Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"Man keeps inventing things all the time"

Mikhail Kalashnikov, Inventor

"The mobile market is exploding and it makes perfect sense for a media company like ours to create a real content destination for the billions of cell-phone users around the world"

Peter Chernin, Businessman

"The modern computer hovers between the obsolescent and the nonexistent"

Sydney Brenner, Scientist

"Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists"

Mitchell Baker, Lawyer

"What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything"

Robert Rodriguez, Director

"It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing"

Jeff Zucker, Businessman

"There's an entire flight simulator hidden in every copy of Microsoft Excel 97"

Bruce Scheneier, Writer

"Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present"

Scott Cook, Businessman

"Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people"

J Allard, Scientist

"I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them"

Jim Balsillie, Businessman

"As electronic journalism came to be evaluated for its cost effectiveness, the network world began breaking up"

Roger Mudd, Journalist

"Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine"

Ron Johnson, Politician

"I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world"

Rachel Dratch, Comedian

"Images contaminate us like viruses"

Paul Virilio, Writer

"If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today"

John Sculley, Businessman

"I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power"

Gaylord Nelson, Politician

"In my opinion, we should search for a completely different flying machine, based on other flying principles"

Henri Coanda, Inventor

"The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do"

J Allard, Scientist

"One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion"

Eli Whitney, Inventor

"One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices"

Samuel Wilson, Public Servant

"And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel"

Arthur Rock, Businessman

"When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket"

J Allard, Scientist

"We too could wrest iron from the bowels of the earth and fashion it into ships and machines"

Jose C. Orozco, Painter

"There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity"

Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

"Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen, even though they are extinct, 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are"

Werner Herzog, Director

"Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people"

Matt Blunt, Politician

"At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer"

Janet Reno, Public Servant

"The core value that differentiates Apple is our ability to innovate"

Ron Johnson, Politician

"Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged"

Ann Veneman, Public Servant

"Today's vote ensures that coal will continue to be an important part of our nation's energy policy, with strong parameters to make it cleaner and more efficient"

Ron Lewis, Politician

"The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience"

Roger Mudd, Journalist

"We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new"

Michael Eisner, Businessman

"We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us"

Tracy Chapman, Musician

"I use Windows; '98 Second Edition and it works very good for me. You know, I just started on the computer about 9 months ago and am fascinated with the possibilities. I don't know what I would do without it now"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable"

Rick Danko, Musician

"Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now, music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste"

Rick Danko, Musician

"What you see happening right now with some of the consolidation is all about more spectrum and capital formation that give you the scale, scope and resources to invest in that 3G world"

Steve Largent, Athlete

"I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!"

Don Bluth, Artist

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