Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments"

John Patrick, Playwright

"In some industry markets, high quality can be tied to making more money, but I am sure by now all of us know the computer industry is not like that"

Theo de Raadt, Scientist

"Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened"

Lee R. Raymond, Businessman

"I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery"

Henry Bessemer, Scientist

"We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives"

Freeman Thomas, Designer

"For any new technology, there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes"

Hugh Grant, Actor

"Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route"

Theodore Bikel, Actor

"My own view is that this is going to be the biggest technology revolution that we've seen yet"

Sam Altman, Entrepreneur

"I can make just such ones if I had tools, and I could make tools if I had tools to make them with"

Eli Whitney, Inventor

"The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light"

Paul Virilio, Writer

"Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future"

Marc Morial, Politician

"User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process"

Jesse James Garrett, Businessman

"As to Bell's talking telegraph, it only creates interest in scientific circles... Its commercial values will be limited"

Elisha Gray, Inventor

"People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them"

Bruce Scheneier, Writer

"These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper"

Henri Coanda, Inventor

"Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present"

Scott Cook, Businessman

"Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me"

David Arquette, Actor

"It is important that the United States move with all deliberate speed to develop and get into usage alternative fuels that will allow us to end our dependence on foreign oil"

Virgil Goode, Politician

"Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche"

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statesman

"Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist"

Steven Levy, Journalist

"The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought"

Nick Price, Athlete

"The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule"

Nick Johnson, Athlete

"We must move away from our dependency on fossil fuels, and I am glad that GM has invested over $1 billion in hydrogen fuel cells cars to meet this goal"

Albert Wynn, Politician

"We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids"

Willie Aames, Actor

"In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam"

James Nasmyth, Inventor

"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Men have become the tools of their tools"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

"I don't try to be a threat to Microsoft, mainly because I don't really see MS as competition. Especially not Windows-the goals of Linux and Windows are simply so different"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

"What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

"I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors, Linux Red Hat"

Linus Torvalds, Businessman

"Mechanization best serves mediocrity"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

"The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don't understand the software parts of it. And so you really can't make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple's the only company that has everything under one roof"

Steve Jobs, Businessman

"The medium is the message"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

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