Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible"

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"Only in the last week, South Carolina announced that it is seeking to become the U. S. center for hydrogen fuel cells, and BMW revealed that it will power some of its high-end model cars with hydrogen"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals"

Gerrit Smith, Politician

"The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it"

Robert Crippen, Astronaut

"I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle"

Robert Crippen, Astronaut

"Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables"

Paul Hawken, Environmentalist

"Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy"

Zack Wamp, Politician

"I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners"

Don Bluth, Artist

"I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"Yes, I see the Mobile Base System really is the shoulder of the arm. The arm is right there, like a human arm. It's really funny to look at the similarities between a human arm and the Canadian robotics arm"

Philippe Perrin, Astronaut

"Under the Environmental Protection Agency's Energy Star Program, homes are independently verified to be measurably more energy efficient than average houses"

Melissa Bean, Politician

"The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive"

Bill Joy, Businessman

"Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that"

Bill Joy, Businessman

"Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered"

Gale Norton, Public Servant

"Where is the harm in the wireless industry?"

Steve Largent, Athlete

"I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations"

William Hurt, Actor

"What makes a specific quality or quantity of innovation retain its intense newness over the years?"

Brian Ferneyhough, Composer

"I just don't like to lose what's in the window"

Bill Joy, Businessman

"But with Interleaf, I don't even have a spell program"

Bill Joy, Businessman

"Bitmap display is media compatible with dot matrix or laser printers"

Bill Joy, Businessman

"There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts, and in certain circumstances, there is still the chance of fire today"

Jackie Stewart, Athlete

"Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"A major one, which no one can overlook, is technological and based on inventions and discoveries, which have altered the whole basis of production, and deeply affected social relations"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world"

Harold H. Greene, Judge

"Shelf-life for a regular video game usually is about three to five years, and that's it"

Don Bluth, Artist

"Not to go too far, but Microsoft is probably used by most people out there"

Miguel de Icaza, Scientist

"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops"

Gijs de Vries, Politician

"This aircraft tops everything. All the others look old as compared to this one!"

Niki Lauda, Athlete

"So, the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it"

Sherwood Boehlert, Politician

"We must shift the energy policy debate in America with an increased focus on alternative and renewable fuels, and Congress must pass meaningful alternative fuels and incentive programs to help move the U.S. away from dependence on foreign oil"

Rick Renzi, Politician

"And, you run also video because to fly this arm, you're relying mostly on some external camera views that may be coming from the arm itself or from the station"

Philippe Perrin, Astronaut

"Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation"

Sherwood Boehlert, Politician

"Interleaf is based on the formatting process"

Bill Joy, Businessman

"Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management"

John Doolittle, Politician

"Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated"

Bill Joy, Businessman

"The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand"

Sherwood Boehlert, Politician

"We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases"

Miguel de Icaza, Scientist

"We all love Linux, but it's also a fact that some people might not be able to migrate"

Miguel de Icaza, Scientist

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