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Technology Quotes


"By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another."


"I very seldom worry about other systems. I concentrate pretty fully on just making Linux the best I can."


"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?'"


"Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in a darkened room using only your teeth."



"There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters."


"If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?"


"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."


"The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them."


"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."


"Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal."


"Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology."


"If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them."



"The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that."



"Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements."



"The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential."


"Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally."


"There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today."


"Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go."


"All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance."


"NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity."


"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."


"I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up."



"A text pops up on the screen. It's from Luis. I can't help but grin when I read his perfectly thought-out me."


"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."


"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."


"The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands."


"Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be."


"I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology."



"Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set."



"I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe."


"If the existence of Nuclear weapons has taught us anything it would simply be that just because we possess powerful technologies, it does not necessarily mean that we should use them. Unfortunately, we are currently on course to learn similarly grave lessons from other devastating technologies such Genetically Modified Foods, Chemtrails and HAARP."


"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."


"Enlightenment begins by getting acquainted with your inner voice or your higher self. The dialogue experienced in this process leads to a more comfortable, better-focused lifestyle. Over time this relationship blossoms into a higher and more efficient form of Self-Management. With practice, thoughts, feelings, emotions, and physical manifestations merge into a more harmonious state. This state of being allows for a softer, more gentile approach to life that not only benefits the individual, but the community as a whole."


"Any idiot can put up a website."


"We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts."


"I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness."


"Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water."


"We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new."


"U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected."



"One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices."



"Let's take flight simulation as an example. If you're trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You don't have to get in an airplane until late in the process."



"I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology."


"Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry."


"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."


"What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether."



"With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into."



"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."



"There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives."


"By no means do I think that playing games online is wrong or rude. However, constantly sending requests is an act of bad manners as well as being very annoying to the one receiving them."



"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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