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Technology Quotes


"I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology."


"Cosmoe works on any of the standard filesystems available for Linux."


"Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization."


"The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers."


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


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


"Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach."


"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."


"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."



"The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology."


"If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy."



"If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology."



"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."


"I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient."


"I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing."


"IT is the key component in catalyzing digital innovation and building up differentiated business capabilities nowadays."


"I also become the local computer nerd. The administration brings me in to fix all the computers, I create viruses to invade at a specific day and time. They call me in, and I eradicate my own virus, only to plant another one to go into effect a couple months later. They ask me why I can't just fix the computers once and for all. I tell them to quit going to porn sites and it will stay fixed. That shuts them up every time."


"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."


"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."


"All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things."


"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."


"The stuff of life turned out to be not a quivering, glowing, wondrous gel but a contraption of tiny jigs, springs, hinges, rods, sheets, magnets, zippers, and trapdoors, assembled by a data tape whose information is copied, downloaded and scanned."


"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops."


"In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on."


"In future, brainwave is a media of universal language."


"Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist."


"There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions."


"Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going."


"The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day."


"There is no sense in owning the copyright unless you are going to use it. I don't think anyone wants to hold all of this stuff in a vault and not let anybody have it. It's only worth something once it's popular."


"When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense."


"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."


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


"Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems."


"The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule."



"The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology."


"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."


"Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true."


"Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened."


"The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming."


"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."


"It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges."


"Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal."


"With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot."


"This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits."
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