Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about"

Robin Day, Journalist

"I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function"

Robin Day, Journalist

"I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve"

Charles Lindbergh, Aviator

"I like DVDs so much - it's such a better format than VHS"

Roland Joffe, Director

"LTO Ultrium is adaptable and scalable backup tape format, and its technology is continuously enhanced by its manufacturers to address the growing needs and requirements of the server environments of midrange to the enterprise class"

Sean Paul, Musician

"The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore"

Will McDonough, Writer

"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended"

Will McDonough, Writer

"The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them"

Norman Spinrad, Author

"As the new endogenous growth theory suggests, TFP growth is closely related to accumulation of the intangible capitals, such as human capital and research and development"

Toshihiko Fukui, Public Servant

"Boston is known for its innovation"

Thomas Menino, Politician

"As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"'Authoring tools' are terrible; there is almost no software that can create closed captions for media players. And of course there is no training. TV captioning is bad enough, and this stuff is generally worse"

Joe Clark, Scientist

"When you start thinking about taking pictures, sending an e-mail, receiving an e-mail, speaking into your phone, and have it transcript voice into text, and then sent as an e-mail, it's mind-boggling"

Steve Largent, Athlete

"Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium"

Nigel Kneale, Writer

"The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology"

Jeffrey Katzenberg, Producer

"The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration"

Chris Anderson, Businessman

"And what's interesting about the hybrids taking off is you've now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It's the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years"

Chris Anderson, Businessman

"And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn"

Chris Anderson, Businessman

"There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity"

Gray Davis, Politician

"If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people"

Kevin J. Anderson, Author

"For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970"

John McGahern, Writer

"I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little"

James Marsters, Actor

"I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy, and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue"

John Hickenlooper, Politician

"The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution"

Steven Levy, Journalist

"That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day, all industrial systems including the information age"

Paul Hawken, Environmentalist

"We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future"

Sherwood Boehlert, Politician

"Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job"

John Cameron, Writer

"And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings"

Sherwood Boehlert, Politician

"Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays"

Bill Joy, Businessman

"I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also"

Harold H. Greene, Judge

"The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now"

Dave Rowntree, Musician

"Well, Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology"

Miguel de Icaza, Scientist

"We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both"

John Callahan, Actor

"The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day"

Jam Master Jay, Musician

"My sense is that we're ready for another industrial revolution in this country. The great minds and innovators of Silicon Valley would come through China and say, the pipeline is full of ideas - there's personalized medicine, biotechnology, new forms to power ourselves, clean energy, etc., etc"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon, using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all"

Ed Markey, Politician

"I'm blown away by the graphical detail of today's games. I can't imagine that it's going to get any better, but it's just going to continually progress and soon we'll be living in that world"

Christian Slater, Actor

"If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels"

Bart Gordon, Politician

"The electronic spectrum is the only natural resource in which there's no such thing as private property rights. You can't own a piece of the spectrum"

Adrian Cronauer, Entertainer

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