Technology & Innovation: Technology Quotes

"What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"All tools have intrinsic politics, and technology is the tool of now"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy the next model calculator the very next month for a lower price than I sold the older one for!"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"After the Apple II was introduced, then came the Commodore and the Tandy TRS-80"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right, building parts of the browser into the operating system. Then I thought it out and came up with reasons why it was a monopoly"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"I'd learned enough about circuitry in high school electronics to know how to drive a TV and get it to draw - shapes of characters and things"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"Atari is a very sad story"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"I had a TV set and a typewriter, and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen"

Steve Wozniak, Businessman

"When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy"

Al Gore, Vice President

"How could this Y2K be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft?"

Al Gore, Vice President

"Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'"

Norman Ralph Augustine, Author

"Everybody has a camcorder now, and they exploit these incidents and blow them all out of proportion"

Jim Fowler, Scientist

"Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done"

Ridley Scott, Director

"Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal"

Norman Borlaug, Scientist

"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough"

Walter Cronkite, Journalist

"The hardest thing is to go to sleep at night, when there are so many urgent things needing to be done. A huge gap exists between what we know is possible with today's machines and what we have so far been able to finish"

Donald Knuth, Scientist

"Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent"

Edward Dahlberg, Novelist

"We can't live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, we're all doomed"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do!"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work"

Dean Kamen, Inventor

"Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon"

Marc Andreessen, Businessman

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