Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"I think in terms of the work we're doing now, a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier"

Shawn Fanning, Businessman

"Everybody's got the mindset that everything should be measurable"

Erik Qualman, Author

"There are technologies you couldn't predict at all when I started"

John Ratzenberger, Actor

"In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology, we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect"

Esther Dyson, Scientist

"There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god"

John B. S. Haldane, Scientist

"It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine"

Carrie P. Snow, Writer

"Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth"

Adrian Belew, Musician

"The pilot looked at his cues of attitude and speed and orientation and so on and responded as he would from the same cues in an airplane, but there was no way it flew the same. The simulators had showed us that"

Alan Shepard, Astronaut

"It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal"

Annie Leibovitz, Photographer

"I had always realized it was desirable to gear down the jet"

Frank Whittle, Inventor

"Gentlemen, I give you the Whittle engine!"

Frank Whittle, Inventor

"I think it's doing very well. I'm pleased to see the concentration on semiconductors. I think this will help"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, biotechnology industries that will create the millions of new jobs"

Joe Lieberman, 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

"What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones"

Stanley Schmidt, Writer

"Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"I've developed a huge regard for Toyota for its environmental awareness, for its immense commitment to research and development in this field, and for its leadership in developing hybrids which others are now following"

Maurice Strong, Businessman

"High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage"

Alan Autry, Actor

"I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol"

Susan George, Activist

"Right now, computers, which are supposed to be our servant, are oppressing us"

Jef Raskin, Scientist

"A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm"

Jef Raskin, Scientist

"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

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

Aleksander Kwasniewski, Politician

"On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier"

Ken Olsen, Businessman

"Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware"

Ken Olsen, Businessman

"I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge"

William Gaddis, Novelist

"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

"I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"Some of the biggest changes that have happened are behind the scenes, in the way we produce the magazine. E.g. much of our production has been brought in-house via desktop publishing"

Stanley Schmidt, Writer

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

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States would have tragic consequences"

John Sununu, Politician

"There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments"

Stanley Schmidt, Writer

"In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost"

Maurice Strong, Businessman

"At some point, Moore's law will break down"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"Something else has happened with computers"

Seth Lloyd, Educator

"Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

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