Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now"

Ed Markey, Politician

"I think that by October the whole company has to migrate to OpenOffice, and then I think it's by June next year we all migrate to Linux - you don't want to migrate 6,000 people both operating system and office suite in a single jump"

Miguel de Icaza, Scientist

"I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display"

Bill Joy, Businessman

"To me the biggest breakthrough was when we did Terminator 2, that just opened the door for Jurassic and all of the others, and that was as big as when we did motion control on Star Wars. But I don't see another big thing coming"

Dennis Muren, Artist

"Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over"

Douglas Wilson, Entertainer

"It's extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before"

Brit Hume, Journalist

"I think games are starting to branch out. It's not just guys sitting at their computer stations. Games are so fun, that everybody gets into them a little bit"

Christian Slater, Actor

"To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s, the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters"

Daniel Yergin, Author

"None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists"

Alex Chiu, Businessman

"I will continue to advocate for a strong federal government role to establish the production, storage and distribution networks needed to support a hydrogen economy"

Albert Wynn, Politician

"Fuel cell vehicles run on clean-burning hydrogen and are three times more efficient than the traditional combustible engine"

Albert Wynn, Politician

"I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car"

Albert Wynn, Politician

"You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn"

Duane G. Carey, Astronaut

"You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers"

Claude Nicollier, Astronaut

"We have the Fine Guidance Sensors, one of which we will exchange out of three. Another one we changed on the last servicing mission, and on the fourth servicing mission in 2003 or 2004, the third one will be exchanged"

Claude Nicollier, Astronaut

"We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the second servicing mission, and we refined it this time: all the terminology"

Claude Nicollier, Astronaut

"It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I have all reasons to believe that it will work fine. But it's a short time. And we also have pushed the envelope here a little beyond what has been done in the past"

Claude Nicollier, Astronaut

"Telecom is a dramatic success in India and our view is, respecting the political process, and respecting the fact that these are sovereign decisions, is that, approaching India as a friend"

John W. Snow, Economist

"I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment"

Johannes Rau, Statesman

"The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies"

Estelle Morris, Politician

"I want to do very useful buildings, and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology, because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future"

Minoru Yamasaki, Architect

"Our ambition in tech, and in public policy around tech, has to start with imagining the future we want to see, and especially the public good that we want to see"

Tharman Shanmugaratnam, President

"Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet"

Chris Hughes, Entrepreneur

"I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology"

Chris Hughes, Entrepreneur

"You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose"

Chris Hughes, Entrepreneur

"We need to embrace innovation and technology to drive growth and development"

Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Politician

"We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed"

Lawrence Clark Powell

"My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin"

Desmond Llewelyn, Actor

"Personally, I just got one of these Vonage IP phones. It's actually pretty cool. It comes with one of these Cisco ATA routers where you just plug an analog handset in"

Rob Glaser, Businessman

"We plan to support Exchange 2003 as soon as it is released. We already have the prerelease versions from MSDN"

Nat Friedman, Businessman

"We think we've got it taken care of now. Multiplayer is something that's hard to do in a turn-based game, especially a turn-based game that lasts a long time, like Civilization"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"You own a watch, the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought"

Richard Blackmore, Poet

"Technology makes the world a new place"

Shoshana Zuboff, Educator

"I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion"

Chris Wedge, Director

"We don't want to turn the TV into a computer"

Steve Case, Businessman

"But by providing the background picture - the universal situational awareness that we desire - by showing the anomalies, the Space-Based Radar will change the nature of how we do our analysis and our intelligence"

Stephen Cambone, Politician

"We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool"

Nat Friedman, Businessman

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