Technology Quotes

"I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science"

Ann Druyan, Writer

"Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy"

Isaac Yeffet

"Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development"

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting"

Bernie Ebbers, Businessman

"I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes"

Paula Danziger, Author

"Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology"

Mark Warner, Politician

"The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat"

John Pistole, Public Servant

"IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments"

John Patrick, Playwright

"What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything"

Robert Rodriguez, Director

"Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology"

Jean-Marie Messier

"This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem"

Eric Allman, Scientist

"The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology"

Eric Allman, Scientist

"I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects"

Jack L. Chalker, Author

"The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected"

John McKinley, Politician

"I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them"

Jim Balsillie

"Accordingly, it is our task to ensure that the Government formulates policies that foster the continued development of the IT sector while also providing for citizens' access to technology and opportunity for economic advancement"

Tim Holden, Politician

"I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting"

Bernie Ebbers, Businessman

"That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry"

Paul Berg, Scientist

"In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me"

Burton Richter, Scientist

"We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless"

Vince Neil, Musician

"As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive"

Nathan Deal, Politician

"I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology"

Kenneth G. Wilson, Scientist

"I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission"

John Pistole, Public Servant

"Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be"

John Phillips, Musician

"I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window"

John Eaton, Politician

"America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world"

Bill Frist, Politician

"I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born"

David Baltimore, Scientist

"Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel"

Brian Celio, Novelist

"India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology"

Yoshiro Mori

"No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions"

David Baker, Composer

"The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too"

Paul Allen, Businessman

"We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets"

John McKinley, Politician

"Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally"

John McKinley, Politician

"For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date"

Laurent Fabius, Statesman

"There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity"

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

"Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present"

Scott Cook, Businessman

"Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are"

Werner Herzog, Director

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