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Technology Quotes
"But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason."
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"Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before."
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"At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss."
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"Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content."
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"When I was a teenager in the late 30's and early 40's, electronics wasn't a word. You were interested in radio if you were interested in electronics."
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"I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology."
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"Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types."
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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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"Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology."
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"We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way."
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"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."
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"While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible."
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"What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out."
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"Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools."
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"This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has."
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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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"With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into."
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"The important thing is the diversity available on the Web."
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"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."
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"I think there's a tendency for modern man to become dominated by gadgets and machines, taking us further and further away from the things I've been talking about."
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"Today there are hundreds of millions of mobile devices, but you do have to know a bit about what each device is capable of doing in order to approach it as a developer."
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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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"On privacy issues, it's just like hundreds of years ago when people said, 'I would rather put my money under my pillow than in a bank.' But today, banks know how to protect money much better than you do. Today, we may not have the answers to privacy issues, but I believe our young people will come up with the solutions."
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"The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly."
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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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"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."
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"Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things."
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"Everybody who runs a Web site knows we're not assured of compatibility, and we could end up with a split."
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"I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe."
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"We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on."
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"The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it."
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"The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology."
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"Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence."
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"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."
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"The mobile phone acts as a cursor to connect the digital and physical."
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"Facebook asks me what's on my mind. Twitter asks me what's going on. LinkedIn wants me to reconnect with my colleagues. And YouTube tells me what to watch. Social Media is no reality show or Big Brother. It's but a smothering mother!"
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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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"Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo."
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"If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet."
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"Any idiot can put up a website."
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"The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere."
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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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"Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable."
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"I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them."
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"You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow - Don't take no for an answer - Take every opportunity you can to do something."
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"I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio."
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"Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest."
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