Technology Quotes

"The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it"

Neil Armstrong, Astronaut

"I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money, or cost them so much money if they miss it, that they are going to fuel the object revolution"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"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"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

"Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality"

John Hutton, Educator

"Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion"

Timothy Garton Ash, Author

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons"

R. Buckminster Fuller, Inventor

"The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change"

Michael Porter, Educator

"If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems"

Michael Porter, Educator

"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"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on"

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor

"My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

"Any powerful technology can be abused"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

"But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

"Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise"

K. Eric Drexler, Scientist

"What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?"

Matt Drudge, Journalist

"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year"

Russ Carnahan, Politician

"Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years"

John von Neumann, Mathematician

"And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction"

Lester B. Pearson, Politician

"Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand"

Issey Miyake, Designer

"A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages"

Herman Kahn, Scientist

"Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average"

William J. Clinton, President

"The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction"

Lord Robertson, Diplomat

"But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

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