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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 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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"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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"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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"Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists."
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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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"Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down."
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"Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world."
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"My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars."
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"If we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives."
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"Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board."
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"The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world."
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"Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology."
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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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"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 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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"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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"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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"In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic."
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"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
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"As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor."
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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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"With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time."
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"I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II."
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"There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use 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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"In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of 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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"India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology."
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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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"There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes."
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"I was recently looking at what they can actually do to reduce consumption of petrol. It would be quite possible to build automobiles out of carbon fibre that would be just as strong, weigh 10 times less and consume 10 times less petrol."
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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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"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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"Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place."
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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 today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average."
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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 must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race."
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"Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it."
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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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"There's an evolution from, today we tell computers to do stuff for us, to where computers can actually do stuff for us. For example, if I go and pick up my kids, it would be good for my car to be aware that my kids have entered the car and change the music to something that's appropriate for them."
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"Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn."
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"We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way."
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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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"What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people."
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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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