Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways"

Major Owens, Politician

"Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex, so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get"

Umberto Guidoni, Astronaut

"If we are to meet the growing electricity demand in the United States without significantly increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, we must maintain a diverse supply of electricity, and nuclear power must be part of that mix"

Judy Biggert, Politician

"And I'm sure after Facebook, it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them"

Jesse Eisenberg, Actor

"I want to be cutting-edge"

Missy Elliot, Musician

"And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty"

Vernor Vinge, Writer

"New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else"

Tom Holt, Novelist

"The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers"

Eric S. Raymond, Author

"I was a grad student at UC Berkeley when I bought my Apple II, and it suddenly because a lot more interesting than school"

Andy Hertzfeld, Inventor

"The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away: the creative, artistic approach that the designers had taken"

Andy Hertzfeld, Inventor

"Here's the thing about Apple, we complain and they give us more battery life. We complain and they'll give us more stuff. Everything's beta right now. Everything's experimental. They really don't know what people want"

Sinbad, Comedian

"Our country has had a hard time learning that lesson with energy"

Mac Thornberry, Politician

"In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming, when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on, and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles"

Mac Thornberry, Politician

"I have problems with machines which aren't gestural"

Luc Ferrari, Composer

"There is a new way with very, very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many, many thousand fibers, very, very close together with a very small diameter"

Lennart Nilsson, Photographer

"The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat"

John Pistole, Public Servant

"I think the human race made a big mistake at the beginning of the industrial revolution, we leaped for the mechanical things, people need the use of their hands to feel creative"

Andre Norton, Writer

"What that means initially is that you have alot of products that are only slightly better games in the same genre on another machine - and the titles that really take advantage of the machine come along later"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment"

David Deutsch, Scientist

"Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective, not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well"

Geoff Davis, Politician

"None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"The Connection Machine was the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It is a complex supercomputer, and it will take forever to completely describe how it works"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"The 65,536 processors were inside the Connection Machine"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"In reality, drilling is the slowest, dirtiest, and most expensive way to solve our energy crisis"

Lois Capps, Politician

"I'm a neo-Luddite"

Juliana Hatfield, Musician

"But I said, wait a minute, I'm going to get a computer, I can do this as well as anybody else. So I did some studying so I knew what kind of boards to get to put a PC together. But there was a guy sitting there with Apple. I said, 'What's that?' and he goes, 'Apple with 128k, it's all built into the box.' And I bought it. That was my first computer"

Sinbad, Comedian

"It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say it's more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States"

Brad Sherman, Politician

"We are a communicating nation which needs access to space, access to the seas"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see 'Delivery will be in 8-12 weeks.' This is because of the faxes and forms that still exist"

John Patrick, Playwright

"Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself"

Yancy Butler, Actress

"There's a basic principle about consumer electronics: it gets more powerful all the time and it gets cheaper all the time. That's true of all types of consumer electronics"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world"

Robert MacNeil, Journalist

"First, I identify an analogous problem in nature and borrow from it"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"The value of having a computer, to me, is that it'll remember everything you do. It's a databank"

John Cale, Musician

"I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency, and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources"

Lois Capps, Politician

"I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

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