Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"I use my mind to solve problems and invent things"

Temple Grandin, Educator

"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years"

John von Neumann, Mathematician

"The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"I think 2012 is the year when consumers all around the world start saying no to feature phones and start saying yes to smartphones"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?"

Tom Clancy, Novelist

"Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents"

Rod Blagojevich, Politician

"In short, software is eating the world"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

"Above all, it is important to point out that we can only maintain our prosperity in Europe if we belong to the most innovative regions in the world"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"I think Linux is a great thing because Linux is an alternative to Windows, and because of all the operating systems that are at all relevant today, Unix is the best of a bad lot"

Jamie Zawinski, Scientist

"I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions"

Larry Wall, Author

"Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data"

John Naisbitt, Businessman

"Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand"

Donald Norman, Scientist

"The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship"

John Moody, Businessman

"In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car"

John Moody, Businessman

"Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop"

J. D. Hayworth, Politician

"During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts"

David Bohm, Scientist

"An invention has to make sense in the world it finishes in, not in the world it started"

Tim O'Reilly, Publisher

"The space shuttle is a better and safer rocket than it was before the Challenger accident"

Sally Ride, Astronaut

"There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"I said, 'Okay, it's the year 2000, I'm getting a computer and a Palm Pilot.' I know how to check my e-mail, and I've listed some phone numbers on it. Half the time the battery has gone out so I can't use it"

Marc Jacobs, Designer

"Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing emissions. This is truly an environmentally responsible source of energy"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home"

Ken Olsen, Businessman

"I much prefer the modern world"

Keith Henson, Scientist

"Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation"

Jared Diamond, Author

"Multimedia scares me off"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"It's a massive motor in a tiny, lightweight car"

Carroll Shelby, Designer

"People recognize intellectual property the same way they recognize real estate. People understand what property is. But it's a new kind of property, and so the understanding uses new control surfaces. It uses a new way of defining the property"

Michael Nesmith, Musician

"Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media"

Bruce Jackson, Public Servant

"Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity"

Jacques Ellul, Philosopher

"Having your own character in a video game is pretty cool"

Josie Maran, Model

"It is the fate of operating systems to become free"

Neal Stephenson, Writer

"The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files"

Timothy Murphy, Soldier

"Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other"

Kevin Kelly, Editor

"I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression"

Adolf Galland, Soldier

"Invention is the mother of necessity"

Thorstein Veblen, Economist

"Technology is not neutral; it reflects the values of the people who build it and the societies that deploy it"

Alex Karp, Businessman

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