Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"The nations of the West hope that by means of steam communication all the world will become as one family"

Townsend Harris, Businessman

"Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that"

Ted Nelson, Author

"Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything"

Ted Nelson, Author

"Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material"

John Linder, Politician

"So, what you can do in Microsoft Word is what Bill Gates has decided. What you can do in Oracle Database is what Larry Ellison and his crew have decided"

Ted Nelson, Author

"I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media"

Ted Nelson, Author

"But it seemed to me that as soon as you have computer storage, you could put every point you wanted in - make the ones that are less relevant to your central topic, further away or allow the central topic to move as the reader proceeded"

Ted Nelson, Author

"The Cube can seem alive as it heats up in your hand. The fact that each face of the Cube is made of three layers of three blocks has an important meaning"

Erno Rubik, Inventor

"So, the point was to be able to have a medium that would record all the connections and all the structures and all the thoughts that paper could not. Since the computer could hold any structure in any form, this was the way to go"

Ted Nelson, Author

"I'm still the same person, thinking the same way, so it's possible I will invent something"

Erno Rubik, Inventor

"At the beginning of 1955, only about 60 percent of American homes had TVs"

Annette Funicello, Actress

"As part of our layered approach, we have expedited the deployment of new Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT) units to help detect concealed metallic and non-metallic threats on passengers. These machines are now in use at airports nationwide, and the vast majority of travelers say they prefer this technology to alternative screening measures"

Janet Napolitano, Politician

"No, I consider myself computer illiterate"

Casper Van Dien, Actor

"The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger"

Casey Kasem, Actor

"Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that"

David Cronenberg, Director

"I see technology as being an extension of the human body"

David Cronenberg, Director

"When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"The throttles could only move very, very slowly, always watching the temperature, always watching. And even in throttling back, you could bust it, even being very careful"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"My first Macintosh was a 128k machine, which I upgraded to 512k the minute it became possible"

Buffy Sainte-Marie

"At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world"

Ben Nicholson, Artist

"We're a superpower with a Third World grid"

Bill Richardson, Politician

"We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology, like the jet brought about"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about"

John Badham, Director

"It's our responsibility to build technology that amplifies human potential"

Jensen Huang, Businessman

"Accelerated computing is the path forward"

Jensen Huang, Businessman

"We are in the beginning of a new computing era"

Jensen Huang, Businessman

"We are here to build software that makes the institutions we depend on better, more capable, more resilient, and more accountable"

Alex Karp, Businessman

"We need to focus on the development of innovation and high technology, as this is the key to the future success of our country"

Dmitry Medvedev, President

"Eventually there are going to be cities in space"

Alan Bean, Astronaut

"The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite"

James Collins, Athlete

"Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress"

Mac Thornberry, Politician

"I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology"

John Romero, Inventor

"With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"What we need to do is really improve energy efficiency standards, develop in full scale renewable and alternative energy and use the one resource we have in abundance, our creativity"

Lois Capps, Politician

"I don't have an iPod"

Mary Timony, Musician

"Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off"

John Thorn, Historian

"We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts"

Richard Burr, Politician

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