Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century"

John Doerr, Businessman

"We waste an awful lot of energy as a nation through inefficient use of energy"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"I want to avoid locking people into solutions that work only with Postfix. People should have a choice in what software they want to use with Postfix, be it anti-virus or otherwise"

Wietse Venema, Scientist

"Once the image was in the digital environment, one of the problems was we had no means to reproduce the color spectrum, grey scale, and contrast that film produces, without converting the digital file to film, evaluating it, then going back and changing the digital image"

John Dykstra, Scientist

"You have to take into account it was the cell phone that became what the modern-day concept of a phone call is, and this is a device that's attached to your hip 24/7. Before that there was 'leave a message' and before that there was 'hopefully you're home'"

Giovanni Ribisi, Actor

"And when these advances are made, hydrogen can fill critical energy needs beyond transportation. Hydrogen can also be used to heat and generate electricity for our homes. The future possibilities of this energy source are enormous"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

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

Daniel Greenberg, Educator

"The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers"

Mike Ferguson, Politician

"What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?'"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"Accessible design is good design"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"I have seen games on Xbox 360 and HD TV and I'm amazed at how realistic the players look"

Claudio Reyna, Athlete

"Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace"

Ron Kind, Politician

"We will make our products work out of the box"

Steve Ballmer, Businessman

"America demands invention and innovation to succeed"

Kit Bond, Politician

"Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not ship with their system software"

Wietse Venema, Scientist

"Postfix keeps running even if one Postfix process dies; Windows requires that someone restarts the service"

Wietse Venema, Scientist

"The single most important factor in determining America's success in the 21st century will be maintaining our ability to be an innovative and creative society"

Ron Kind, Politician

"Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before"

Ron Kind, Politician

"NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity"

John F. Kerry, Politician

"This digital world is completely fascinating to me"

Graham Nash, Musician

"I'm a video game buff"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce"

Friedrich List, Economist

"You talk about American technocracy and you find men on the Moon, not once, but several times... and safely home again"

Gordon Sinclair, Journalist

"None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own"

Anita Borg, Scientist

"We have no basis for having a recall of any particular type of voting equipment because there are no standards. And when we do have standards, even these standards are required to be voluntary"

DeForest Soaries, Politician

"I'm old fashioned with my cell phone. I like that human contact and I think it's important"

Giovanni Ribisi, Actor

"As with sound, images are subjective. You and I may not see the same color red as red, but we will probably agree that the image on the screen is a digital image or film image, based on contrast, bit depth, and refresh rate"

John Dykstra, Scientist

"I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast"

Daniel J. Bernstein, Mathematician

"The hydrogen powered car, with its high fuel mileage and zero emission rate, is just one example of the products under development that will help increase our energy independence"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent"

Mitt Romney, Politician

"There's a tremendous amount of energy in Japan and, increasingly, in China"

Vinton Cerf, Inventor

"Space is going to be commonplace"

Christa McAuliffe, Astronaut

"It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship"

Henry A. Wallace, Vice President

"Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society"

John Grierson, Director

"We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast"

Jim Allchin, Businessman

"Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results"

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Historian

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