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Technology Quotes


"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."


"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."


"I never thought that someday men will also use an iPAD."


"Life without the Internet is unimaginable."


"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."


"There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time."


"We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people."


"For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date."


"Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail."


"There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium."


"Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster."


"Better biofuels are a really big deal. That means we can precisely engineer the molecules in the fuel chain and optimize them along the way. So, if all goes well, they're going to have designer bugs in warm vats that are eating and digesting sugars to excrete better biofuels. I guess that's better living through bugs."


"As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action."


"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."


"Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other."


"I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting."


"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."


"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."


"The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept."


"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."


"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."


"The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had."


"It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter."


"I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television."


"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."


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


"Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense."


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


"We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously."


"Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology."


"One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word."


"In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology."


"I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future."


"Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky."


"The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors."


"What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together."


"This will result in wells that will make a substantial improvement in the recovery factor just because they are absolutely in the proper place within the reservoir for the purposes of drainage."


"Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price."


"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."


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


"The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux."


"But my view is that you need a system at the border. You need some fencing but you need technology. You need boots on the ground. And then you need to have interior enforcement of our nation's immigration laws inside the country. And that means dealing with the employers who still consistently hire illegal labor."


"My opinion is it's a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars."


"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."


"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."


"It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great."
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