Technology Quotes

"Some people think technology has the answers"

"If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal"

John Sununu, Politician

"Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right"

Nathan Deal, Politician

"Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes"

David Deutsch, Scientist

"I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology"

Stockard Channing, Actress

"I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing"

Norm Crosby, Comedian

"Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price"

Jonathan Potter, Psychologist

"This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has"

Chris Wedge, Director

"And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years"

Chris Anderson, Businessman

"And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn"

Chris Anderson, Businessman

"For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal"

Tim Holden, Politician

"I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe"

Robert Englund, Actor

"Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past"

Jim Walton, Businessman

"Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology"

James Young, Musician

"If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is"

Ralph Merkle, Scientist

"It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology"

John Sununu, Politician

"Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression"

John Charles Polanyi, Scientist

"I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology"

Gavin Bryars, Composer

"I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!"

David Prowse, Actor

"It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great"

Aaron Neville, Musician

"Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go"

Mike Gordon, Musician

"The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job"

John Cameron

"But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer"

Jay Chiat, Businessman

"It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit"

Janet Napolitano, Politician

"All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images"

Janet Napolitano, Politician

"During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts"

David Bohm, Scientist

"The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes"

Cliff Stearns, Politician

"We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both"

John Callahan, Actor

"The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies"

Koichi Tanaka, Scientist

"In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology"

Koichi Tanaka, Scientist

"Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going"

Dennis Moore, Politician

"Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies"

Dan Glickman, Politician

"While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world"

Carol Bellamy, Educator

"Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies)"

Janet Napolitano, Politician

"I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm"

Douglas Trumbull, Director

"The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals"

Gordon Moore, Businessman

"We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now"

Daniel Greenberg, Educator

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