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Technology Quotes



"The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story."


"More pathetic than the digital age is the people who love it. They buy right into the "newer is always better" ideology and they can't seem to grasp that the fun of VHS tapes, super 8 film, darkroom photography and vinyl records is far more worthwhile and human than the cold, high-tech atmosphere of everything being digitized. As the 21st century progresses, yeah, we'll have our Netflix and our cellular phones and our artificial intelligence and our implanted microchips - and future generations will have lost something valuable. Sadly, they won't even know what they've lost because we're taking it all away from them."


"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."


"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."


"Agile and DevOps are for harnessing integration, interaction, and innovation."


"When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption."


"As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor."


"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."


"So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology."


"Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality."



"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."


"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."


"Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never."


"I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology."



"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split."


"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."


"Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn."


"We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost."



"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."


"The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger."



"We had the Windows app store in Windows 8, but one of the big changes in the design of Windows 10 is to make sure that the app store is front and center where our usage is, which is the desktop."


"Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities."


"Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe."


"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."


"Life without the Internet is unimaginable."


"I got to get the right people in the right job. Because a lot of costs can be taken out in the context of your administration without the legislature.For example, using technology to do more with less. Using technology to fight fraud. Reorganizing and streamlining can be done within the context of the administration."


"As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications."


"The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm."



"Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it."


"So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation."


"To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing."


"Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now."


"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."


"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."


"These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms."



"As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis."


"The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists."


"Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes."


"You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge."


"For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes."



"In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances."


"Hardware works best when it matters the least."


"On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense."


"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."



"The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly."
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