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Technology Quotes
"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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"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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"We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost."
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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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"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
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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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"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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"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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"India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information 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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"However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Killing Intel, I, I just had to resign from the Apple Board."
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"But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer."
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"I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II."
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"The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story."
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"Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it."
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"In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic."
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"If we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives."
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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 think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user."
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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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"Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe."
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"Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists."
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"You look at marketing: everything that's happening in marketing is digitized. Everything that's happening in finance is digitized. So pretty much every industry, every function in every industry, has a huge element that's driven by information technology. It's no longer discrete."
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"Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now."
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"I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group."
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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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"We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space."
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"Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost."
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"The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general."
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"During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer."
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"You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8."
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"The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction."
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"Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that."
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"You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles."
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"I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology."
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"The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare."
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"Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true."
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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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"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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"Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware."
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"Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first."
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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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"If I'm about to forget my kid's birthday, I want the phone to scream at me until I do something about it."
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