Technology Quotes

"I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement"

Brian Eno, Musician

"We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space"

Richard Dawkins, Scientist

"What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"We must become Icelanders in football, Israelis in defending our land, Japanese in technology"

Volodymyr Zelensky, President

"Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement"

Christopher Bond, Politician

"Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today"

Jared Diamond, Author

"Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future"

Marc Morial, Politician

"In my column series "The Main Thing," I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate - both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated"

Steve Case, Businessman

"I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both"

John Poindexter, Public Servant

"But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe"

Richard Curtis, Writer

"So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers"

Thomas Dolby, Musician

"I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs"

John Warnock, Scientist

"Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content"

John Dykstra, Scientist

"The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day"

Jam Master Jay, Musician

"Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all"

Ed Markey, Politician

"We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level"

Ian Jackson, Scientist

"Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists"

Mitchell Baker, Lawyer

"There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry"

Mark Rydell, Director

"Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content"

Steve Crocker, Businessman

"Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships"

Michael Dell, Businessman

"As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis"

Tipper Gore, Celebrity

"Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!"

Terri Windling, Artist

"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday"

Dennis Gabor, Scientist

"What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done"

Tim O'Reilly

"Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools"

Brian McKnight, Musician

"One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn"

Pete Waterman, Producer

"Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down"

Michael Crichton, Author

"I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States"

John Poindexter, Public Servant

"To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars"

James Daly, Actor

"Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace"

Ron Kind, Politician

"Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits"

Lou Gerstner, Businessman

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