Technology Quotes

"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

"Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo"

Eric Schmidt, Businessman

"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

"The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"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

"Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich"

Richard Ernst, Scientist

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

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families"

Mike Fitzpatrick, Politician

"I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years"

Major Owens, Politician

"We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience"

Major Owens, Politician

"I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology"

Major Owens, Politician

"Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools"

Major Owens, Politician

"With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future"

Jay Inslee, Politician

"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"

Erik Qualman, Author

"For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace"

Dennis Ritchie, Scientist

"We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere"

Major Owens, Politician

"Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned"

Major Owens, Politician

"Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities"

Major Owens, Politician

"Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water"

Jim Costa, Politician

"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"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"

Robert Lanza, Scientist

"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons"

Mordechai Vanunu, Scientist

"There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies"

Joe Morton, Actor

"Today, over half of China's undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America's undergraduates pursue these schools"

Cathy McMorris, Politician

"Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors"

Hugh Hopper, Musician

"I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

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