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Technology Quotes
"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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"I like the word 'autopilot' more than I like the word 'self-driving.' 'Self-driving' sounds like it's going to do something you don't want it to do. 'Autopilot' is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars."
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"I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years."
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"It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create."
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"If we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives."
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"Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy."
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"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
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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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"Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world."
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"India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology."
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"In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic."
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"In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile."
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"My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars."
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"Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise."
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"Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology."
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"Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today."
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"Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system."
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"But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before."
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"The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere."
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"We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will."
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"In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology."
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"Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present."
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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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"Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering."
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"Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists."
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"Vents were added to the rear bonnet in 1972 and resulted in wet engines and starting problems, and then extra drip-trays to compensate. From 1968 the Beetle got the right side fuel flap that dodgy people used to break open to steal your gas " or your fuel cap " another hard to find item if lost!"
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"But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications , targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets."
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"If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems."
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"Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn."
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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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"The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
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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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"Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all."
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"I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!"
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"Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do."
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"I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both."
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"Some people think technology has the answers."
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"There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it."
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"One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem."
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"I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II."
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"I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy."
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"The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration."
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"Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down."
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"If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it."
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"The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare."
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"The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work."
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"With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time."
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