Famous Quotes & Sayings

Beeban Kidron

The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.

Beck

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

Beck

When you use some of the more modern recording devices and Pro Tools, when you get into the technology, you are aching to get into some territory.

Barry Ritholtz

History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

Barry Lopez

Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation?

B. F. Skinner

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

Billy Corgan

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

Carrie Snow

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

Beth Simone Noveck

In the 21st century, you have to use technology as one of the tools in the toolkit to bring about social change.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.

Bede Griffiths

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

Beck

My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the fence about things. They're afraid to commit to anything for fear of seeming like a cliche. They're afraid to commit to their lives because they see so much of the world as a cliche.

B. B. King

Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.

B. F. Skinner

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

Bill Sienkiewicz

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much

Bill Sienkiewicz

And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.

Bill Sienkiewicz

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States

B. B. King

I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer

Mitch Leigh

My advice to singers is always the same: 'Don't sing the song, sing the lyric.'

Dave Mustaine

I'm not a great singer

Bjork

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

Donald Fagen

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

Donald Fagen

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

Debbie Harry

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

Andre Holland

I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.

Andre Braugher

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.