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Technology Quotes
"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."
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"These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms."
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"Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality."
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"Some people think technology has the answers."
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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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"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."
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"We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost."
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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 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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"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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"Life without the Internet is unimaginable."
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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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"More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation."
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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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"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."
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"The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
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"Hardware works best when it matters the least."
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"During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Software comes from heaven when you have good hardware."
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"In future, brainwave is a media of universal language."
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"You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars."
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"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."
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"So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology."
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"If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is."
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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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"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."
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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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"I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television."
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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 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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"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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"I'll never buy a cell phone, I'd rather die than have a cell phones. Cell phones are the 21st century's ball and chain."
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"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."
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"Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves."
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"You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything."
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"Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R."
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"The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology."
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"I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore."
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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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"I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go."
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"Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did."
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"The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it."
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"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."
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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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"His cell phone didn't work in Three Pines, and neither did email. He almost expected to see messages fluttering back and forth in the sky above the village, unable to descend."
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"The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever."
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"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split."
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"I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type."
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