| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Bill Gates | Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. | 101 |
| B. F. Skinner | The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.  | 101 |
| Margaret Atwood | Every aspect of human technology has a dark side, including the bow and arrow. | 101 |
| Steven Spielberg | Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone. | 101 |
| Alvin Toffler | Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. | 101 |
| Chris Milk | Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world. | 101 |
| Evgeny Morozov | Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims. | 101 |
| Freeman Dyson | 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. | 101 |
| Freeman A. Hrabowski III | Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology. | 101 |
| Gertrude Stein | Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. | 101 |
| Gianni Agnelli | 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. | 101 |
| Gordon Brown | 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. | 101 |
| Jeff Bridges | Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer. | 101 |
| John Lasseter | The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. | 101 |
| Linus Torvalds | The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it. | 101 |
| Lupe Fiasco | All the big revolutions, whether it's the Industrial Revolution, the Arab Spring, those changes happened by economic and social shifts brought about by the people's voices, and those things weren't voted for. Most of our changes today are brought about through technology, not by voting. | 101 |
| Neil Postman | 'Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I'm not entirely sure it's such a useful term, but I think that's what most people mean by it. | 101 |
| Ofra Strauss | The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people. | 101 |
| Paul Allen | Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time. | 101 |
| Peter Thiel | Technology just means information technology. | 101 |
| Richard Stallman | Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy. | 101 |
| Scott Kelly | A lot of the data we collect is stuff that has to be analyzed on the ground. For instance, we can't see, you know, bone loss. Our cells, you know, that's something that we'll have to notice with imaging technology when I get back. | 101 |
| Tim O'Reilly | What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done. | 101 |
| Vanessa Diffenbaugh | There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion. | 101 |
| Yoshiro Mori | India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology. | 101 |
| Zachary Levi | Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever. | 101 |
| Andrew Weil | Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance. | 101 |
| Bernard Ebbers | I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting. | 101 |
| Clive James | It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are. | 101 |
| Edward Teller | The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. | 101 |
| Fred Brooks | 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. | 101 |
| Glen Hansard | The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present. | 101 |
| Gordon Moore | 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. | 101 |
| Gwynne Shotwell | You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing blinders. If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself. | 101 |
| Jared Diamond | Technology has to be invented or adopted. | 101 |
| Kit Bond | 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. | 101 |
| Klaus Schwab | Of course, technology is not an exogenous force over which humans have no control. We are not constrained by a binary choice between acceptance and rejection. Rather, the decisions we make every day as citizens, consumers, and investors guide technological progress. | 101 |
| Luc Ferrari | 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. | 101 |
| Lucy Powell | In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world. | 101 |
| Lynn Jurich | For a lot of people, one of the reasons they don't like to work for founders of startups is that they can be sensitive and protective around what they've built. You have an emotional attachment to the early marketing and technology materials, and you don't want to hear that anything's wrong with them. | 101 |
| Michael Dell | Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships. | 101 |
| Nathaniel Philbrick | A survival tale peels away the niceties and comforts of civilization. Suddenly, all the technology and education in the world means nothing. I think all of us wonder while reading a survival tale, 'What would I have done in this situation? Would I have made it?' | 101 |
| Neal Asher | If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying. | 101 |
| Nick Johnson | The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule. | 101 |
| Pat Mitchell | TED Women will focus on the ideas and innovations championed by women and girls. These cover everything from community development to economic growth to biodynamic farming to robotics to medical treatments to the use of technology for personal safety and peace making. | 101 |
| Paul Harding | I'm no online whiz, but I'm not a Luddite, either. I love that we have these laptops and tablets and smart phones; they're awesome and convenient and all that. It's more about maintaining balance. Technology should always be a predicate of the true subject: our individual humanity, our examined lives. | 101 |
| Steve Ballmer | 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. | 101 |
| Thomas P. Campbell | Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology. | 101 |
| Tim Hunt | I fought for seven years to have creche facilities at the Okinawa Institute of Science of Technology - and was ultimately successful. Less successful have been efforts to get a creche at the new Crick Institute in London, but this is something I will continue to push for. | 101 |
| Tom Vilsack | Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought, the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated. | 101 |
| W. Daniel Hillis | If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds. | 101 |
| Wietse Venema | Defect-free software does not exist. | 101 |
| Albert Pujols | I'm thankful God has given us the technology where we can see each other through Skype on the computer. It's not the same thing, but at least we can see each other. Imagine the time before when that wasn't available and people had to go defend our country. It's really hard. I go two weeks without seeing my family and I go crazy. | 101 |
| Alex Steffen | I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change. | 101 |
| Amy Klobuchar | Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. | 101 |
| Daryl Hannah | 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. | 101 |
| Edgar Bronfman, Jr. | The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it. | 101 |
| Eduardo Paes | What we are witnessing is the birth of something I call 'Polisdigitocracy.' This is a form of government that counts participation and transparency as its cornerstones and uses technology as its guide. The digital revolution is allowing democracy to recall its foundations and evolution is modernizing and reinforcing our fundamental values. | 101 |
| Emily Greene Balch | Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest. | 101 |
| John Perry Barlow | Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. | 101 |
| Kamla Persad-Bissessar | We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy. | 101 |
| Leslie Dewan | Nuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential. | 101 |
| Megan Smith | The mandate for the CTO's office is to unleash the power of technology, data, and innovation on behalf of the nation. The CTO's office is really trying to bring best practices, possibilities, pilots, and policy advising. | 101 |
| Portia Simpson-Miller | Jamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth. | 101 |
| Risa Lavizzo-Mourey | Electronic medical records are, in a lot of ways, I think the aspect of technology that is going to revolutionize the way we deliver care. And it's not just that we will be able to collect information, it's that everyone involved in the healthcare enterprise will be able to use that information more effectively. | 101 |
| Robert Mueller | 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. | 101 |
| Shreya Ghoshal | I'm not a gadget freak, so to say. I own an iPhone, which I love, and would sorely love to upgrade to MacBook Air from my current MacBook Pro. But what gets me going is the technology behind the gadgets, new websites, new apps. And I'm way too much into social media - FB, Twitter and Instagram are always open on my phone. | 101 |
| Travis Kalanick | After Scour, I started a company called Red Swoosh. The idea was to take those litigants who sued us for a huge amount of money and turn them into customers with the same technology. I wanted to get them to pay me. It was a revenge business. | 101 |
| Bob Dole | The internet is a great way to get on the net. | 101 |
| Charles Mengel Allen | If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet. | 101 |
| Charles Vest | 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. | 101 |
| Chris Anderson | 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. | 101 |
| Chris Toumazou | Bio Life Technical's strategy of providing technical due diligence by expert professors from core disciplines and world class experts working with interdisciplinary institutes, such as Imperial College's Institute of Biomedical Engineering, will enable a more thorough scientific evaluation of the technology. | 101 |
| Geoff Downes | I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form. | 101 |
| George Nethercutt | From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history. | 101 |
| Graeme Simsion | I worked in information technology and academia for a long time and met many people who were better with things and ideas than with people. | 101 |
| Harish Rawat | Our first challenge is to ensure safety of pilgrims, and we will use modern technology for that. We will strengthen our telecom network and will provide special mobile apps to the pilgrims at the time of registration. | 101 |
| Hugh Hopper | Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors. | 101 |
| Laurent Fabius | 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. | 101 |
| Major Owens | Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included. | 101 |
| Matthew Rhys | I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology. | 101 |
| Melanne Verveer | The role of business in advancing women's rights is growing, particularly in the area of economic opportunity including opening access to training, mentoring, networks, markets, technology and even to capital in some circumstances. | 101 |
| Michael J. Saylor | Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions, let your computer or the iPad teach algebra... The hallmark of any good technology is that it destroys jobs. | 101 |
| Mick Taylor | These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms. | 101 |
| Peter Cullen | I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math. | 101 |
| Roger Altman | Russia's oil fields are mature and require capital and Western technology even to keep production flat. | 101 |
| Al Boliska | Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight? | 101 |
| Carrie Snow | Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. | 101 |
| David Milne | 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. | 101 |
| Douglas Trumbull | I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm. | 101 |
| Eric Allman | 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. | 101 |
| Georges Pompidou | There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. | 101 |
| Kevin Weisman | I like technology. I mean, I have surround at home so I can listen to the Lakers. | 101 |
| Mark Goddard | Life is about family and technology. | 101 |
| Michael Oxley | 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. | 101 |
| Sharon Lawrence | Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras making production less cumbersome. Social media is allowing self-distribution, and girl groups like Spark Summit are leading the way in calling for fewer Photoshop image alterations of girls in print media. | 101 |
| Tansy Rayner Roberts | One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives. | 101 |
| Arthur Levitt | 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. | 101 |
| Chip Kidd | I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you. | 101 |
| David Baker | No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions. | 101 |
| David Baltimore | 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. | 101 |
| Monica Edwards | We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff. | 101 |
| Renee Ellmers | If technology and communications can adapt to people's modern lifestyles, then why can't our labor laws follow suit? Private-sector businesses continue to live under an outdated federal mandate that says the only way to compensate for overtime is through cash wages. | 101 |
| Steve Crocker | 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. | 101 |
| Alan Cooper | There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer. | 101 |
| Cher Wang | Since the beginning, HTC has focused on developing strong research and development capabilities and keeping a close eye on consumer, market and technology trends. | 101 |
| Dee Bradley Baker | I am a geek dad, believe me. I've got my iPad with me; I've got my iPhone 4; I've got my Xbox. I love technology and I want to feel like I'm living in the future, and these devices help me feel that way. | 101 |
| Jeremy Stoppelman | There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful. | 101 |
| John Doolittle | 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. | 101 |
| Max Walker | It's been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There's no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible. | 101 |
| Robert Nelson | 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. | 101 |
| Ryan Trecartin | I think technology is us, not something we invented. I think we are more psychic now because we have cell phones and you can look and see who's calling you. When people start seeing technology as us, as humanity, our whole idea of what existence is, is going to shift. | 101 |
| Sachin Bansal | When e-commerce companies build scale, cost comes down. Companies that can handle scale and reduce costs over time will win. Margins will come from reducing costs over time and not by increasing prices. Technology is the answer at large scale. | 101 |
| Stewart Brand | Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. | 101 |
| Adam Ostrow | Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining. | 101 |
| Dennis Gabor | 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. | 101 |
| Richard Parsons | I don't think piracy is going to kill the music industry. But digital technology and the ability to download will change the packaging from CDs to a single-based business. | 101 |
| Sasa Vucinic | It's a great time for independent media because technology reduces the entry barrier. It makes it a phenomenal time for media in general. It's David versus Goliath, and David is always a little smarter, more nimble, more fast. | 101 |
| Michael Moritz | It's obviously unfair to paint with a broad brush here, but the germ of an idea for a breakthrough in technology doesn't come out of a business school curriculum. It comes out of a laboratory or a math lecture or a physics tutorial. | 101 |
| Michelle Gagnon | I was really fascinated by some of the things happening with Anonymous, the hackers group. I don't necessarily agree with everything they've done, but I thought it was a really interesting use of technology and the fact that there's a whole group of people who can take over systems and fight things from behind the scenes. | 101 |
| Andrew Brown | The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. | 101 |
| Mitchell Kapor | 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. | 101 |
| Arthur M. Schlesinger | Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. | 101 |
| Jacques Ellul | 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. | 101 |
| James Gunn | 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. | 101 |
| Jerry Zucker | I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them. | 101 |
| John Phillips | Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be. | 101 |
| Jean Arp | Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. | 101 |
| John F. Tierney | On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science, math, engineering and information technology. At the same time, we must give every student access to a college degree. | 101 |
| John Spencer | The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology. | 101 |
| Aldous Huxley | Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. | 102 |
| Dave Barry | The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. | 102 |
| Arthur C. Clarke | Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. | 102 |
| Bill Burr | Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What do you end up getting, you end up getting, like, a question mark. You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, 'You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words.' | 102 |
| Fred Allen | Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. | 102 |
| George Lucas | The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want. | 102 |
| Graham Greene | Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. | 102 |
| Gretchen Rubin | Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master. | 102 |
| Nina Garcia | People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things. | 102 |
| Orrin Hatch | Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition. | 102 |
| Peter Diamandis | Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you. | 102 |
| Simon Mainwaring | Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community. | 102 |
| Vint Cerf | We have already discovered how quickly we become dependent on the Internet and its applications for business, government and research, so it is not surprising that we are finding that we can apply this technology to enable or facilitate our social interactions as well. | 102 |
| Alex Berenson | Information technology departments must spend enormous amounts of time and money worrying about integrating big computer systems with billions of pieces of customer data. | 102 |
| Annalee Newitz | With technology tracking us everywhere we go, 'cosplay' might become our best defense against surveillance. | 102 |
| Charlie Munger | When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change. | 102 |
| Damian Marley | A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. | 102 |
| Edward Tufte | The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm. | 102 |
| Esther Dyson | It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online. | 102 |
| Guy Gavriel Kay | My privacy concerns have to do with the world, other people, technology intruding upon us - what Talmudic scholars once called 'the unwanted gaze.' Here I see major issues and concerns as society evolves, and I've written often on the subject. | 102 |
| Jonathan Sacks | Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say. | 102 |
| Martin Rees | The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work. | 102 |
| Matt Blunt | 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. | 102 |
| Mitch Kapor | If information wants to be free, then that's true everywhere, not just in information technology. | 102 |
| Nick D'Aloisio | My motivation has always been to do technology apps and companies, not making money. Just because the money's come, nothing's changed. | 102 |
| Reggie Watts | Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down. | 102 |
| Scott Cook | We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution. | 102 |
| Thomas Bangalter | The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature. | 102 |
| Thomas P. Campbell | Technology is in fact one of the most exciting things that's happened to museums today - but one has to be careful about where one uses it. For instance, the Internet provides an incredible opportunity. It is a way for us to reach audiences around the world and further our educational mission. | 102 |
| Walt Mossberg | Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple. | 102 |
| Weili Dai | Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered. | 102 |
| Beth Simone Noveck | In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change. | 102 |
| Elizabeth Emken | We all know Sen. Feinstein is out of touch, but just to make it worse, by not embracing today's technology, she isn't even connected. Out of touch and disconnected. | 102 |
| Graham Brown | I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today. | 102 |
| John Cusack | I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen. | 102 |
| John Glenn | 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. | 102 |
| Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw | If you think about brewing, it is biotechnology. And I would say that I was a technologist at heart. So whether I... fermented beer or whether I fermented enzymes, the base technology was the same. | 102 |
| Li Shufu | I believe the auto industry is a competition of human resources, competition of funding, competition of technology - and the competition is international. | 102 |
| Luca Cordero di Montezemolo | 'LaFerrari' means 'the Ferrari.' The excellence. In this car, we put everything we are able to do. Our extreme technology, extreme experience, extreme capability. And this has been the first Ferrari totally designed in our design center. | 102 |
| Ma Jun | When I look at China's environmental problems, the real barrier is not lack of technology or money. It's lack of motivation. | 102 |
| Nam June Paik | Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence. | 102 |
| Nick Bostrom | Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with technology, as it happens, we might indeed be able to transfer some of our acquired traits on to our selected offspring by genetic engineering. | 102 |
| Peter Roskam | Everywhere we look, technology has changed our daily lives - from the way we pay our bills, to the way we buy plane tickets or keep in touch with friends and family. | 102 |
| Ronnie Dunn | I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past. | 102 |
| Brenton Thwaites | I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting. | 102 |
| Brian Kernighan | Technology is mostly a force for good, but it has its downsides, too. I want my students - and my readers - to be intelligently skeptical about technology and be informed about the good and the not-so-good parts. | 102 |
| Boomer Esiason | I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community. | 102 |
| Chris Anderson | And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn. | 102 |
| Don Nickles | 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. | 102 |
| Erez Lieberman Aiden | Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply. | 102 |
| John Pistole | 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. | 102 |
| John W. Thompson | What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is the individual; we shouldn't kid ourselves. | 102 |
| Lord Robertson | 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. | 102 |
| Lorene Scafaria | For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore. | 102 |
| Spencer Bachus | 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. | 102 |
| Timothy Garton Ash | 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. | 102 |
| Wolfgang Petersen | Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we're becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don't think the desire for that magic will ever go away. | 102 |
| Alan Huffman | In our quest to define and describe the world, we have crisscrossed the oceans and continents, compiling exhaustive knowledge about its life forms and features, and extended our physical reach through technology, which provides us instantaneous and pervasive access to information about seemingly everything. | 102 |
| Daniel Suarez | I think technology is spreading, and I think one's experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country. | 102 |
| Daphne Koller | Not everything that happens in an in-person classroom is currently replicated with an online course, and perhaps the experience will never be the quite the same. But there are new opportunities that online learning opens up that would have never been possible without this technology. | 102 |
| Eric Allman | 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. | 102 |
| Lawrence Clark Powell | We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. | 102 |
| Lee Kun-hee | There's an ongoing competition by global companies across all areas from products, technology development and hiring talented people to patent disputes. The market is big and opportunities are wide open, so we should find out new businesses that Samsung's future will hinge on. | 102 |
| Martin Evans | I have always been interested - indeed, waylaid - by the leading edges of technology, even during my Ph.D. years when I pioneered (but did not publish) agarose gel electrophoresis for RNA fractionation. Also, much later, I was instrumental in showing that Green Fluorescent Protein and RNAi could be made to work in mammalian cells. | 102 |
| Michael Oxley | Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry. | 102 |
| Richard Smalley | Carbon has this genius of making a chemically stable, two-dimensional, one-atom-thick membrane in a three-dimensional world. And that, I believe, is going to be very important in the future of chemistry and technology in general. | 102 |
| Robert Jarvik | I am, in fact, a medical doctor; I am a world expert in mechanical heart technology; and I am an athletically fit man who takes care of his own health through diet and exercise, including frequent five mile runs. | 102 |
| Samuel Wilson | One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices. | 102 |
| Ted Bell | Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody. | 102 |
| Amanda Crew | I have mixed feelings about how fast things are changing as a result of technology. There's no denying that through technology there are amazing things being created that help people with diseases or help people's dreams come true. But there's also this obsession. Social media is the most dangerous of them all. | 102 |
| Charles Pelly | Ultimately, auto designers need to overcome market challenges with innovative design solutions. The automotive industry is at a turning point with environmental and economic conditions on one side and breakthrough technology on the other, so it will be fascinating to see how these design leaders envision the future. | 102 |
| James Collins | 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. | 102 |
| Jesse James Garrett | Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. | 102 |
| Jim Cramer | 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. | 102 |
| John Frankenheimer | 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. | 102 |
| Liang Wengen | As for opportunities, there is room for improved product quality and better service and raising our technology standard. In addition, we should have a certain share of the global market. However, we should consider new industries, such as resource development. | 102 |
| Mark Rydell | There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. | 102 |
| Michael K. Powell | More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media. | 102 |
| Reed Hundt | We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data. | 102 |
| Charles Leadbeater | If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves. | 102 |
| Diane Duane | Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business. | 102 |
| John Poindexter | 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. | 102 |
| Shoshana Zuboff | Technology makes the world a new place. | 102 |
| Stu Jackson | I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game. | 102 |
| Clement Mok | 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. | 102 |
| Dietmar Hopp | The biotechnology wave is similar to the information technology wave of the 1980s and 1990s. | 102 |
| Mark Pocan | We know that to compete for the jobs of the 21st century and thrive in a global economy, we need a growing, skilled and educated workforce, particularly in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. Americans with bachelor's degrees have half the unemployment rate of those with a high school degree. | 102 |
| Stewart Alsop | Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal. | 102 |
| Jim Walton | 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. | 102 |
| Mitchell Kapor | Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. | 102 |
| Carl Sagan | 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. | 103 |
| R. Buckminster Fuller | Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. | 103 |
| Andy Grove | Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. | 103 |
| David Deutsch | 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. | 103 |
| Eric Schmidt | If you look at the history of technology over a couple hundred years, it's all about time compression and making the globe smaller. It's had positive effects, all the ones that we know. So we're much less likely to have the kind of terrible misunderstandings that led to World War I, for example. | 103 |
| Fred Durst | If you wanna know how not secure you are, just take a look around. Nothing's secure. Nothing's safe. I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security. | 103 |
| Macklemore | Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create. | 103 |
| Norm Crosby | 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. | 103 |
| Norm MacDonald | I'm happy doing stand-up, but I'll probably do a television show eventually. If not, I'll delve into this Internet world and decide best how to harness it. What I like best about it is the independent movie style and the ability to just be completely reckless within that world. I like that a lot. I just have to acquaint myself with technology. | 103 |
| Tim O'Reilly | Why did Google, for example, recently decide to offer free 411 service? I haven't talked to people at Google, but it's pretty clear to me why. It's because of speech recognition. It has nothing to do with 411 service: it has to do with getting a database of voices, so they don't have to license speech technology from Nuance or someone else. | 103 |
| Yves Behar | The biggest challenge is that when people look at low price point products, they essentially invest less money in development, innovation, and new technology. And in order to innovate at a lower price point, and make sustainability attainable to the masses, you have to invest more. But that's counterintuitive for a lot of businesses. | 103 |
| Alan Kay | People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. | 103 |
| Bernard Ebbers | I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting. | 103 |
| Bing Gordon | It's very difficult for people who don't play video games to understand their power simply by watching, and it's very difficult for people who aren't close to technology to understand how rapidly it can change whatever it touches. | 103 |
| Brendan Iribe | We designed a number of features from the ground up, like custom display and optics technology with very high refresh rates and pixel density. We added integrated 3-D audio, a built-in microphone so you can speak to friends inside virtual worlds, and precise mechanical adjustment systems. | 103 |
| Bruce Schneier | If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology. | 103 |
| Cesar Romero | 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. | 103 |
| Daniel H. Wilson | We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology. | 103 |
| Daniel Yergin | 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. | 103 |
| Jack Dorsey | When people come to Twitter and they want to express something in the world, the technology fades away. It's them writing a simple message and them knowing that people are going to see it. | 103 |
| James Surowiecki | If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong. | 103 |
| Jason Silva | As technology continues to increase our possibilities, what we're seeing is a shrinking of the lag time between what we dream about and what we create. | 103 |
| Klaus Schwab | The First Industrial Revolution used water and steam power to mechanize production. The Second used electric power to create mass production. The Third used electronics and information technology to automate production. | 103 |
| Nathan Deal | As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive. | 103 |
| Peter Guber | I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you and I are analog creatures. We have to take 'oohs and aahs' and convert them to 0s and 1s and then convert them back to 'oohs and aahs.' Narratives that work in social networks are the exchange of stories that are told well. | 103 |
| Ron Wyden | Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them. | 103 |
| Steve Aoki | 'Neon Future' is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking forward to a bright, colorful utopia. It's embracing the future and looking toward the future in a more optimistic way. | 103 |
| Tony Visconti | 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. | 103 |
| Wayne Huizenga | I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish? | 103 |
| Aleksander Kwasniewski | Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development. | 103 |
| Bram Cohen | 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. | 103 |
| David Boies | 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. | 103 |
| Diane Paulus | We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity. | 103 |
| Graham Hawkes | The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration. | 103 |
| Honor Harger | My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology. | 103 |
| Jaron Lanier | If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost. | 103 |
| K. Eric Drexler | 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. | 103 |
| Mitchell Baker | I'm a good communicator, and I'm a good translator. I can talk to engineers; I can talk to people for whom technology is not remotely interesting or even maybe scary - things like that. | 103 |
| Ramez Naam | Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment. | 103 |
| Richard D. Zanuck | Everything's changed. The technology is the big thing changing now, the way movies like 'Alice' or 'Avatar' are made. And technology on the other side, the audience side. Word spreads so fast now on a movie, with the Internet, and piracy is something coming down the line like in the music industry. | 103 |
| Robert Fogel | The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two. | 103 |
| Tim Holden | 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. | 103 |
| Art Spiegelman | The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages. | 103 |
| Chris Toumazou | I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic illness. | 103 |
| Mark Mothersbaugh | 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. | 103 |
| Tom Holt | 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. | 103 |
| Arnold Newman | Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses. | 103 |
| Jan Chipchase | Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa. | 103 |
| Max Levchin | Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector. | 103 |
| Maynard Webb | Technology, and applications of this technology, will continue to improve and evolve, providing unprecedented, global access to information, individuals, training, and opportunities. | 103 |
| Mordechai Vanunu | 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. | 103 |
| Richard Smalley | Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality. | 103 |
| Roy Romer | 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. | 103 |
| Ruchi Sanghvi | Dropbox looks really simple to the end user and is extremely magical and just works. But under the hood, the complexity of the technology is huge. The amount of work it requires to store, scale and move this data is pretty intense. | 103 |
| Simon Kuznets | Mass application of technological innovations, which constitutes much of the distinctive substance of modern economic growth, is closely connected with the further progress of science, in its turn the basis for additional advance in technology. | 103 |
| Tom Wujec | As technology progresses, and as it advances, many of us assume that these advances make us more intelligent, make us smarter and more connected to the world. And what I'd like to argue is that that's not necessarily the case, as 'progress' is simply a word for change, and with change you gain something, but you also lose something. | 103 |
| Christopher Bond | 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. | 103 |
| Daniel Bell | Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. | 103 |
| Jam Master Jay | 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. | 103 |
| Jon Katz | Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully. | 103 |
| Marc Morial | 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. | 103 |
| Max Frisch | Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it. | 103 |
| Michael K. Powell | 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. | 103 |
| Raghav Bahl | To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video. | 103 |
| Sid Meier | Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun. | 103 |
| Shoshana Zuboff | As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action. | 103 |
| John Katzman | The Internet is the first technology since the printing press which could lower the cost of a great education and, in doing so, make that cost-benefit analysis much easier for most students. It could allow American schools to service twice as many students as they do now, and in ways that are both effective and cost-effective. | 103 |
| John Dykstra | 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. | 103 |
| Jack L. Chalker | 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. | 103 |
| Jim Breyer | I feel there is so much more we can do in improving education, making it accessible and understanding how technology can be a part of the solution. | 103 |
| John von Neumann | 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. | 103 |
| Andy Grove | Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line. | 104 |
| Chris Milk | In virtual reality, we're placing the viewer inside a moment or a story... made possible by sound and visual technology that's actually tricking the brain into believing it's somewhere else. | 104 |
| Daniel J. Boorstin | Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. | 104 |
| David Crystal | Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language. | 104 |
| Ezekiel Emanuel | Patients who are being kept alive by technology and want to end their lives already have a recognized constitutional right to stop any and all medical interventions, from respirators to antibiotics. They do not need physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia. | 104 |
| F. Sionil Jose | Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology. | 104 |
| Gabe Newell | The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates. | 104 |
| Geddy Lee | 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. | 104 |
| Kenneth Fisher | Environmentalists should like fracking for its relative cleanliness. But they don't. They have made a bugaboo out of the chemicals in fracking fluids, which supposedly can leach into groundwater sources. I'm convinced they're dead wrong. Ultimately, good technology with a cost advantage will win out over paranoia. | 104 |
| Peter Thiel | Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it. | 104 |
| Queen Rania of Jordan | In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps. | 104 |
| Ray Kurzweil | Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings. | 104 |
| Robert Redford | 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. | 104 |
| Robert Reich | Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job. | 104 |
| Astro Teller | When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.' | 104 |
| Doris Kearns Goodwin | The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes. | 104 |
| Emilio Estevez | We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth. | 104 |
| Harmony Korine | I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines. | 104 |
| Jack Dorsey | I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test. | 104 |
| Ludacris | I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go. | 104 |
| Michael Crichton | Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down. | 104 |
| Padmasree Warrior | For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong! | 104 |
| Scott Cook | Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present. | 104 |
| Sherry Turkle | Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are. | 104 |
| Steve Aoki | I like looking at a future where we're expanding our creativity and brightening our lives. I believe that eventually we'll get to a point where we'll be able to live indefinitely through our technology. | 104 |
| Tony DiTerlizzi | When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive. | 104 |
| Adora Svitak | As we grow up in more technology-enriched environments filled with laptops and smart phones, technology is not just becoming a part of our daily lives - it's becoming a part of each and every one of us. | 104 |
| Bill Griffith | 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. | 104 |
| Bob Barr | Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked. | 104 |
| Charles E. Wilson | That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization. | 104 |
| David Gerrold | In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds. | 104 |
| Erik Brynjolfsson | Technology has always been destroying jobs, and it has always been creating jobs. | 104 |
| Gerard Depardieu | My unrealized ambition is to tend my vines, produce wine, and work like an artisan. I dream of rediscovering the old traditions and customs of wine growing, not necessarily to deny the technology which we have today, but to harness it and work in harmony with nature. | 104 |
| Godfrey Reggio | It's not that we use technology, we live technology. | 104 |
| Jaron Lanier | It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering. | 104 |
| Keith Belling | Potatoes are popped, with no oil, using the same technology used in the rice cake manufacturing business. It took a lot of trial and error and lots of practice, though, to get the right flavor. | 104 |
| Lou Gramm | Regardless what technology is, I like analog too. | 104 |
| Michael K. Simpson | 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. | 104 |
| Nick Bostrom | There are some problems that technology can't solve. | 104 |
| Ralph Merkle | 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. | 104 |
| Richard Preston | I'm all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I'm not afraid of knowledge... With all new technology, weapons inevitably emerge... Evil comes out of the human heart. It doesn't come out of nature. | 104 |
| Robert Darnton | Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty. | 104 |
| S. Jay Olshansky | I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life. | 104 |
| Tom Chatfield | I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we've ever invented has quite done before. | 104 |
| Matt Drudge | If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that? | 104 |
| Michael J. Saylor | It's easy to fall into the trap of assuming that a new technology is very similar to its predecessors. A new technology is often perceived as the linear extension of the previous one, and this leads us to believe the new technology will fill the same roles - just a little faster or a little smaller or a little lighter. | 104 |
| Sanjay Kumar | 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. | 104 |
| Shinya Yamanaka | My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases. | 104 |
| Shuji Nakamura | The promise of energy savings, reduced carbon emissions and affordable lighting was there from the inception. The proliferation of the technology into areas such as displays, automotive, medicine and horticulture was unexpected. | 104 |
| Tim Armstrong | One of AOL's biggest assets is its brand. For people over 30 and, due to AOL Instant Messenger, even a lot of people under 30, AOL was their first real interaction with technology in a positive way. | 104 |
| Jack Kilby | 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. | 104 |
| Lemn Sissay | Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression. | 104 |
| Richard Ernst | 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. | 104 |
| Scott Howell | The chalkboards are no longer cutting it. We've got to adapt education at every level to this new paradigm to keep our kids competitive. Affordability of technology has to be at the forefront of everything we do. | 104 |
| Sebastian Pinera | To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality. | 104 |
| Toni Cade Bambara | And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living. | 104 |
| Anita Borg | If women want to ensure themselves a meaningful place in the future, they need to be among those determining how the technology will be used. They need to be among those deciding whether it will be the great leveler or simply serve to worsen social divisions. | 104 |
| Cordell Hull | 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. | 104 |
| John Sexton | 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. | 104 |
| Jeremy Stoppelman | Where folks like Google have fallen down is in just putting a little review box up, then closing their eyes and letting the algorithm take care of itself. Yelp is a technology company, but also a company that understands how people want to connect with one another. | 104 |
| Jan de Bont | Technology is a major tool in exploring and challenging your creativity, but it can also overtake your creativity... My mind goes very fast, and I can see all kinds of images that would be spectacular on the screen. But they would cost so much money, and would they really make the story that much better? | 104 |
| Jim Costa | 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. | 104 |
| Julius Genachowski | One of the things I've come to realize is that, like every new technology and like every disruption, broadband has downsides. | 104 |
| Justin Rosenstein | We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change. | 104 |
| J. I. Packer | I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger. | 104 |
| Jackie Stewart | 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. | 104 |
| Joe Trohman | I feel like touchscreen technology blows my mind still. It just makes me think of all of the sci-fi films I enjoyed as a kid. | 104 |
| John Doerr | People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age. | 104 |
| John Warnock | 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. | 104 |
| Bill Gates | 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. | 105 |
| Dave Barry | Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions. | 105 |
| Marshall McLuhan | The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. | 105 |
| Brian Eno | 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. | 105 |
| David Copperfield | Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin. | 105 |
| Ginni Rometty | IBM's long-standing mantra is 'Think.' What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues. | 105 |
| Harvey Weinstein | The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is. | 105 |
| Herbert A. Simon | 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. | 105 |
| Hideki Tojo | 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. | 105 |
| Jesse Jackson | You can be out of slavery and have the right to vote, but unless you have access to capital, industry and technology, you can't fulfill your dreams. | 105 |
| Naveen Jain | We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve. | 105 |
| Neil Postman | I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic consequences. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology. | 105 |
| Omar N. Bradley | If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. | 105 |
| Paul Allen | 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. | 105 |
| Peter Thiel | People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why. | 105 |
| Rigoberta Menchu | The indigenous peoples never had, and still do not have, the place that they should have occupied in the progress and benefits of science and technology, although they represented an important basis for this development. | 105 |
| Sebastian Thrun | Technology is synonymous for connection with other people. | 105 |
| Tim Berners-Lee | Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. | 105 |
| Tracy Chapman | 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. | 105 |
| Vince Neil | With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless. | 105 |
| Wernher von Braun | For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift. | 105 |
| Zedd | I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part. | 105 |
| Clive James | Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. | 105 |
| Dan Jenkins | Being a club pro and all, a guy trying to keep up with golf's modern technology, I hadn't found much time for Internet dating, but then one day I knew I'd met the girl of my dreams when she replied to a comment I'd made on You-and-Me.com. She said, 'I love it when you talk equipment to me.' | 105 |
| Daniel Ek | I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify. | 105 |
| Erik Qualman | As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to see more women have a heavy influence if not dominant role in the social media space. It's no wonder that Facebook is being run in part by chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg. | 105 |
| Howard Stringer | 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? | 105 |
| Larry Wall | Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. | 105 |
| Martin Rees | Scientists surely have a special responsibility. It is their ideas that form the basis of new technology. They should not be indifferent to the fruits of their ideas. They should forgo experiments that are risky or unethical. | 105 |
| Mary Roach | I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a stop to that. Now I sit and watch old' Friends' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' episodes. Walking is good, but here again, technology has interfered. I like to listen to iTunes while I walk home. I guess I don't think anymore. | 105 |
| Philip Green | Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind. | 105 |
| Sarah Parcak | The only technology that can 'see' beneath the ground is radar imagery. But satellite imagery also allows scientists to map short- and long-term changes to the Earth's surface. Buried archaeological remains affect the overlying vegetation, soils and even water in different ways, depending on the landscapes you're examining. | 105 |
| Sherry Turkle | I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows. | 105 |
| Walt Mossberg | I've been on the Web from the beginning of the Web. The good part about writing about technology is that you never run out of ideas, because it's changing so fast. The bad part is that it's changing so fast that there's a million new products and ideas every day and every week. | 105 |
| Andy Weir | Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't. | 105 |
| Emily Greene Balch | 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. | 105 |
| Jon Oringer | There is a lack of talent in technology, and we need to be encouraging kids in school to learn how to code. We need to encourage computer science as a major. We need to encourage entrepreneurism. | 105 |
| Paul Anka | The technology is good and it's bad. You know what you're dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don't quite know what I'm dealing with out there yet. | 105 |
| Stewart Butterfield | Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher-fidelity than the lowest-common-denominator technology. There are a lot of things that Slack gives you that email doesn't when you think about internal use. | 105 |
| Thomas R. Insel | From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care. | 105 |
| Tom Udall | With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy. | 105 |
| Ann Druyan | 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. | 105 |
| Jonathan Raymond | Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money. | 105 |
| Laurent Fabius | 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. | 105 |
| Scott McNealy | The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it. | 105 |
| Sunil Mittal | Technology is something we buy to sell to the customers. Ericsson, Nokia and IBM do technology for a living, so let's give it to them because they know best. It has made the business model of Bharti very, very sustainable. | 105 |
| Aaron Levie | The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it. | 105 |
| Bethany Joy Lenz | I love the romance of the '40s. It was the perfect time to live. Technology wasn't so advanced that it made life more difficult, but it was just enough that you can send a phone call or a telegram. And people still took pride in how they looked. The men got dressed up and the women got dressed up and they took care of themselves. | 105 |
| Cameron Sinclair | When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken. | 105 |
| Joe Dante | 'Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone. | 105 |
| Lemn Sissay | I think we are in an age where cash pays for time and space. The more cash you have, the bigger space you can buy and the smaller the technology to put in it. | 105 |
| Russ Carnahan | 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. | 105 |
| Samuel Wilson | 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. | 105 |
| Anita Borg | If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes. | 105 |
| Marc Garneau | 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. | 105 |
| John Poindexter | 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. | 105 |
| John Katzman | The Internet rewards scale; by trading higher up-front costs for lower marginal cost, market leaders can invest in better technology and service. As a result, there is nothing online that is both great in quality and small in scale. Amazon wasn't originally a better bookstore than the small shops we mourn, but it is now. | 105 |
| Mark Warner | Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology. | 105 |
| Jan C. Ting | Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future. | 105 |
| Jerry Brown | 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! | 105 |
| John Warnock | 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. | 105 |
| Carl Sagan | We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. | 106 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | Mechanization best serves mediocrity. | 106 |
| Dean Kamen | Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding. | 106 |
| Fareed Zakaria | What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies. | 106 |
| Ginni Rometty | And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not. | 106 |
| Marissa Mayer | You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms. | 106 |
| Marc Andreessen | To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something. | 106 |
| N. R. Narayana Murthy | If the U.S. became the undisputed superpower that it is today, it was primarily because of its technology, whether it is in transportation, agriculture, high-tech industry, medicine, etc. | 106 |
| Nathan Myhrvold | My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it. | 106 |
| Paul Rand | Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. | 106 |
| Pauline Neville-Jones | To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training. | 106 |
| Reed Hastings | In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age. | 106 |
| Satya Nadella | Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it. | 106 |
| Steven Pressfield | Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command. | 106 |
| Astro Teller | Doing exercise without monitoring yourself will be rare in the future of wearable technology. | 106 |
| Daniel Yergin | So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology. | 106 |
| E. F. Schumacher | The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology. | 106 |
| Gwynne Shotwell | If you're not looking toward the future or trying to improve the current technology, you'll be left behind. | 106 |
| Kevin Richardson | 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. | 106 |
| Kumar Mangalam Birla | My father taught us that to thrive, excellence in technology, quality, and customer service along with cost competitiveness is a prerequisite. His contribution to business, the economy, and society at large can never be underscored enough. | 106 |
| Mae Jemison | I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company. | 106 |
| Penny Marshall | I don't mind if somebody texts me but I'm not a big texter, the things are too small. I don't mind if they text, '7 o'clock,' that's fine, that's logistics but, 'What's up?' Get real! Pick up a phone! | 106 |
| Rick Pitino | Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don't use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely. | 106 |
| Rick Smolan | Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used. | 106 |
| Sebastian Bach | I'm always working on new songs. With the technology these days, any idiot can record on Pro Tools on your laptop. All you have to do is plug a microphone into the input jack and anybody can have their own recording studio. So I'm always down in my basement, singing along to riffs or whoever I'm collaborating with. | 106 |
| Stacey D'Erasmo | The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location. | 106 |
| Aaron Koblin | I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in. | 106 |
| Colin Angle | The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don't focus. | 106 |
| Godfrey Reggio | 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. | 106 |
| Megan Smith | I love to use technology to help people have better lives and to reduce our impact on the planet. | 106 |
| Ralph Merkle | 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. | 106 |
| Steven Sinofsky | Disruption is a critical element of the evolution of technology - from the positive and negative aspects of disruption a typical pattern emerges, as new technologies come to market and subsequently take hold. | 106 |
| Abbe Pierre | 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. | 106 |
| Alan Perlis | In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. | 106 |
| Cynthia McKinney | The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology. | 106 |
| Daniel Greenberg | 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. | 106 |
| Jane Levy | I have very complex and complicated ideas about technology. It's such a prominent way that we communicate with each other. In ways, I think it's really positive, and in ways, I think it's really negative. | 106 |
| John W. Thompson | I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like. | 106 |
| Jonathan Zittrain | The last refuge of privacy cannot be placed solely in law or technology. It must repose in both, and a thoughtful combination of the two can help us thread a path between having all our secrets trivially discoverable and preserving nothing for our later selves for fear of that discovery. | 106 |
| Major Owens | We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere. | 106 |
| Carrie Snow | 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. | 106 |
| Clifford Stoll | The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. | 106 |
| Jerry Yang | Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of. | 106 |
| John Cameron | 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. | 106 |
| Michael K. Powell | Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream. | 106 |
| Mickey Hart | I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one. | 106 |
| An Wang | My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it. | 106 |
| Jay Chiat | 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. | 106 |
| Mary Pickford | Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo. | 106 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | 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. | 107 |
| Barbara Boxer | We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American. | 107 |
| Christopher Nolan | I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology. | 107 |
| Dan Lipinski | 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. | 107 |
| Edward R. Murrow | The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. | 107 |
| Issey Miyake | Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand. | 107 |
| Marc Andreessen | Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies. | 107 |
| Marissa Mayer | Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side. | 107 |
| Shimon Peres | In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and technology. | 107 |
| Thor Heyerdahl | 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. | 107 |
| Tim Berners-Lee | The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. | 107 |
| Bill Frist | 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. | 107 |
| Bill Maris | Healthcare is becoming part of information technology. | 107 |
| George Lois | What Apple did for technology is brilliant, but they didn't do nothin' for our economy. | 107 |
| Jim Barksdale | 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. | 107 |
| John Legend | In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle. | 107 |
| Laura Esquivel | There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values. | 107 |
| Michael Dell | I've been fascinated with technology since I was a boy banging around on my father's adding machine. Back then I'd type in an equation, the device made some cool noises, and out came my answer. I was hooked. | 107 |
| Nina Fedoroff | Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology. | 107 |
| Patrick Soon-Shiong | I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind. | 107 |
| Siddhartha Mukherjee | Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering. | 107 |
| Thomas Bangalter | There was a naive quality in 1982 around technology and the start of video games. And that's like the start of electronic music - there was this statement and, ideologically, these things to fight for. | 107 |
| Adora Svitak | To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete. | 107 |
| Ariel Pink | If I got the option of going into outer space and hanging out there for a day and then coming back home and dying the next day, or just waiting around to see if there's any opportunity for the technology to develop so that I might experience outer space sometime in the future, I would probably take the ride today and die tomorrow. | 107 |
| Barry Commoner | 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. | 107 |
| Bruce Sterling | I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet. | 107 |
| Burt Rutan | Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty years after Yuri Gagarin, the space shuttle ended up being more dangerous and more expensive to fly than those first throwaway rockets, even though large portions of it were reusable. It's absurd. | 107 |
| LeVar Burton | If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win. | 107 |
| Louise Erdrich | What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be passed from hand to hand and lasts a lot longer than an electronic reader. | 107 |
| Ralph Merkle | Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production. | 107 |
| Robert Darnton | We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that will determine the future for decades or more, despite the endless innovations of technology. | 107 |
| Bob Brown | There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium. | 107 |
| Jamie Bell | Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things. | 107 |
| Janet Napolitano | 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. | 107 |
| Joseph Rotblat | 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. | 107 |
| Jose Padilha | Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local. | 107 |
| John F. Kerry | 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. | 107 |
| Judy Biggert | 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. | 107 |
| Jimmy Carter | Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world. | 108 |
| Ben Whishaw | I'm really hopeless with technology - I don't even have a computer. | 108 |
| Dean Kamen | Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do. | 108 |
| Iain Banks | I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds. | 108 |
| Ibrahim Babangida | 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. | 108 |
| Karen Armstrong | Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it. | 108 |
| Nick Harkaway | Steampunk appeals to the idea of uniqueness, to the one-off item, while every mainstream consumer technology of recent years is about putting human beings into ever more granular, packageable and mass-produced identities so that they can be sold or sold to, perfectly mapped and understood. | 108 |
| Norman Foster | Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you can't separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building. | 108 |
| Ray Kurzweil | Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. | 108 |
| Reed Hastings | School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly. | 108 |
| Robert Rodriguez | 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. | 108 |
| Sebastian Thrun | I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet. | 108 |
| Vinod Khosla | Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology. | 108 |
| William Gibson | Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. | 108 |
| Ze Frank | The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again. | 108 |
| Charlie Munger | The perfect example of Darwinism is what technology has done to businesses. | 108 |
| Don DeLillo | In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic. | 108 |
| Esther Dyson | 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. | 108 |
| Larry Wall | I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great. | 108 |
| Thomas Bangalter | Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology. | 108 |
| Andy Weir | There's more to research than just looking up facts. Eventually, you have to make subjective calls. If you're writing a science fiction novel, there's probably some speculative technology in it. You'll have to decide how to project existing technology forward in a plausible way. | 108 |
| David Agus | We are finally entering an exciting time in medicine where we have the technology to custom-tailor treatment and preventive protocols just as we'd custom-tailor a suit or designer gown to one's individual body. But it all begins with you. You have to know yourself in a manner that you've probably never done before. | 108 |
| Godfrey Reggio | Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence. | 108 |
| Jason Reitman | I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting. | 108 |
| John Perry Barlow | The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. | 108 |
| John Sununu | The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed. | 108 |
| Martin Filler | The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects. | 108 |
| Pierre Schaeffer | The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change. | 108 |
| Timothy Murphy | We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government. | 108 |
| Sanjay Kumar | 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. | 108 |
| John Naisbitt | The more technology we introduce into society, the more people will aggregate, will want to be with other people: movies, rock concerts, shopping. | 108 |
| Mohammed Morsi | I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history. | 108 |
| Marshall McLuhan | 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. | 109 |
| Barton Gellman | 'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology. | 109 |
| Michael Porter | Technology has given us this wonderful opportunity to have low energy costs. We have to seize that, rather than keep debating and discussing and fighting over it. | 109 |
| Neil Postman | I am not a Luddite. I am suspicious of technology. I am perfectly aware of its benefits, but I also try to pay attention to some of the negative effects. | 109 |
| William Gibson | The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it. | 109 |
| Alan Kay | The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. | 109 |
| Alex Berenson | Of course, the discounting of future earnings should hurt all stocks. But it should hurt technology stocks more than others, because so many of them are valued at extremely high levels relative to their current earnings. | 109 |
| Astro Teller | To say a scientist is not at all responsible is wrong. But to say that someone who invents a piece of knowledge or technology is responsible for all future uses is ridiculous. It doesn't have to be that binary. | 109 |
| Esther Dyson | 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. | 109 |
| James Surowiecki | Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle. | 109 |
| Jason Silva | We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities. | 109 |
| Peter Guber | Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking. | 109 |
| Thomas Perez | Everything has changed in recent decades - the economy, technology, cultural attitudes, the demographics of the workforce, the role of women in society and the structure of the American family. It's about time our laws caught up. We watch 'Modern Family' on television, but we're still living by 'Leave It To Beaver' rules. | 109 |
| Tom Shadyac | The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; it's love - that one principle. | 109 |
| Aaron Koblin | As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways. | 109 |
| Annie Jacobsen | Many of the engineers I interviewed worked on reverse-engineering technology. It's a hallmark of Area 51. | 109 |
| Bill Keller | Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price. | 109 |
| Colin Angle | In the smart home of the future, there should be a robot designed to talk to you. With enough display technology, connectivity, and voice recognition, this human-interface robot or head-of-household robot will serve as a portal to the digital domain. It becomes your interface to your robot-enabled home. | 109 |
| David Cronenberg | I see technology as being an extension of the human body. | 109 |
| Jaron Lanier | Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone. | 109 |
| John Perry Barlow | We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. | 109 |
| K. Eric Drexler | 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. | 109 |
| Marc Ostrofsky | Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company - from a one-person agency to a small firm, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspect of Internet-based businesses. | 109 |
| Ralph Merkle | If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them. | 109 |
| Soulja Boy | When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first. | 109 |
| James Harden | Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now. | 109 |
| Arne Duncan | I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field. | 109 |
| Jesse James Garrett | Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring. | 109 |
| Albert Einstein | It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. | 110 |
| Dan Brown | For me, a good thriller must teach me something about the real world. Thrillers like 'Coma,' 'The Hunt for Red October' and 'The Firm' all captivated me by providing glimpses into realms about which I knew very little - medical science, submarine technology and the law. | 110 |
| Dennis Ritchie | For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace. | 110 |
| Freeman Dyson | What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford. | 110 |
| Howard Rheingold | The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats, have long been engaged in a productive debate about the consequences of technology. | 110 |
| Huston Smith | I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That is not true. And I think I may have introduced a word which has now caught on quite a bit, scientism. Science is good. It simply reports a discovery. | 110 |
| Lewis Thomas | I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way. | 110 |
| Marina Abramovic | Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented. | 110 |
| Vinod Khosla | The only way you multiply resources is with technology. To really affect poverty, energy, health, education, or anything else - there is no other way. | 110 |
| William Gibson | It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information. | 110 |
| Zygmunt Bauman | We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed. | 110 |
| Bill Owens | 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. | 110 |
| James Cameron | 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. | 110 |
| John McAfee | Hackers rarely have full knowledge of the technology stack of a target. | 110 |
| Cathy McMorris Rodgers | 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. | 110 |
| K. Eric Drexler | 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. | 110 |
| Martin Gore | Technology is a bit of a double-edged sword. Used right, it's a wonderful tool, but unfortunately, it makes it easier for a lot of mediocre people to get really crappy ideas out. | 110 |
| Rosalind Wiseman | Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a girl on her laptop in Texas can see photos and cell phone video in real time that a young college student has posted of a rally he's at in Iran. | 110 |
| Jeremy Rifkin | What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether. | 110 |
| Janet Napolitano | 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). | 110 |
| John Naisbitt | Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature. | 110 |
| Jonas Mekas | Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf. | 110 |
| Robert Trout | 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. | 110 |
| Alan Greenspan | Chinese productivity is the highest in the world but the way they do it is by borrowing the technology from abroad, either by joint ventures or other means. | 111 |
| Eliot Spitzer | Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant. | 111 |
| Eric Schmidt | 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. | 111 |
| Fred Durst | I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security. | 111 |
| Hugh Grant | 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. | 111 |
| Jackie Chan | Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. | 111 |
| Marc Benioff | The only constant in the technology industry is change. | 111 |
| Marissa Mayer | Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate. | 111 |
| Michael Porter | 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. | 111 |
| Neil Postman | If students get a sound education in the history, social effects and psychological biases of technology, they may grow to be adults who use technology rather than be used by it. | 111 |
| Nicholas A. Christakis | What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions. | 111 |
| Philip Zimbardo | 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. | 111 |
| Prince Charles | It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything - until, that is, it comes to climate science. | 111 |
| Robin S. Sharma | Cell phones, mobile e-mail, and all the other cool and slick gadgets can cause massive losses in our creative output and overall productivity. | 111 |
| Yann Arthus-Bertrand | I'm not an expert when it comes to technology, but what changed things for me was autofocus. I used to have to throw away half my pictures because it was so difficult to get the focus right. | 111 |
| Adolf Galland | This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about. | 111 |
| Damian Marley | It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago. With spirituality comes morals, a better way of thinking. | 111 |
| Erik Qualman | At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services. | 111 |
| Jason Silva | Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us. | 111 |
| Javier Bardem | 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. | 111 |
| Kathryn Minshew | So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs. | 111 |
| Laura Marling | I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same. | 111 |
| Paul Graham | It's hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn't yet been duplicated by technology. | 111 |
| Ron Fournier | Don't underestimate questions from the crowd; technology has made voters more informed than ever. | 111 |
| Sarah McLachlan | We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings. | 111 |
| Brad D. Smith | Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn. | 111 |
| David Cronenberg | 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. | 111 |
| Harry Seidler | 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. | 111 |
| John Sununu | 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. | 111 |
| Maurice Saatchi | In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It's the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind. | 111 |
| James Gleick | It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad. | 111 |
| James Howard Kunstler | Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of technology and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism - all of this propels us toward the realm where souls abandon all hope. | 111 |
| Jeffrey Sachs | Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else. | 111 |
| Karl Popper | Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. | 112 |
| Bob Iger | I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets. | 112 |
| Gary Numan | I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing. | 112 |
| Heather Brooke | CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance. | 112 |
| Jesse Ventura | Disabled people need more invested in their education, housing, job training, transportation, assistive technology, and independent-living facilities. Governments earn back this investment - and more - by making people with disabilities economically productive citizens. | 112 |
| Najib Razak | I think the rise of China is inevitable, because China has moved from a low-cost producer, at low levels of technology, to higher levels of technology, and because it's very competitive, even in some high-tech products they offer at very competitive rates - much lower than their competitors. | 112 |
| Niklas Zennstrom | The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century. | 112 |
| Octavio Paz | Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out. | 112 |
| Simon Wiesenthal | The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind. | 112 |
| Alan Kay | Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born. | 112 |
| Alfonso Cuaron | A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid. | 112 |
| Daniel H. Wilson | These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow. | 112 |
| Eugene Cernan | I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge. | 112 |
| Grace Gealey | Connecting with people in person is so important. To look in the eyes of our girls and let them know that you really do support them transcends the impersonal connection of technology. | 112 |
| John Sculley | Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have. | 112 |
| Lynda Resnick | Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but even such inventions as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod have rocked their respective industries by changing how we entertain ourselves. | 112 |
| Michael Morpurgo | It is the child's understanding that teaches the adults the way of the future. They're still doing it today with modern technology. | 112 |
| Aimee Mullins | You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact. | 112 |
| Burt Rutan | I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense. | 112 |
| Christian Lous Lange | Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. | 112 |
| J. J. Abrams | I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. | 112 |
| Bob Ney | 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. | 112 |
| Ron Kind | 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. | 112 |
| Dan Millman | 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. | 112 |
| John Charles Polanyi | 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. | 112 |
| Stockard Channing | 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. | 112 |
| Justin Rosenstein | Whether you're a programming prodigy or the office manager holding it all together, technology empowers small groups of passionate people with an astonishing degree of leverage to make the world a better place. | 112 |
| Carl Sagan | All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. | 113 |
| Tim Burton | In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists. | 113 |
| Clayton Christensen | India's prosperity is sectioned by geography, such as in Bangalore, where the information technology industry is prominent. Because they have a conduit out of India, competing in the world by the Internet, it's not regulated in corrupt ways, and it is very prosperous. | 113 |
| David Bohm | 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. | 113 |
| Edward R. Murrow | A satellite has no conscience. | 113 |
| Frank Abagnale | Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively. | 113 |
| Fred Wilson | New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station you use to listen to him? Ultimately, technology becomes a commodity, and content - real, true branded content - becomes more valuable. | 113 |
| Satya Nadella | Without a doubt, I wholeheartedly support programs at Microsoft and in the industry that bring more women into technology and close the pay gap. | 113 |
| Tim O'Reilly | A lot of my energy is going to Code for America, Jen Pahlka's non-profit startup. We're doing a lot of great work teaching government how to apply technology and changing the culture of government. | 113 |
| Tom Clancy | 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. | 113 |
| Ursula K. Le Guin | If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. | 113 |
| Angela Ahrendts | You're going to see relationships with technology across anything that's brand. I don't care if that's in home or what you wear. I just think it's a new fact of life. | 113 |
| Eric Alterman | We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality. | 113 |
| Larry Wall | Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. | 113 |
| Matt Mullenweg | When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be. | 113 |
| Meg Whitman | What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good. | 113 |
| Sherry Turkle | There are moments of opportunity for families; moments they need to put technology away. These include: no phones or texting during meals. No phones or texting when parents pick up children at school - a child is looking to make eye contact with a parent! | 113 |
| Tadashi Yanai | We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world. | 113 |
| Annie Jacobsen | With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught. | 113 |
| Barry Commoner | The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over. | 113 |
| Ramez Naam | Computing technology started out as number-crunching. | 113 |
| Susan Wojcicki | Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment. | 113 |
| James Gleick | Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world. | 113 |
| Major Owens | 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. | 113 |
| James Chanos | It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again. | 113 |
| Richard Dawkins | 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. | 114 |
| Dean Kamen | 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. | 114 |
| Jon Kabat-Zinn | I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection. To call what happens 'the placebo effect' is just to give a name to something we don't understand. | 114 |
| Larry Page | I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly. | 114 |
| Lawrence M. Krauss | We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace with technology. | 114 |
| Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. | The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation unless you integrate Web technology into the processes by which you run your business. | 114 |
| LZ Granderson | With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV. | 114 |
| Reed Hastings | Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use. | 114 |
| Tom Clancy | 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? | 114 |
| Tony Hawk | Technology has allowed me to reach my fans directly. Social media: it has been a complete revolution of how to interact, promote and share things. | 114 |
| Wendy Kopp | All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law - everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children. | 114 |
| Anne M. Mulcahy | Xerox's innovative technology and service offerings - delivered through an expanding distribution system with a lean and flexible business model - continue to solidify our market leadership, driving consistently strong earnings performance. | 114 |
| James Hansen | With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years. | 114 |
| Matt Mullenweg | Technology is best when it brings people together. | 114 |
| Meg Whitman | 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. | 114 |
| Mohamed ElBaradei | 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. | 114 |
| Richard Lamm | Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law of diminishing returns' in health care, where we are often doing more and more, with higher and higher technology, at more and more cost, for less and less benefit. | 114 |
| Steve Buyer | 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. | 114 |
| Kevin Mitnick | A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted. | 115 |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupery | The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. | 115 |
| Al Franken | Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone. | 115 |
| Andy Rooney | Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose. | 115 |
| Anne Wojcicki | Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human endeavor from education to transportation to medicine, genetics will undoubtedly benefit people everywhere in ways we can't even imagine but know will surely occur. | 115 |
| Christopher Nolan | For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable. | 115 |
| Dr. Dre | I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know? | 115 |
| Frank Abagnale | What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. | 115 |
| Jack Ma | I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes. | 115 |
| Niels Bohr | 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. | 115 |
| Alexander McCall Smith | Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology. | 115 |
| Anne Wilson Schaef | 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. | 115 |
| Martin Rees | In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror. | 115 |
| Pratibha Patil | I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth. | 115 |
| Richard Lamm | Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system. | 115 |
| Robert Lanza | In fact when you combine stem cell technology with the technology known as tissue engineering you can actually grow up entire organs, so as you suggest that sometime in the future you get in an auto accident and lose your kidney, we'd simply take a few skin cells and grow you up a new kidney. In fact this has already been done. | 115 |
| Shashi Tharoor | I'm not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement. | 115 |
| Abraham Verghese | My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual. | 115 |
| Brendan Fraser | As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor. | 115 |
| Diane Sawyer | 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. | 115 |
| Maggie Q | I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that. | 115 |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | All the traditional STEM fields, the science, technology, engineering, and math fields, are stoked when you dream big in an agency such as NASA. | 116 |
| Stephen Covey | 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. | 116 |
| Dean Kamen | New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that. | 116 |
| Dick Cheney | I was convinced that eventually I would die of heart disease, that we'd run out of time and out of treatment, the technology wouldn't keep ahead of my disease. And now all of the sudden, when you get the new heart, your life opens up before you again. | 116 |
| Geoff Mulgan | The smug complacency of technology adverts disguises a pretty mixed picture, with too many people not connected, too many passive users of technologies designed for interactive, and far too much talk about empowerment but far too little action to make it happen. | 116 |
| Jimmy Buffett | I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. | 116 |
| Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. | 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. | 116 |
| Muhammad Yunus | Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things. | 116 |
| Pope Paul VI | Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. | 116 |
| Seth Shostak | Clearly, unless thinking beings inevitably wipe themselves out soon after developing technology, extraterrestrial intelligence could often be millions or billions of years in advance of us. We're the galaxy's noodling newbies. | 116 |
| Tony Blair | Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.' | 116 |
| James Comey | The benefits of our increasingly digital lives have been accompanied by new dangers, and we have been forced to consider how criminals and terrorists might use advances in technology to their advantage. | 116 |
| Jaron Lanier | What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means. | 116 |
| Evgeny Morozov | Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a browser - was particularly vicious. Claiming it was buggy and insecure, Jobs banned it from the iPad. | 117 |
| Geoff Mulgan | There is incredible potential for digital technology in and beyond the classroom, but it is vital to rethink how learning is organised if we are to reap the rewards. | 117 |
| George Osborne | Nuclear power is cost-competitive with other low-carbon technology and is a crucial part of our energy mix, along with new sources of power such as shale gas. | 117 |
| Lech Walesa | Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions. | 117 |
| Marc Andreessen | I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying. | 117 |
| Rupert Murdoch | Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere. | 117 |
| Simon Wiesenthal | Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster. | 117 |
| Tyler Cowen | Some Google employees have their self-driving vehicles take them to work. These car robots don't look like something from 'The Jetsons'; the driverless features on these cars are a bunch of sensors, wires, and software. This technology 'works.' | 117 |
| Wendy Kopp | Technology has enormous potential to address educational needs more efficiently, help teachers improve their performance, and enrich and individualize student learning. | 117 |
| William S. Burroughs | The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body. | 117 |
| Alison Gopnik | Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention. | 117 |
| Malcolm Turnbull | Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. America's political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind. | 117 |
| Mitch Kapor | Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider. | 117 |
| Shawn Amos | Technology has the benefit of being easily scalable. A few weeks or months of coding can result in solutions that reap huge benefits. The global success of Facebook, Twitter, and Google are all triumphs of technology. | 117 |
| John Sununu | 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. | 117 |
| John Stuart Mill | It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. | 118 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety. | 118 |
| Elbert Hubbard | One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. | 118 |
| Christina Aguilera | You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me. | 118 |
| Marlo Thomas | Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person. | 118 |
| Michael Porter | The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change. | 118 |
| Scott Adams | Technology will definitely solve all our problems, but in the process it will create brand new ones. But that's O.K. because the most you can expect from life is to get to solve better and better problems. | 118 |
| Tim Berners-Lee | The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information. | 118 |
| Vivek Wadhwa | One of the biggest problems that software developers face is that technology changes rapidly. It is very hard to stay current. | 118 |
| William J. Clinton | 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. | 118 |
| Aaron Swartz | Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously. | 118 |
| Henry Petroski | Because they are so humbled by their creations, engineers are naturally conservative in their expectations of technology. They know that the perfect system is the stuff of science fiction, not of engineering fact, and so everything must be treated with respect. | 118 |
| James Cameron | Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing. | 118 |
| John Mackey | The world is getting more connected through technology and travel. Cuisines are evolving. Some people are scared of globalization, but I think people will always take pride in cultural heritage. | 118 |
| Mark Skousen | Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes. | 118 |
| Henry David Thoreau | Men have become the tools of their tools. | 119 |
| Alvin Toffler | Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible. | 119 |
| Che Guevara | Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature. | 119 |
| Fred Wilson | The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services. | 119 |
| Gabe Newell | The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs. | 119 |
| Norman Borlaug | 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. | 119 |
| Ringo Starr | I love the modern technology now. | 119 |
| Wendell Berry | The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment. | 119 |
| Brittany Murphy | With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting. | 119 |
| Eliezer Yudkowsky | Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle. | 119 |
| Judith Martin | Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one. | 119 |
| Martin Rees | I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied. | 119 |
| Arthur C. Clarke | Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. | 120 |
| Frank Miller | What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen. | 120 |
| Howard Rheingold | When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology. | 120 |
| Marc Andreessen | Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle. | 120 |
| Marianne Williamson | Whatever it is that leads human beings to hate, to destroy, and to kill has taken on a collective force like never before, as technology and globalization now give it the capacity to not just strike, but to strike us all, together, as one. | 120 |
| Matt Groening | If I have one technology tip of the day, it's this: No matter how good the video on YouTube is, don't read the comments, just don't, because it will make you hate all humans. | 120 |
| Myles Munroe | It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development. | 120 |
| Nolan Bushnell | I always loved both 'Breakout' and 'Asteroids' - I thought they were really good games. There was another game called 'Tempest' that I thought was really cool, and it represented a really hard technology. It's probably one of the only colour-vector screens that was used in the computer graphics field at that time. | 120 |
| Jason Bateman | I just think technology is pretty amazing. Like all things that are great, you have to be responsible about how much you use it. | 120 |
| Richard Lamm | I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a world of limited resources, we have a larger duty to a 10-year-old than to a 90-year-old. | 120 |
| Sundar Pichai | For me, it matters that we drive technology as an equalizing force, as an enabler for everyone around the world. Which is why I do want Google to see, push, and invest more in making sure computing is more accessible, connectivity is more accessible. | 120 |
| Jaron Lanier | Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught. | 120 |
| John Battelle | We speak of 'software eating the world,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts remain for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and trees. We lack a metaphor that hits home. | 120 |
| Bill Gates | Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. | 121 |
| Alvin Toffler | The great growling engine of change - technology. | 121 |
| Ben Horowitz | With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention. | 121 |
| Denis Leary | My only worry about tweeting and modern technology is how it has crept into even the darkest corners of the absolute global village we live in. | 121 |
| Ginni Rometty | What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues. | 121 |
| Rebecca MacKinnon | When Tim Berners-Lee invented the computer code that led to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1990, he did not try to patent or charge fees for the use of his technology. | 121 |
| Richard Rogers | 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. | 121 |
| Simon Mainwaring | Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide. | 121 |
| Tim Berners-Lee | You affect the world by what you browse. | 121 |
| Tony Hawk | You just have to adapt, and you have to realize where people are going to actually play their games. It used to just be Nintendo and PlayStation, and now it's all kind of devices. So you've got to learn to adapt what you know from the technology into those areas... I've been wanting to do a mobile game for a long time. | 121 |
| Alfred North Whitehead | Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them. | 122 |
| Anne Hathaway | 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. | 122 |
| Corey Taylor | I think people are tired of fake music, man. And there's a lot of it. Technology has reached the point where any boob can walk into a studio and with a little AutoTuning you can have a hit song. I think it's pathetic. | 122 |
| Ralph Nader | People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans. | 122 |
| Talib Kweli | You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature. | 122 |
| Vint Cerf | 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. | 122 |
| Wendy Kopp | Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology. | 122 |
| Laurie Anderson | 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. | 122 |
| Marsha Blackburn | Business models change. As technology processes, business models change. | 122 |
| Richard P. Feynman | For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. | 123 |
| Barbara Kruger | What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up. | 123 |
| Charles Duhigg | Technology giants have taken advantage of tax codes written for an industrial age. | 123 |
| Mark McKinnon | Technology and social media have brought power back to the people. | 123 |
| Nicolas Cage | I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it. | 123 |
| Peter Jackson | I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up. | 123 |
| Queen Rania of Jordan | We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East. | 123 |
| Tom Hodgkinson | All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life. | 123 |
| Twiggy | I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary. | 123 |
| Martin Parr | Modern technology has taken the angst out of achieving the perfect shot. For me, the only thing that counts is the idea behind the image: what you want to see and what you're trying to say. The idea is crucial. You have to think of something you want to say and expand upon it. | 123 |
| Ryan Holmes | As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered. | 123 |
| Jaron Lanier | I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. | 123 |
| Alan Perlis | I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it. | 123 |
| Peter Drucker | The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. | 124 |
| Larry Page | Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change. | 124 |
| Nolan Bushnell | Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile. | 124 |
| Tom Wolfe | There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology... the new way of killing time. | 124 |
| Martin Rees | The scientific community should work as hard as possible to address major issues that affect our everyday lives such as climate change, infectious diseases and counterterrorism; in particular, 'clean energy' research deserves far higher priority. And science and technology are the prime routes to tackling these issues. | 124 |
| Richard Lamm | We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs unless we challenge the over-emphasis on medical research, specialists and technology and put more emphasis on delivering good, everyday basic medicine to those who now have none. | 124 |
| Carl Sagan | We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. | 125 |
| Demetri Martin | The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly. | 125 |
| R. Buckminster Fuller | I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented. | 125 |
| Carly Fiorina | 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. | 125 |
| Condoleezza Rice | 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. | 125 |
| Dean Kamen | Technology is how we create wealth, how we cure diseases, how we'll build an environment that's sustainable and also gives people the capacity to pull more out of this world and still leave it better than when they found it. | 125 |
| Thomas Friedman | We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets. | 125 |
| Werner Herzog | 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. | 125 |
| Marshall McLuhan | 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. | 126 |
| Brian Greene | Very much, string theory is simply a work in progress. What we are inching toward every day are predictions that within the realm of current technology we hope to test. It's not like we're working on a theory that is permanently beyond experiment. That would be philosophy. | 126 |
| Larry Page | We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day. | 126 |
| Jason Silva | I make short films, little documentaries, about the co-evolution of humans and technology. | 126 |
| Mohamed ElBaradei | Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon. | 126 |
| Steve Jobs | Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them. | 201 |
| Arnold H. Glasow | What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions. | 201 |
| James Dyson | Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. | 201 |
| Marissa Mayer | I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines. | 201 |
| N. R. Narayana Murthy | Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc. | 201 |
| Nicholas Kristof | Technology companies must constantly weigh ethical decisions: Where should Facebook set its privacy defaults, and should it tolerate glimpses of nudity? Should Twitter close accounts that seem sympathetic to terrorists? How should Google handle sex and violence, or defamatory articles? | 201 |
| Tom Peters | For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce. | 201 |
| Vivek Wadhwa | In the technology world, you have to execute fast or you're out of business. | 201 |
| Jason Silva | Technology sometimes gets a bad rap because of certain consequences that it's had on the environment and unforeseen problems, but we shouldn't use it as an excuse to reject our tools; rather, we should decide that we need to make better tools to solve the problems caused by the initial tools in a progressive wave of innovation. | 201 |
| Evgeny Morozov | If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense. | 202 |
| Oriana Fallaci | What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology. | 202 |
| Simon Mainwaring | Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace. | 202 |
| Wendell Berry | The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology. | 202 |
| William Gibson | As a writer of fiction who deals with technology, I necessarily deal with the history of technology and the history of technologically induced social change. I roam up and down it in a kind of special way because I roam down it into history, which is invariably itself a speculative affair. | 202 |
| J. G. Ballard | 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. | 202 |
| Elon Musk | There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions. | 203 |
| Carly Fiorina | You know, I believe that technology is the great leveler. Technology permits anybody to play. And in some ways, I think technology - it's not only a great tool for democratization, but it's a great tool for eliminating prejudice and advancing meritocracies. | 203 |
| Christopher Lee | When I first read 'Lord of the Rings,' I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time, the technology wasn't there; there was no such thing as CGI. | 203 |
| Christopher Nolan | But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want. | 203 |
| Clayton Christensen | There just isn't anything more invigorating than to read an article or hear about an entrepreneur using the term 'disruptive technology' that makes no reference to me as the source. When it's clear they really got the idea and they use it as if it were in everyday parlance, that's the ultimate triumph. | 203 |
| Eric Schmidt | In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it. | 203 |
| Lenny Kravitz | 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. | 203 |
| Herbie Hancock | It's easy to get sidetracked with technology, and that is the danger, but ultimately you have to see what works with the music and what doesn't. In a lot of cases, less is more. In most cases, less is more. | 204 |
| James Cameron | I believe 3D is inevitable because it's about aligning our entertainment systems to our sensory system. We all have two eyes; we all see the world in 3D. And it's natural for us to want our entertainment in 3D as well. It's just getting the technology - it's really more the business model than the technology piece. We've solved the technology. | 204 |
| Douglas Adams | We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them. | 205 |
| Mark Zuckerberg | There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on. | 205 |
| Marlee Matlin | YouTube is akin to having my own network. | 205 |
| Nolan Bushnell | We had some really powerful technology - Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that. | 205 |
| Tim Berners-Lee | We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes. | 205 |
| James Altucher | Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class. | 205 |
| Ben Shapiro | Why should Congresspeople have to visit D.C.? Thanks to Skype, meetings are possible across the country. Thanks to email, communications are simple. And we've had the technology to vote from afar for decades. Why should we have backroom deals made over cigars thousands of miles distant from those who are affected by those deals? | 206 |
| Marc Andreessen | An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network. | 206 |
| Peter Diamandis | As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth. | 206 |
| Evgeny Morozov | Is there anything more self-defeating than using technology to free up your time - so that you can learn how to do an even better job at it? | 207 |
| Nathan Myhrvold | If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale. | 207 |
| Rebecca MacKinnon | Despite the Obama administration's proclaimed commitment to global Internet freedom, the executive branch is not transparent about the types and capabilities of surveillance technologies it is sourcing and purchasing - or about what other governments are purchasing the same technology. | 207 |
| Margaret Atwood | I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back. | 208 |
| Steve Martin | Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been. | 208 |
| Al Franken | Technology is an incredible tool - it connects people to each other, creates jobs all over the world, and makes life easier for millions of Americans. | 208 |
| George Lucas | Everyone seems to think that digital technology devoids the medium of content, but that is not true at all. If anything, it broadens the content. | 208 |
| Laurence J. Peter | Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. | 208 |
| Linus Torvalds | I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.' | 208 |
| Nancy Gibbs | Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do. | 208 |
| Alan Moore | I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish. | 208 |
| David Hockney | I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will. | 209 |
| Peter Diamandis | I think we're heading towards a world of what I call 'technological socialism.' Where technology - not the government or the state - will begin to take care of us. Technology will provide our healthcare for free. The best education in the world - for free. | 209 |
| Alan Moore | Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters. | 209 |
| Elon Musk | SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people. | 210 |
| Buzz Aldrin | The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world. | 210 |
| Charles B. Rangel | In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day. | 210 |
| Michio Kaku | The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door. | 210 |
| will.i.am | As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education... that's the thing that worries me. | 210 |
| Keith Richards | To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing. | 211 |
| Diane Ackerman | I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders. | 211 |
| Linus Torvalds | Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. | 211 |
| Nancy Pelosi | 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. | 211 |
| Vint Cerf | You don't have to be young to learn about technology. You have to feel young. | 211 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. | 212 |
| Dave Grohl | When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear. | 212 |
| Evgeny Morozov | Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever. | 212 |
| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real historical movement - one of the great movements which shape and represent their epoch. | 212 |
| Muhammad Yunus | While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters. | 212 |
| Tim Berners-Lee | 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. | 212 |
| Vint Cerf | With Internet technology you can capture a photo, a quote, or an article, store it locally and upload it into the Net more than once, if you wish, to multiple sites. Can you imagine then forcing the search engines to somehow not index that information? | 212 |
| John F. Kennedy | The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life. | 213 |
| will.i.am | Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc. | 213 |
| Ha-Joon Chang | Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It's not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors. | 213 |
| Bill Nye | It's important that our children are raised to be educated, well-rounded tax-paying citizens that understand the importance of technology and science. | 214 |
| Buzz Aldrin | For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math. | 214 |
| Nicolas Cage | I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear. | 214 |
| Simon Mainwaring | Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange. | 214 |
| Jonathan Sacks | Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face. | 214 |
| Mark Zuckerberg | The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music. | 215 |
| Carly Fiorina | We need to be very well aware of the fact that China and Russia are using technology to attack us, just as ISIS is using technology to recruit those who would murder American citizens. | 215 |
| John Lasseter | Art challenges technology, but technology inspires the art. | 215 |
| Robert Redford | The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story. | 215 |
| Thomas Sowell | The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite. | 216 |
| Ben Carson | There's no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And there's no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics. | 216 |
| Alan Watts | Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. | 217 |
| Martin Rees | Advances in technology - hugely beneficial though they are - render us vulnerable in new ways. For instance, our interconnected world depends on elaborate networks: electric power grids, air traffic control, international finance, just-in-time delivery, and so forth. | 217 |
| Buzz Aldrin | There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly. | 218 |
| John Lasseter | Every technology that comes into filmmaking is first a gimmick. Think about sound with 'The Jazz Singer' or the first colour or surround sound - it takes a while for filmmakers to understand how to use it. | 218 |
| George Lucas | All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using charcoal on a wall or designed the proscenium arch, that's technology. | 219 |
| Theodor Adorno | Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. | 220 |
| Nassim Nicholas Taleb | The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely. | 220 |
| William Shatner | I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology. | 220 |
| Karl Marx | 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. | 221 |
| David Suzuki | With the world's human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we can't control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose. | 221 |
| Michael Leunig | I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life. | 221 |
| Steven Spielberg | My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do. | 222 |
| George Lucas | Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media. | 222 |
| Bill Gates | If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG. | 223 |
| Marshall McLuhan | 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.' | 223 |
| Tom Hanks | Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week. | 223 |
| Vint Cerf | Internet and government is Topic A in every nation, all around the world. There is the question of getting the Internet built. That involves persuading government to have regulatory policies. It involves new technology to bring the Internet to rural places. | 223 |
| Prince | Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you. | 224 |
| Margaret Atwood | Communications technology changes possibilities for communication, but that doesn't mean it changes the inherited structure of the brain. So you may think that you're addicted to online reading, but as soon as it isn't available anymore, your brain will pretty immediately adjust to other forms of reading. It's a habit like all habits. | 224 |
| Ashton Kutcher | I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that. | 225 |
| Kevin Mitnick | I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology. | 226 |
| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. | 302 |
| Tom Hanks | Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal. | 302 |
| Margaret Atwood | People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make. | 303 |
| Marshall McLuhan | It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame. | 303 |
| Penn Jillette | My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15. | 304 |
| Steven Pinker | Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with. | 304 |
| Noam Chomsky | China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial - more advanced industrial centers - Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe - and it basically assembles them. | 305 |
| Steve Jobs | The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we've always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts. | 308 |
| Ashton Kutcher | The film industry brings people together, and so does technology. I see them as similar platforms. | 308 |
| Douglas Coupland | When you think about Twitter and you think what a dumb stupid throwaway technology, and then you have the Iranian elections and it actually saves the day - you can't prejudge technologies now because they have effects you may not have intended. | 308 |
| Ban Ki-moon | Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration. | 309 |
| Gloria Steinem | If technology and medicine are used by women to have children or not to have children or to have healthier children - that's one thing. But if it's used to say, 'You're not a real woman unless you have a child; therefore, take all these dangerous hormones and have one at 54,' then it's another story. | 311 |
| Jeff Bezos | I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category. | 311 |
| Michio Kaku | Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we will understand dark matter, perhaps test string theory, find planets which can harbor life, and maybe have Brain 2.0, i.e. our consciousness on a disk which will survive even after we die. | 311 |
| Simon Mainwaring | Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world. | 311 |
| Elon Musk | My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-fuel on Mars - this is very important - so you don't have to carry the return fuel when you go there. | 312 |
| Thomas Sowell | 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. | 313 |
| David Suzuki | There are more humans than all of the rabbits on earth. There are more of us than all the wildebeests, than all the rats, than all the mice. We are the most numerous mammal on the planet. But because we're not like rabbits or rats or mice, we have technology, we have a consumptive appetite, we have a global economy. | 313 |
| Michio Kaku | Leaders in China and India realize that science and technology lead to success and wealth. But many countries in the West graduate students into the unemployment line by teaching skills that were necessary to live in 1950. | 314 |
| Stephen Covey | Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for. | 315 |
| Steven Spielberg | Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way. | 315 |
| Simon Mainwaring | Social technology gives leaders a vital new platform with which to connect their companies to the myriad stakeholders who have an interest in their well being. | 315 |
| Bill Gates | The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking. | 316 |
| Howard Schultz | We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information. | 317 |
| Steve Jobs | The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment. | 318 |
| Kevin Mitnick | Some people think technology has the answers. | 318 |
| Christopher Hitchens | 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. | 321 |
| David Bowie | The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever. | 321 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | 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? | 321 |
| Douglas Coupland | Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity. | 321 |
| Steve Jobs | I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all. | 323 |
| Steven Spielberg | In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era. | 323 |
| Douglas Coupland | It feels wistful to imagine a time when people didn't go about their daily routine with the assumption that at any moment another massive media technology will be dumped on us by some geek in California. | 323 |
| Steve Jobs | I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent. | 324 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. | 325 |
| Deepak Chopra | Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that. | 402 |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close. | 402 |
| Richard Dawkins | Science - or the products of science like technology - is just a way of achieving something real, something that happens, something that works. | 402 |
| Elon Musk | An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us. | 403 |
| Yoko Ono | The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk. | 404 |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology. | 406 |
| Elon Musk | If you look at our current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilisations, and I mean strange in a bad way. And it could be that there are a whole lot of dead, one-planet civilisations. | 407 |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature. | 407 |
| Billy Graham | I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world. | 414 |
| Johnny Depp | Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old-school a brain to be able to figure it out. I'm dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs. | 415 |
| Steve Jobs | It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people. | 417 |
| Maya Angelou | While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man. | 419 |
| Elon Musk | If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive. | 420 |
| Steve Jobs | I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do. | 422 |
| Elon Musk | I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company. | 422 |
| Elon Musk | Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it. | 424 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. | 424 |
| Bill Gates | The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life. | 502 |
| Richard Dawkins | I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology. | 502 |
| Dalai Lama | I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion. | 503 |
| Elon Musk | I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?' | 515 |
| Stephen Hawking | Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. | 516 |
| Billy Graham | The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it. | 520 |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | Innovations in science and technology are the engines of the 21st-century economy; if you care about the wealth and health of your nation tomorrow, then you'd better rethink how you allocate taxes to fund science. The federal budget needs to recognize this. | 607 |
| Noam Chomsky | In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it. | 620 |
| Henry Rollins | With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad. | 705 |
| Bill Gates | Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students. | 707 |
| Bill Gates | Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses - it's progressing. Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. | 712 |
| Oscar Wilde | The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. | 812 |
| Barack Obama | First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman? | 821 |
| Noam Chomsky | Well before September 11, it was understood that with modern technology, the rich and powerful will lose their near monopoly of the means of violence and can expect to suffer atrocities on home soil. | 826 |
| Bill Gates | There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable. | 1012 |
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