Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"The next evolutionary step is into the screen"

Marc Maron, Entertainer

"Everything that we are making, we are making more and more complex"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"We're doing a lot of inspection on the leading edge of our wing on 114 and 121, the first two flights"

Mark Kelly, Musician

"I think we need to do a little more all-weather testing"

Pete Conrad, Astronaut

"You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing"

Roy Romer, Politician

"Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction"

Roy Romer, Politician

"The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt"

Henry George, Economist

"The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience, and partly for theirs, and partly out of stereotypes that they carry with them from the conventions of the computer field"

Ted Nelson, Author

"I did not plan to make the Cube"

Erno Rubik, Inventor

"It would be unwise, to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department, not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit"

Janet Napolitano, Politician

"So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms"

Ted Nelson, Author

"Now, after the Cube, I still don't have any plans to make anything like it"

Erno Rubik, Inventor

"For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger"

Casey Kasem, Actor

"Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies)"

Janet Napolitano, Politician

"I think the United States is way behind the times"

Christopher Atkins, Actor

"Corn ethanol can help in the short term, but it has serious limitations, and none of this is going to work if we don't dramatically improve the efficiency of our cars and trucks"

David Friedman, Musician

"Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform"

Jim Allchin, Businessman

"Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday"

Dennis Gabor, Scientist

"I haven't heard anything or seen anything out there that would lead me to believe that all of a sudden there's an unexpected drop in PCs"

Daniel Morgan, Soldier

"There's a lot more to see when you're playing, and because of the advances in technology, it makes room for all kinds of new characters"

Tara Strong, Actress

"All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine"

Valentino Rossi, Athlete

"The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se, but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"By the time Apple's Macintosh operating system finally falls into the public domain, there will be no machine that could possibly run it. The term of copyright for software is effectively unlimited"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"Americans have been selling this view around the world: that progress comes from perfect protection of intellectual property"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"What God hath wrought?"

Samuel Morse, Inventor

"The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive, it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information"

Norbert Wiener, Mathematician

"Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions"

Norbert Wiener, Mathematician

"In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

"The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly be used on later flights"

Mark Kelly, Musician

"I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does"

Pete Conrad, Astronaut

"They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind"

Ted Nelson, Author

"I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything"

Ted Nelson, Author

"Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

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