon Moore
(Related: Technology, Leading, School)
"India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology."
- Yoshiro Mori
(Related: Technology, Information)
"Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future."
- Marc Morial
(Related: Technology, People, Future, Games, Planning)
"James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies."
- Joe Morton
(Related: Movies, Technology)
"I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals."
- Mark Mothersbaugh
(Related: Home, Love, Work, Technology, Being)
"We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously."
- Robert Mueller
(Related: Technology, Information, Job, Tools)
"We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Government, Technology, Cooperation, Law)
"The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure."
- Timothy Murphy
(Related: Medical, Technology)
"We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race."
- John Naisbitt
(Related: Technology, Balance, Race, Spiritual, Wonders)
"What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure."
- Janet Napolitano
(Related: Technology)
"As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures."
- Janet Napolitano
(Related: Technology, Help, Machines, Majority, Now)
"All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images."
- Janet Napolitano
(Related: Technology, Public)
"But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor."
- Janet Napolitano
(Related: Technology, Country, Labor, Laws, Nation)
"Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies)."
- Janet Napolitano
(Related: Technology, Body, Christmas, Example, Now, Planning, Right)
"It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit."
- Janet Napolitano
(Related: Technology, Environment, Security)
"Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China."
- Joseph Needham
(Related: Science, Technology, Thought)
"With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless."
- Vince Neil
(Related: Technology, Now, Song, Sound, Will)
"There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century."
- Robert Nelson
(Related: Art, History, Technology, Time, Film)
"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years."
- John von Neumann
(Related: Technology, Computer, Limits, Pretty, Silly, Sound, Years)
"It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great."
- Aaron Neville
(Related: Technology, Experience, People, Play, Sound)
"Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses."
- Arnold Newman
(Related: Technology, Ideas, Photography)
"Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind."
- Bob Ney
(Related: Equality, Technology, People, Knowledge, Opportunity, Belief, Blind, Security)
"They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country."
- Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka
(Related: Technology, Successful, Country, Help, states, United)
"When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense."
- Don Nickles
(Related: Technology, Countries, Sense)
"I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream."
- Lennart Nilsson
(Related: Technology, Dream, Ideas, Computer)
"I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in."
- Donald Norman
(Related: Love, People, Technology)
"What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done."
- Tim O'Reilly
(Related: Technology, Job, Want)
"We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards."
- Bill Owens
(Related: Technology, Doubt, Economy)
"Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities."
- Major Owens
(Related: Technology, Help, Poor, Tools, Will)
"I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology."
- Major Owens
(Related: Science, Technology, Time, Quality, Answers, School, Schools)
"I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years."
- Major Owens
(Related: Technology, Concern, Effort, Nation, Will, Years)
"I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology."
- Major Owens
(Related: Education, Technology, Respect, Will)
"Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools."
- Major Owens
(Related: Education, Technology, Challenge, Public, Schools)
"Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included."
- Major Owens
(Related: Education, Technology, Investment, School)
"We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience."
- Major Owens
(Related: Experience, Technology, End, Students, Will)
"We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere."
- Major Owens
(Related: Technology, Quality, Classroom)
"Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned."
- Major Owens
(Related: Technology, People, Today, Tomorrow, Training, World)
"Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry."
- Michael Oxley
(Related: Technology, Commerce)
"We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity."
- Michael Oxley
(Related: Technology, Growth, Information, Order, Productivity)
"Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence."
- Nam June Paik
(Related: Technology, Body, Existence, Reality, Skin)
"IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments."
- John Patrick
(Related: Leadership, Technology, World)
"And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction."
- Lester B. Pearson
(Related: Peace, Science, Technology, War, Act, Destruction, Result, Tragedy, Will)
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
- Nancy Pelosi
(Related: Technology, Development, Countries, Destruction, Weapons)
"Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars that the President's economic stabilization and job creation initiatives were education and innovation - innovation begins in the classroom - clean energy and climate, addressing the climate issues in an innovative way to keep us number one and competitive in the world with the new technology, and the third, first among equals I may say, is health care, health insurance reform."
- Nancy Pelosi
(Related: Education, Health, Technology, Beginning, Care, Classroom, Climate, Creation, Energy, First, Innovation, Job, May, President, Re)
"The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul."
- Ralph Peters
(Related: Age, Technology, Soul, Paradox, Problems)
"Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be."
- John Phillips
(Related: Technology)
"It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges."
- Abbe Pierre
(Related: Technology, Negative, Humanity)
"I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission."
- John Pistole
(Related: Intelligence, Technology, Focus, Mission, Priorities, Public, Relationships, Support, Traveling, Want)
"The reason we are doing these types of pat downs and using the advanced imagery technology is trying to take the latest intelligence and how we know al Qaeda and affiliates want to hurt us, they want to bring down whether it is passenger air craft or cargo aircraft."
- John Pistole
(Related: Intelligence, Technology, Hurt, Reason, Trying, Want)
"The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat."
- John Pistole
(Related: Technology, Enemy, Light, Public, Security, Traveling, Trying)
"I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both."
- John Poindexter
(Related: Technology, Ability, Privacy, Security, Trade)
"I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States."
- John Poindexter
(Related: Technology, Successful, Development, Awareness, Beginning, Information, Privacy, states, United)
"The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general."
- John Charles Polanyi
(Related: Technology, Science, Rights, Human rights, Respect)
"Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression."
- John Charles Polanyi
(Related: Science, Technology, Absence, Rights, Human rights, Oppression, Respect)
"Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology."
- Karl Popper
(Related: Technology, Engineering)
"The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change."
- Michael Porter
(Related: Change, Technology, Strategy, Principles)
"If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems."
- Michael Porter
(Related: Technology, Leader, Goal, Problems)
"Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price."
- Jonathan Potter
(Related: Technology, Want)
"So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology."
- Michael K. Powell
(Related: Beauty, Technology, Communication, Future, Internet, Separation, Service)
"Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms."
- William Powell
(Related: Atoms, Manufacturing)
"The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought."
- Nick Price
(Related: Technology)
"I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!"
- David Prowse
(Related: Technology, Movies, Fact, First, Years)
"Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types."
- Eric S. Raymond
(Related: Technology, Environment, First, Hardware, Machines)
"Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened."
- Lee R. Raymond
(Related: Technology, Development, Competition, Country, Years)
"It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter."
- Robert Redford
(Related: Technology, Attention, Information, Mind)
"The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story."
- Robert Redford
(Related: Technology, Film, Now)
"All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now."
- Godfrey Reggio
(Related: Politics, Technology, Now, Tools)
"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."
- Godfrey Reggio
(Related: Technology)
"What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology."
- Godfrey Reggio
(Related: Technology, Light, Trying)
"Technology is not neutral."
- Godfrey Reggio
(Related: Technology)
"Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence."
- Godfrey Reggio
(Related: Technology)
"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life."
- Godfrey Reggio
(Related: Life, Nature, Technology, Politics, Religion, Society, Effect, Environment, Now)
"I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology."
- Frederick Reines
(Related: Science, Technology, Engineering, Physics)
"However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute."
- Frederick Reines
(Related: Technology, Enthusiasm, Chance, School)
"We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act."
- Condoleezza Rice
(Related: Technology, Possibility, Act, Terrorism, World)
"To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing."
- Keith Richards
(Related: Technology)
"We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food."
- Kevin Richardson
(Related: Food, Time, Technology, Prosperity, Water)
"In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me."
- Burton Richter
(Related: Technology, First, Physics)
"I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course."
- Jeremy Rifkin
(Related: History, Technology, Benefits, First, Revolution, Potential, Public, Running)
"What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether."
- Jeremy Rifkin
(Related: Technology, Needs, Public, Scientists)
"We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for."
- Jeremy Rifkin
(Related: Food, Technology, World)
"I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had."
- Terry Riley
(Related: Money, Technology, Dance, Fact, Production)
"For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace."
- Dennis Ritchie
(Related: Technology, Will)
"The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction."
- Lord Robertson
(Related: Technology, Destruction, Information, Production, states, Weapons)
"What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything."
- Robert Rodriguez
(Related: Love, Technology, Art, Idea)
"I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art."
- Richard Rogers
(Related: Architecture, Art, History, Science, Technology, Geography, Schools, Years)
"I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient."
- Kevin Rollins
(Related: Technology, Leading, Pretty)
"Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned, but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology."
- Kevin Rollins
(Related: Technology, Being)
"We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost."
- Roy Romer
(Related: Education, Technology, Quality, Attitude)
"But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun."
- Cesar Romero
(Related: Time, Technology, War, Fun, Glamour)
"I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology."
- John Romero
(Related: Technology, Being, Games, Now, Right)
"When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted."
- Hilary Rosen
(Related: Technology, Thought, People, Banks, Machines, Want)
"But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction."
- Joseph Rotblat
(Related: Death, Science, Technology, Achievement, Destruction, Discovery, First, News, Public)
"I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end."
- Rudy Rucker
"There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry."
- Mark Rydell
(Related: Technology)
"Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else."
- Jeffrey Sachs
(Related: Technology, Ideas, Deep, Globalization, Right)
"We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."
- Carl Sagan
(Related: Power, Science, Technology, Disaster, Faces, Ignorance)
"We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology."
- Carl Sagan
(Related: Science, Technology, Civilization)
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
- Carl Sagan
(Related: Science, Society, Technology)
"Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things."
- Diane Sawyer
(Related: Technology, Time, People, Being, Saying)
"There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal."
- Anne Wilson Schaef
(Related: Technology, Arrogance, Healing, May)
"The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change."
- Pierre Schaeffer
(Related: Change, Science, Technology, Humanity, Understanding, World)
"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response."
- Arthur M. Schlesinger
(Related: Science, Technology, Memory, Myth, Tradition)
"Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo."
- Eric Schmidt
(Related: Technology, Selling, Results)
"But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space."
- Jack Schmitt
(Related: Technology, Living, Moon, Space)
"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology."
- Bruce Schneier
(Related: Technology, Problems, Security)
"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology."
- E. F. Schumacher
(Related: Technology, Nature, Man, Self)
"It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology."
- Lee Scott
(Related: Technology, Leader)
"After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings."
- Harry Seidler
(Related: Architecture, War, Technology, World, World war)
"In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being."
- John Sexton
(Related: Power, Technology, Being, Mind, Space, Symbol, Today)
"I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology."
- John Sexton
(Related: Technology, Support)
"If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology."
- Clifford D. Simak
(Related: Technology, Civilization, Mankind, Present)
"There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes."
- Herbert Simon
(Related: Technology, People, Morals, Thinking)
"Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves."
- Herbert Simon
(Related: Technology, May, Pretty, Questions)
"The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation's ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime."
- Michael K. Simpson
(Related: Intelligence, Technology, Ability, Act, Crime, Drugs, Information, Nation, Terrorism, Tools)
"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."
- Carrie P. Snow
(Related: Technology, Gifts)
"It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine."
- Carrie P. Snow
(Related: Life, Technology, Control, Fact)
"The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite."
- Thomas Sowell
(Related: Science, Technology, People, Complexity, March)
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class."
- Thomas Sowell
(Related: Technology, Class, Students)
"The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology."
- John Spencer
(Related: Technology, Future, Manipulation, Research, World)
"The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them."
- Norman Spinrad
(Related: Technology, Travel, World)
"I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness."
- Norman Spinrad
(Related: Technology, Consciousness, Culture)
"The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes."
- Cliff Stearns
(Related: Technology, Time, Act, Balance, Harm, Right)
"There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today."
- Jackie Stewart
(Related: Technology, Chance, Circumstances, Fire, Safety, Today)
"I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek."
- Patrick Stewart
(Related: Technology, Years)
"Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?"
- Howard Stringer
(Related: Marriage, Technology, Bed, Content)
"There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters."
- Tara Strong
(Related: Technology)
"It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology."
- John Sununu
(Related: Medical, Technology, Years)
"This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences."
- John Sununu
(Related: Technology, Consequences, Enemies, Risk, states, United, Will)
"When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption."
- John Sununu
(Related: Technology, Destruction, Talking, Weapons)
"Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal."
- John Sununu
(Related: Technology, Weapons)
"The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies."
- Koichi Tanaka
(Related: Technology, Tradition, University)
"In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology."
- Koichi Tanaka
(Related: Technology, Engineering, University)
"These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms."
- Mick Taylor
(Related: Technology)
"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."
- Edward Teller
(Related: Science, Technology, Today, Tomorrow)
"We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives."
- Freeman Thomas
(Related: Technology, Life)
"While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place."
- John W. Thompson
(Related: Technology, Behavior, Right, State)
"One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology."
- John W. Thompson
(Related: Technology, Investment, Security)
"First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation."
- John W. Thompson
(Related: Technology, First, Security)
"The great growling engine of change - technology."
- Alvin Toffler
(Related: Change, Technology)
"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible."
- Alvin Toffler
(Related: Technology)
"However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted."
- Hideki Tojo
(Related: Technology, Progress, Action, Communication, Negotiation)
"I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology."
- Lars von Trier
(Related: Technology, Film)
"A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology."
- Robert Trout
(Related: Science, Society, Technology, Successful, Investment, Living, Population)
"I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm."
- Douglas Trumbull
(Related: Technology, Will)
"The technology of the time dictated the way things looked."
- Douglas Trumbull
(Related: Technology, Time)
"There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology."
- Douglas Trumbull
(Related: Technology, Work, Consistency, Limitations)
"The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm."
- Edward Tufte
(Related: Technology, Hope, Harm)
"If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press."
- Ed Turner
(Related: Technology, Press, Right)
"We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons."
- Mordechai Vanunu
(Related: Computers, Technology, Help, Weapons)
"Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message."
- Charles Vest
(Related: Education, Life, Science, Technology, Quality, Strength, Economy, Importance, Research, Security, Will)
"For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe."
- Charles Vest
(Related: Science, Technology)
"Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true."
- Charles Vest
(Related: Technology, Education, Science, People, Importance, Inflation)
"I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology."
- Vernor Vinge
(Related: Technology, Possibilities)
"But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic."
- Tony Visconti
(Related: Technology, Artists, Being, Today)
"I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap."
- Miroslav Vitous
(Related: Technology, Computer)
"You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something."
- Jon Voight
(Related: Technology, Quality, Opportunity, Film, Understanding, Voice, Will)
"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops."
- Gijs de Vries
(Related: Technology, Change)
"It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship."
- Henry A. Wallace
(Related: Age, Technology, Dictatorship)
"Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past."
- Jim Walton
(Related: Money, Technology, Ability, Circumstances, Past)
"During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer."
- Jim Walton
(Related: Technology, War, News)
"My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it."
- An Wang
(Related: Philanthropy)
"Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology."
- Mark Warner
(Related: Technology, Leader, Defense, Information, Security)
"I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs."
- John Warnock
(Related: Food, Health, Technology, Care, Communication, Needs)
"The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding."
- John Warnock
(Related: Technology, People, Fact, Fault, Gain, Neighbors, Understanding)
"Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn."
- Pete Waterman
(Related: Technology, Music, Question, World)
"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."
- Alan Watts
(Related: Technology, People, Universe)
"I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion."
- Chris Wedge
(Related: Technology, Work, Feeling, Potential, Ski, Trying)
"This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has."
- Chris Wedge
(Related: Technology, Computer, Film, Result, Will)
"I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology."
- Irvine Welsh
(Related: Technology, Time, Hate, Internet, Want, Writing)
"I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature.For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration."
- Meg Whitman
(Related: Technology, People, Example, Fight, Fraud, Job, Right)
"I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California."
- Meg Whitman
(Related: Change, Work, Business, Technology, People, Country, World)
"I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less."
- Meg Whitman
(Related: Business, Experience, Technology, Career, Climate, Contrast, Investment)
"The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind."
- Simon Wiesenthal
(Related: Technology, Danger, Hatred, Mankind)
"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster."
- Simon Wiesenthal
(Related: Technology, Disaster, Hatred)
"I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price."
- Walter Jon Williams
(Related: Technology, Work, Public, Reading)
"That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization."
- Charles E. Wilson
(Related: Science, Technology, Living, Tools)
"My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology."
- Kenneth G. Wilson
(Related: Technology)
"In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology."
- Kenneth G. Wilson
(Related: Science, Technology)
"My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives."
- Kenneth G. Wilson
(Related: Time, Technology, Mother, Engineering)
"To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions."
- Samuel Wilson
(Related: Change, Health, Technology, Knowledge, Open, Potential, Questions, Understanding)
"One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices."
- Samuel Wilson
(Related: Technology, Information, Medicine)
"Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!"
- Terri Windling
(Related: Work, Technology, Editors, EnglFantasy, Writers)
"I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future."
- Minoru Yamasaki
(Related: Technology, Environment, Future, Gain, Want, Will)
"Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him."
- Isaac Yeffet
(Related: Technology, Being, Help)
"Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy."
- Isaac Yeffet
(Related: Technology, Wife, Muslim, Machine, Privacy, Will)
"So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology."
- Daniel Yergin
(Related: Technology, Politics, Development, Investment)
"People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters."
- Daniel Yergin
(Related: Technology, People, Development, Today)
"There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time."
- James Young
(Related: Technology, Time, People)
"Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology."
- James Young
(Related: Technology, Right)
"On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense."
- Jamie Zawinski
(Related: Technology, Expertise, Sense, Value)
"The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century."
- Niklas Zennstrom
(Related: Time, Change, Technology)
"I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier."
- Sarah Zettel
(Related: Science, Technology, Fantasy, Myth, Understanding)
"What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people."
- Philip Zimbardo
(Related: Technology, Time, People, Revolution, Internet, Shyness)
"Technology makes the world a new place."
- Shoshana Zuboff
(Related: Technology, World)
"As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action."
- Shoshana Zuboff
(Related: Technology, Work, Thought, Action, Information)