Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer"

Ian Jackson, Scientist

"I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously, you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it"

Ian Jackson, Scientist

"But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space"

Jack Schmitt, Astronaut

"Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price"

Jonathan Potter, Psychologist

"You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation"

James Daly, Actor

"This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has"

Chris Wedge, Director

"Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me"

Charles Keating, Lawyer

"For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal"

Tim Holden, Politician

"I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe"

Robert Englund, Actor

"Technology has saved us money in some circumstances, but it has really afforded us the ability to cover stories from locations we might not have been able to in the past"

Jim Walton, Businessman

"One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible"

Steve Case, Businessman

"Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated"

Steve Case, Businessman

"Over the course of two years, we arrived at a point where we began to look at the value added by making information more easily accessible across the intelligence community, both defense and national"

Stephen Cambone, Politician

"So a more sensible thing, it seemed to me, was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers"

Thomas Dolby, Musician

"The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies"

Rosa DeLauro, Politician

"Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time"

Guglielmo Marconi, Scientist

"History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise"

Wilson Greatbatch, Inventor

"Common sense steps in here and says: Separate the parts you want to be mobile from the parts you want to be inert. You have seen the result, and I know many have the skill to apply it"

Lawrence Hargrave, Scientist

"Our criteria for good data feeds are that they need to be dynamic enough to be interesting, something that users want to attune to throughout the day, etc"

David Rose, Musician

"All of the devices work out of the box without any subscription fee"

David Rose, Musician

"The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on through the external pipe and inlet valve to the compression space and cylinder"

Lawrence Hargrave, Scientist

"I used to make fun of my friends who had BlackBerries. And I know that the expression CrackBerry has been going around, but now I fully understand it. I'm actually addicted to a piece of machinery, and that's really embarrassing"

John Krasinski, Actor

"Manufacturers account for nearly 60 percent of all industrial research and development"

John Engler, Politician

"So many people are accustomed to written information that you really have to have a few more bells and whistles in this day and age"

Chris Bell, Politician

"I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm"

Douglas Trumbull, Director

"We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery"

Donald Evans, Public Servant

"The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals"

Gordon Moore, Businessman

"The sensors have many potential practical uses - in government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose"

Anne Campbell, Politician

"In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable"

Helen Gahagan, Actress

"What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity"

Desmond Llewelyn, Actor

"Apple does great products, but at the end of the day, we think consumers want choice, consumers want openness"

Rob Glaser, Businessman

"OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it"

Nat Friedman, Businessman

"I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity"

Ray Dolby, Inventor

"I like some shooters, and I respect games like Doom, but I don't think it's right for me"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level"

Ian Jackson, Scientist

"Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously"

Lee De Forest, Inventor

"Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology"

Mark Warner, Politician

"As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy"

Craig Stevens, Athlete

"We tell anybody who asks that we think Apple is making a big mistake by not being compatible"

Rob Glaser, Businessman

"The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!"

Donald L. Carcieri, Politician

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