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Technology Quotes
"Technology has transformed the world into a global village. And communities, families, friends, etc., into local islands."
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"We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts."
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"I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness."
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"There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters."
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"And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn."
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"First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation."
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"I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price."
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"We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives."
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"I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today."
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"While there have been terrific advances in the state of technology around heuristics, behavior blocking, and things like that, technology is only a part of the approach to solving the problem with the more important aspect involving putting the right process in place."
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"We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works."
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"Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set."
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"What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology."
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"What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds."
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"The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website."
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"Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies)."
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"What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure."
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"We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids."
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"By no means do I think that playing games online is wrong or rude. However, constantly sending requests is an act of bad manners as well as being very annoying to the one receiving them."
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"It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology."
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"When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted."
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"The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large."
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"The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport."
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"If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive."
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"It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are."
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"The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology."
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"Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads."
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"During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts."
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"Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished-which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure of the entire century, about to rise over Paris, was made of that doomed material. I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure been more technologically advanced, materially obsolescent, and gloriously pointless all at the same time."
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"Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail."
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"I was once a student in a punk T-Shirt hooked on screwed-up scenarios. That's how I became the esteemed cultural figure that I am today."
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"The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body."
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"Digital IT has a "hybrid nature. IT management philosophy is transforming from "built to last, to "wired for change."
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"There is one major problem with anti-virus software: It needs updating. Users cannot be relied upon to have even the anti-virus software in the first place, let alone be able or willing to pay for the updates."
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"We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both."
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"Short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously."
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"I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition theusers to employ each other the way they employ machines."
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"Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle."
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"A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things."
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"CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people."
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"What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime."
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"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
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"This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem."
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"I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes."
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"The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine."
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"Being digital-ready is an overarching approach via building a set of "digital -flavored cultures and taking a series of stepwise practices."
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"At its core, Agile is a mindset."
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"First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure."
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"A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own."
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