Technology Quotes

"Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us"

"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"

Ibrahim Babangida, Statesman

"A world technology means either a world government or world suicide"

Max Lerner, Journalist

"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"

Tracy Chapman, Musician

"I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price"

Walter Jon Williams, Writer

"People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age"

John Doerr, Businessman

"These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms"

Mick Taylor, Musician

"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"

Roy Romer, Politician

"I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"I have run large organizations, I know what it takes to create a healthy business climate, and I have more experience than Jerry Brown doing that. So it'll be a stark contrast, a career politician vs. someone who has met a payroll, gotten a return on investment, knows how to use technology to do more with less"

Meg Whitman, Businessman

"Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one"

Judith Martin, Author

"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"

Robert Redford, Actor

"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"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"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"

Mark Mothersbaugh, Musician

"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"

Michael K. Powell, Politician

"Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before"

Ron Kind, Politician

"Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept"

Jesse Eisenberg, Actor

"From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened"

Thomas Dolby, Musician

"The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

"It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"Technology has to be invented or adopted"

Jared Diamond, Author

"The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story"

Robert Redford, Actor

"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"

James Cameron, Director

"One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology"

John W. Thompson, Businessman

"People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies"

Paul Hawken, Environmentalist

"While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place"

John W. Thompson, Businessman

"Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"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"

John Warnock, Scientist

"I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier"

Sarah Zettel, Author

"First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation"

John W. Thompson, Businessman

"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"

Jackie Stewart, Athlete

"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"

Cordell Hull, Public Servant

"Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways"

Jesse James Garrett, Businessman

"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"

Gianni Agnelli, Businessman

"The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology"

John Spencer, Actor

"I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology"

Vernor Vinge, Writer

"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"

Jim Cramer, Businessman

"Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot"

Jam Master Jay, Musician

"You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website"

Dave Davies, Musician

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