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Technology Quotes


"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."


"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."


"With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time."


"People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies."


"Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present."


"There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal."


"We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race."


"I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap."


"For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace."


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


"If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it."


"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."


"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've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat."


"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."


"I see technology as being an extension of the human body."


"I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore."


"Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology."


"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."


"I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed."


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


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


"Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else."


"There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it."


"Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future."


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


"None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software."


"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field."


"Document preparation systems will also require large screen displays."


"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."


"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries."


"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."


"There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity."


"Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology."


"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."


"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."


"In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology."


"Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology."


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


"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."


"A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages."
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