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Technology Quotes


"In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important."


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


"This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing."


"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."


"Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do."



"If I'm about to forget my kid's birthday, I want the phone to scream at me until I do something about it."


"Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one."


"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."


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


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



"The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large."


"Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development."


"I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology."


"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."


"Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe."


"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."


"Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned."


"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."


"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."



"Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk."


"And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue."



"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."


"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."


"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate."



"Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present."


"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."


"I wonder when god will get a microchip?"


"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."


"Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!"


"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."


"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."


"And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years."


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


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



"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."



"So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction."


"The technology of the time dictated the way things looked."



"My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology."


"The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding."


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


"If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press."


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



"Difference between TV and the internet was how far you sat from the screen. TV was an 8 foot activity, and you were a consumer. The internet was a 16 inch activity, and you participated. I think the sitting down thing is similar. You're not going to buy an armoir while standing on the subway."


"All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things."


"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."



"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 further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule."


"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."
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