Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources"

Lamar S. Smith, Politician

"Accordingly, it is our task to ensure that the Government formulates policies that foster the continued development of the IT sector while also providing for citizens' access to technology and opportunity for economic advancement"

Tim Holden, Politician

"In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way"

Paul Allen, Businessman

"At the risk of being a fuddy-duddy, I don't have a computer; I don't have e-mail; and I really don't need something in my house that I would be sitting in front of for hours"

Marian McPartland, Musician

"For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff"

Steve Case, Businessman

"A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes it, in some ways, simpler for them"

Robert Wise, Producer

"I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing"

Michael K. Powell, Politician

"There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop"

Nat Friedman, Businessman

"Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops"

Nat Friedman, Businessman

"Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window"

John Eaton, Politician

"I've been using the Mac solely for years and got very comfortable with it"

Jerry Goldsmith, Composer

"Red Carpet Enterprise has been really well received since one guy can install it in about an hour, and it makes it trivial to deal with software management issues like deploying updates and creating standard package sets for your various machines"

Nat Friedman, Businessman

"It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"I guess the one question I will not get today is: When are you going to do anything about cellular?"

Bernard Ebbers, Businessman

"India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology"

Yoshiro Mori, Politician

"It's a national concern, I mean how we dispose of nuclear waste in a safe way, how we deal with this incredible amount of nuclear waste we have created over the years"

Tom Udall, Politician

"I've been an amature inventor for a long time"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way"

Al Jarreau, Musician

"I think there are problems with compact disc copy protection that can't be resolved"

Edward Felten, Scientist

"RFID is going to get its technical embedding time it needs as serious players are not going to get involved on a sufficient scale with something that might not work"

Mike Marsh, Athlete

"Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally"

John McKinley, Politician

"The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age"

Joe Cocker, Musician

"People didn't stop spending money, they just spent it on things that complement their PCs"

Stephen Baker, Athlete

"What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful"

Barbara Lee, Politician

"While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility"

Lee De Forest, Inventor

"Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS"

Bill Hayden, Politician

"Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs"

Rob Glaser, Businessman

"I think we always move from imitation to assimilation to innovation, but I can't name you 20 people outside those we've already recognized who ever got to point three: innovation"

David Baker, Composer

"Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology"

David Bromstad, Designer

"I'd like to have the flying car, I think that'd be really cool"

Rupert Grint, Actor

"I want to make smart television"

Michael Ironside, Actor

"Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems"

Stewart Alsop, Writer

"So let's say you're using XYZ product and you want to do something very sophisticated. You subscribe to this thing, you hit a button, and a CA expert pops up in video"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity, and I wish them the best of luck"

Ron Perlman, Actor

"Today, 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap"

Bob Graham, Politician

"We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character"

Oliver Joseph Lodge, Physicist

"We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV"

Michael K. Powell, Politician

"The comparison to the old world is something to get excited about. We have the potential for more choice and innovation, and a different regulatory environment that doesn't place as much weight on economic regulations of terms and conditions"

Michael K. Powell, Politician

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