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Technology Quotes
"Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by the U.S. Department of Commerce."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media."
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"Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems."
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"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."
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"The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers."
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"And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living."
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"When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste."
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"The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world."
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"What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology."
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"Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic 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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"What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds."
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"Posting your thoughts on any social media site is like telling you most deeply held secret to the town gossip. Not a wise move."
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"I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion."
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"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."
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"I've been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat."
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"The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology."
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"We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires."
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"We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids."
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"Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal."
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"Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology."
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"One of the things that has been truly incredible to observe though, is the amount of venture investment that has gone into early stage security technology."
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"They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought."
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"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."
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"We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'"
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"I never thought that someday men will also use an iPAD."
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"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."
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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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"I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced."
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"The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years."
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"Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us."
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"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."
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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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"We're not going to make Evolution or any of our other products depend on Mono anytime in the near future."
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"It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field."
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"Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects."
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"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."
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"Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around."
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"The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body."
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"In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me."
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"Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil."
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"Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price."
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"When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore."
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"With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot."
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"It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero."
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"The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers."
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"By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another."
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