Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"Somewhere in that 20-year period, I would assume that there will be some basically new approach that will begin to cut into it, but it's got a long time"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"Five years ago, people were crying and feeling the Japanese were about to take over the Earth. I don't hear that kind of talk anymore"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere"

Jared Diamond, Author

"When I was a teenager in the late 30's and early 40's, electronics wasn't a word. You were interested in radio if you were interested in electronics"

Ken Olsen, Businessman

"Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks"

Dee Hock, Businessman

"Technology has to be invented or adopted"

Jared Diamond, Author

"Today, people tend to credit me with having the original idea and made the first circuits"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"They were the largest semiconductor maker in the world up until about 1980. I'm not sure that that can be re-gained again, but their progress in the last few years has been very impressive"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"There was a space program before there was integrated circuits"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes"

Jack Kilby, Scientist

"We can provide beta software to our developers in advance of the general public. We can easily link up with external partners, customers, and suppliers"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"Nuclear power is here to stay, and we need to support a strong domestic uranium industry"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"I don't believe in government regulation of the software industry"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before, and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles"

Maurice Strong, Businessman

"The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues"

Dennis Ritchie, Scientist

"It appears that the media filters we carry in our heads are like computers: they've been forced to get faster in order to keep up with the demands our high-speed society puts on them"

Roy H. Williams, Businessman

"I think the touchstone is to give consumers a full, fair choice without the power of a monopoly operating system pushing them in a direction that free competition might or might not achieve"

Jim Barksdale, Businessman

"A new release of Plan 9 happened in June, and at about the same time a new release of the Inferno system, which began here, was announced by Vita Nuova"

Dennis Ritchie, Scientist

"To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done"

Jef Raskin, Scientist

"The system should treat all user input as sacred"

Jef Raskin, Scientist

"An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties"

Jef Raskin, Scientist

"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

"We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards"

Bill Owens, Politician

"What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"They simply don't know that much about what they're doing. There isn't enough control. There isn't enough capability in ordinary people to tinker with such a complicated piece of machinery"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"The electronic media introduced this idea to the larger audience very, very quickly. We spent years and years and years meeting with activists all over Europe to lay the groundwork for a political response, as we did here"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars"

Dale Earnhardt, Celebrity

"Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else"

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"But now, with technology, I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer, using my exact style, could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before"

Bill Griffith, Cartoonist

"I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor"

David R. Brower, Environmentalist

"What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"We are as much moving into a software age as we moved into an iron age"

Whitfield Diffie, Scientist

"W2K will be a bigger disaster than Y2K"

Scott McNealy, Businessman

"One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini"

James Dyson, Designer

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