Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost"

Burt Rutan, Scientist

"When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government"

Alexander Chase, Author

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

Max Lerner, Journalist

"User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance"

Barry Commoner, Scientist

"I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail"

Brian Herbert, Author

"Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits"

Will Wright, Scientist

"The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad"

John Moody, Businessman

"The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine"

Will Wright, Scientist

"I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it"

Will Wright, Scientist

"I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system"

Jerry Brown, Politician

"Research promoted by NARA within a major coalition of Federal and private sector research partners has at last demonstrated that an Electronic Records Archives can be built"

Allen Weinstein, Public Servant

"The technical is not just the machinery. The technical is a disposition to life"

Leon Kass, Educator

"It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s, when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way"

Richard Rogers, Architect

"I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face"

Richard Rogers, Architect

"Horses and mules, and even sail cars, made more rapid progress than did the earliest locomotive"

John Moody, Businessman

"The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play"

Will Wright, Scientist

"We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area"

Will Wright, Scientist

"There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political!"

Will Wright, Scientist

"Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!"

Jerry Brown, Politician

"Television, of course, actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster, and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life"

Richard Branson, Businessman

"It is impossible to understand the history of the United States without understanding the history of the automobile"

Otto Friedrich, Writer

"The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm"

Edward Tufte, Educator

"I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work"

Edward Tufte, Educator

"We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body"

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor

"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

"The biodiesel we use is 100 percent, it has no petroleum in it. It was already used in fryers throughout our local area. It's already had one life and now it's going to be used again, which is nice"

Daryl Hannah, Actress

"I think that Microsoft will increasingly feel margin pressure from Linux as well as people saying: Well, actually the applications that really matter to me are not on my PC. And so they're going to be able to extract less of a monopoly rent, so to speak"

Tim O'Reilly, Publisher

"The transmission systems are still regulated"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

"I could not understand how it could move under its own power. And when it had driven past me, without even thinking why, I found myself chasing it down the road, as hard as I could run"

Soichiro Honda, Businessman

"I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started"

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor

"What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop"

Bono, Musician

"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

"As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up"

Ray Kurzweil, Inventor

"Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist"

Mike Wilson, Writer

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