Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"Because the series is situated in the next century, and for the most part under water, there are many innovative technical gadgets. It's a kind of StarTrek. When I first came there, I was really impressed myself"

Jonathan Brandis, Actor

"Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace"

Trip Hawkins, Businessman

"Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won't accept"

Jesse Eisenberg, Actor

"It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"The industry is becoming very ready for animal identification"

Mike Johanns, Politician

"The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired"

Major Owens, Politician

"The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games, the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality!"

John Hench, Artist

"I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years"

Major Owens, Politician

"Soon it's all going to be digital anyway. It's all going to be saved on a little coin somewhere"

Richard Donner, Director

"We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience"

Major Owens, Politician

"Now the whole point about machines is they are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same!"

Rupert Sheldrake, Scientist

"But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA"

Umberto Guidoni, Astronaut

"Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned"

Major Owens, Politician

"At that point, there will be the handover between the shuttle arm and the station arm so that the shuttle arm will take the cradle and put it into the cargo bay"

Umberto Guidoni, Astronaut

"When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm"

Umberto Guidoni, Astronaut

"Well, we have two major goals. The most important one is to get the station arm on board the station, because that's this really milestone in the space station building, since from now on they will be using this arm to continue building the space station"

Umberto Guidoni, Astronaut

"During that space walk, there will be some repositioning of the power, so that the arm can be fully controlled by the robotic station that is in the Lab"

Umberto Guidoni, Astronaut

"We finally found out the technique of separating and getting information about where every train would be at any moment. Of course, I went over budget many times, because - as you go along - some things improved, and you get better ideas"

John Hench, Artist

"We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns"

Mike Davidson, Writer

"The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"To add an AC outlet, for example, you just drill a circular hole in the wall, tap into the wiring, add the outlet and you're set. If you don't want it, pull it out and plaster over it with more earth to seal the hole"

Randy Bachman, Musician

"We changed every lead in our whole system, and to this day we still don't really know why it did it. We think wires were touching and faulting. That was it really, but it didn't make it any easier"

Kelly Jones, Musician

"It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about"

Henry Bessemer, Scientist

"In Congress, I am a strong supporter of the New Apollo Energy Act. This plan would help to establish our energy independence, create jobs, and provide cleaner, reliable, and more affordable energy"

Allyson Schwartz, Politician

"Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires"

Eric S. Raymond, Author

"If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them"

Eric S. Raymond, Author

"You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website"

Dave Davies, Musician

"But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it"

Jack Vance, Author

"Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries"

Hans Blix, Diplomat

"The radio for these women is like television is for us today, which is really like looking at the radio"

Debbie Allen, Actress

"It is a modern day, and these times need modern solutions to modern problems"

Corin Nemec, Actor

"For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries"

Bob Inglis, Politician

"Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs"

Cathy McMorris, Politician

"The trick with computers, I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair, and not be seduced by the constant innovation, otherwise you never do anything"

Colin Greenwood, Musician

"The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere"

Andy Hertzfeld, Inventor

"Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"We were developing an innovative Personal Information Manager called Chandler, but a couple years ago I took off from that to do a project, writing down my memoirs essentially, reminiscing about the development of the Macintosh"

Andy Hertzfeld, Inventor

"I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type"

Andy Hertzfeld, Inventor

"In fact, when I first got my Apple II, the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before"

Andy Hertzfeld, Inventor

"If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it, it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's, on the way to that"

Graham Nelson, Mathematician

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