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Technology Quotes
"Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master."
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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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"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."
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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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"I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology."
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"The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
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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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"The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light."
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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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"Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him."
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"My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner."
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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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"Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible."
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"We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us."
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"We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences."
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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 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."
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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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"The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
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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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"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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"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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"And then lo and behold IBM, Apple and Motorola took an ad in all the newspapers, double page ad, and said, announcing the chip that they were now able to manufacture it and that they were going to kill Intel."
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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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"Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of 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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"What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done."
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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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"The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that."
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"When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen."
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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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"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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"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."
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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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"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
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"Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board."
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"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
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"We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere."
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