Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"You wonder about it, and wonder how will I make an instrument that can handle this kind of a problem?"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly"

Uwe Boll, Director

"The speed of communication, the speed of information transfer, the cheapness of communication, the ease of moving things around the world are a difference in kind as well as degree"

Paul A. Volcker, Economist

"Renewable ethanol represents a clear opportunity to grow a significant portion of our own fuel locally, and begin to break the hold imported fuels have on us"

Mike May, Businessman

"Certainly, the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry"

Michael Oxley, Politician

"Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency"

Hugh Sidey, Journalist

"Everything we are doing is on the cutting edge of so many different industries and so many different interests. We're out there in the sunshine, and it feels fine"

Hilary Rosen, Businesswoman

"Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants"

Wilson Greatbatch, Inventor

"Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country"

Richard Lugar, Politician

"I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations"

Ace Frehley, Musician

"From a reality perspective, I'm sure part of that is true, but this is the largest blackout in U.S. history. If that is not a signal that we have got a problem that needs to be fixed, I don't know what is"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States, for instance"

Gianni Agnelli, Businessman

"With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable"

Greg Walden, Politician

"I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with"

Gerry Mulligan, Musician

"But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out"

Debbie Harry, Musician

"The technology of the time dictated the way things looked"

Douglas Trumbull, Director

"A precisely made iron chain 22 yards in length, consisting of 100 links"

Edmund Gunter, Mathematician

"The Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act expires at the end of this year. Thus, we must act quickly to ensure our constituents continue to receive the services they enjoy"

Eliot Engel, Politician

"Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products"

David Rose, Musician

"I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information"

Jim Cramer, Businessman

"That's one of the most exciting things about Michigan's future. We need to, we must capitalize on our alternative-energy vehicles that we can produce right here"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"Most of us feel overburdened by information, although I would say the overloaded feeling comes more from coordinating all of the information and responding to it"

David Rose, Musician

"With respect to the environment in our state and our state's future - in addition to water which is very important here - I think it is crucial for him to make a sincere commitment to energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, by helping us to produce those cars of the future"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning, replacing magnetic cores in memories, and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning"

Gordon Moore, Businessman

"I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe"

Griffin Dunne, Actor

"Television won't be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night"

Darryl F. Zanuck, Director

"We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain"

Douglas Trumbull, Director

"Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products"

Jay Chiat, Businessman

"James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies"

Joe Morton, Actor

"Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology"

Jay Chiat, Businessman

"There is no reason why, with the huge potential for market out there in the world for fuel-efficient vehicles, we can't be the cutting edge for change"

Jennifer Granholm, Politician

"Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline"

Mark Kirk, Politician

"We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States"

Majel Barrett, Actress

"There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second"

David Rose, Musician

"Integral to the orb is our low cost long-range wireless radio data system and a protocol that allows us to send this data over 90% of the US population every 15 minutes throughout the day"

David Rose, Musician

"You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach, but that's going to even out in the next two or three years, anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now"

Chuck D., Musician

"The orb allows for constant dynamic feedback"

David Rose, Musician

"Our system allows you to respond to the information that is important to you. It allows you to sense and be attuned to more streams of information in parallel"

David Rose, Musician

"Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly"

Harold Stephen Black, Inventor

"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century"

Gabriel Lippmann, Scientist

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