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Technology Quotes


"However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted."


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


"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."


"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."


"My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race."


"However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute."


"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."


"Technology transforms people's lives. From mitigating poverty to simplifying processes, ending corruption to providing better services, technology is omnipresent. It has become the single-most important instrument of human progress."


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


"So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled."


"Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state."


"Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true."


"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."


"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."


"Computer are incredible coded, they fascinating me... as for sex... I don't need it, there is pornography so much that I won't finish watching... so far I won't...live so much on this planet to check out everything."



"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?"


"Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is."


"Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique."


"Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology."


"We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space."



"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."


"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."



"And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living."



"The important thing is the diversity available on the Web."


"I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm."


"Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich."


"Posting your thoughts on any social media site is like telling you most deeply held secret to the town gossip. Not a wise move."


"Can we go back to using Facebook for what it was originally for - looking up exes to see how fat they got?"


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


"Digital organizations can become hyper-connected and "super-creative via dealing with innovation dilemmas collectively."


"Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future."


"Installing massive amounts of wireless devices into every city may eventually be proven to be a global weather modification system."


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


"The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this."


"Computers and mobile devices are becoming known for their inherent insecurities and the ability to damage the long term health of the users."


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


"I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before - just to discover something together. This is always my dream."


"Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation, and that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can."


"The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes."


"It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance."



"From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start."



"Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated."


"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."


"You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website."


"Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film."


"You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8."



"Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects."


"If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently."


"Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down."
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