Technology Quotes

"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

"Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

"We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way"

Al Jarreau, Musician

"There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters"

Tara Strong, Actress

"Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology"

Karl Popper, Philosopher

"We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

"Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world"

Jeffery Deaver, Writer

"We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards"

Bill Owens, Politician

"Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that"

David Cronenberg, Director

"I see technology as being an extension of the human body"

David Cronenberg, Director

"Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true"

Niels Bohr, Physicist

"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field"

Stephen Covey, Businessman

"We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race"

John Naisbitt, Businessman

"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"

Erik Qualman, Author

"New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else"

Tom Holt, Novelist

"Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology"

Miguel de Icaza, Scientist

"Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality"

Jackie Chan, Actor

"I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology"

Lars von Trier, Director

"In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being"

John Sexton, Educator

"People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap"

Bob Graham, Politician

"There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"Life is about family and technology"

Mark Goddard, Actor

"Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste"

Rick Danko, Musician

"I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology"

John Sexton, Educator

"The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it"

Suzanne Fields

"I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology"

Major Owens, Politician

"Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included"

Major Owens, Politician

"We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

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