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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 technology backbone is no longer an afterthought."
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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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"I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology."
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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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"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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"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."
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"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
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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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"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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"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 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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"My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person."
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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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"We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us."
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"My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace."
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"The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village."
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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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"The weakest link in any chain of security is not the technology itself, but the person operating it; iron gates have no compassion to appeal to, nor fears to exploit, nor insecurities to use to one's advantage. They are, however, operated by us " by beings of unlimited vulnerability and limited energy. Why waste time brute-forcing what can be easily circumvented by a clever façade and a crimson tongue?"
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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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"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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"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
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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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"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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"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible."
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"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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"Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content."
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"Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board."
43
"We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere."
43
"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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"The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds."
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"What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done."
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"Nothing is less instructive than a machine."
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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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"With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless."
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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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"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
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"You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles."
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