Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us"

Richard Dooling, Novelist

"A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens"

Tim Holden, Politician

"As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action"

Shoshana Zuboff, Educator

"I have a high degree of confidence about India's growth potential in IT"

Sanjay Kumar, Businessman

"I actually use a computer a lot. I have three computers that I use on a regular basis - one is on my desk top in my Washington office, another is at home, and I have my laptop that I use when I'm travelling"

Rick Boucher, Politician

"Only a couple of companies in the world have the experience of building these machines, although the market need, if RFID did take off, would be for about 1 million of the machines running in parallel"

Mike Marsh, Athlete

"Then I have a head mounted display which actually was designed for the military to do synchronized building entries and that's looking down at my hands, so projected on the big screen behind me, you can see my hands as I'm putting the tracks together"

Thomas Dolby, Musician

"The scanning of barcodes or the reading of RFID transponders generates data that is used in a software package to provide management or control information"

Mike Marsh, Athlete

"When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much"

Peter Mayhew, Actor

"There will be no support in the island of Ireland for building a nuclear power station"

Peter Hain, Politician

"Guess what - I am one of the ONLY senators in the whole United States Senate that is computer literate!"

Patty Murray, Politician

"By encouraging renewable energy sources such as wind energy, we boost South Dakota's economy, and we help reduce America's dependence on foreign oil"

Tim Johnson, Politician

"When you live in a networked environment, it's possible to separate data from applications"

Stephen Cambone, Politician

"Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home"

Steve Case, Businessman

"We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"The chip comes from silicon foundries who have been running their plants for the past fifty years, understand mass manufacture, and are the area that is most likely to understand the volume increase problem"

Mike Marsh, Athlete

"The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether"

Lev Yilmaz, Artist

"If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently"

Heather Donahue, Actress

"But with carefully chosen keyboard macros to activate it, Mass Copy is quick, convenient, and powerful. Most users who have mastered it depend heavily on it. That certainly includes me"

Robert Patterson, Writer

"Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail"

John M. McHugh, Politician

"The transponder requirements have three major sections, namely the chip; the antenna; and the assembly of the chip and the antenna onto the goods being labelled"

Mike Marsh, Athlete

"We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will"

Michael Chertoff, Public Servant

"Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the one I use the most. Due to limitations in how plugins can interact with Finale, Mass Copy has a somewhat unusual user interface"

Robert Patterson, Writer

"The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself"

Howard Aiken, Scientist

"From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened"

Thomas Dolby, Musician

"I don't know whether I'm, like, jumping the gun, but it's possible that in the future we may be able to use the information that we can't receive at the moment"

Sean Booth, Musician

"More and more, more and more digital, in particular, I think you'll see in our stores next year, as we start combining these digital products and they interface with each other, you'll see that represented in Wal-Mart"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology"

Lee Scott, Businessman

"These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day"

Steven Squyres, Scientist

"I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be"

Thomas Dolby, Musician

"The innovation is going to come, and that is good for everybody"

Hilary Rosen, Businesswoman

"The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil"

John M. McHugh, Politician

"When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted"

Hilary Rosen, Businesswoman

"But, we didn't have all the media that we do today"

Wanda Jackson, Musician

"In practical terms, the South Pointing Chariot was a simple direction finder. It could have been made to point in any direction - north, south, east or west"

Kit Williams, Author

"We have been getting ready to recycle more e-waste by investing in infrastructure, providing grants to local government, and working with industry"

Jay Weatherill, Politician

"It is instructive, for instance, to trace the computer industry's decline in vision, idealism, creativity, romance and sheer fun as it becomes more and more important and prosperous"

Robert Shea, Author

"And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example, for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"So we should preserve it. I don't think that digital storage is necessarily a good thing, but I definitely think that digital manipulation is interesting"

Sean Booth, Musician

"Regardless what technology is, I like analog too"

Lou Gramm, Musician

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