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Technology Quotes
"Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master."
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"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."
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"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
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"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."
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"If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology."
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"I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology."
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"They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country."
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"The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies."
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"Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests."
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"The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light."
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"Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him."
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"We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences."
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"I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there."
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"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."
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"Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other."
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"My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person."
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"My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness."
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"Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that."
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"I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window."
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"Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That's an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can't cheat real connection. It's built up slowly. It's about trust and time."
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"We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us."
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"Human language is the new UI layer, bots are like new applications, and digital assistants are meta apps. Intelligence is infused into all of your interactions."
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"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
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"There is a new way with very very tiny fiber optics, which give an enormous high resolution. There are many many thousand fibers, very very close together with a very small diameter."
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"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."
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"We could definitely make a flying car - but that's not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that's super safe and quiet? Because if it's a howler, you're going to make people very unhappy."
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"The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology."
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"Project Xanadu is essentially my trademark. It was originally, and has returned to my arms as that."
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"The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village."
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"As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones."
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"Very few people that have installed solar photovoltaics (PV) on their home have realized that by spending an additional five thousand dollars that they can completely disconnect from the electrical utility."
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"Now it's computers and more computersand soon everybody will have one,3-year-olds will have computersand everybody will know everythingabout everybody elselong before they meet them.nobody will want to meet anybodyelse ever againand everybody will bea recluselike I am now."
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"Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology."
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"The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
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"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class."
26
"There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on."
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"Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap."
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"Nothing is less instructive than a machine."
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"I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology."
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"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
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"I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek."
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"What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done."
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"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible."
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"With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless."
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"To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless."
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"There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it."
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"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."
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"We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards."
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"Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk."
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