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Technology Quotes
"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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"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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"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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"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."
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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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"The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration."
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"And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living."
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"The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station."
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"Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally."
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"We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets."
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"I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up."
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"A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding."
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"People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters."
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"Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world."
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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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"I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born."
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"Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward."
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"Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right."
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"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up."
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"I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology."
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"I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can."
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"Installing massive amounts of wireless devices into every city may eventually be proven to be a global weather modification system."
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"Agile and DevOps are for harnessing integration, interaction, and innovation."
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"I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper."
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"Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel."
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"Big Linux deployments have reached the point where it's become a real problem for administrators that they don't have nice tools to manage their servers and desktops."
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"Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn't like it, it is it."
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"Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn."
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"Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada."
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"New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that."
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"People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?"
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"If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?"
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"The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands."
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"But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic."
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"We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity."
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"Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development."
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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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"The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We're trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat."
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"Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us."
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"I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy."
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"Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did."
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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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"There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry."
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"Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect."
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"My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology."
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"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."
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"Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down."
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"And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb."
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