Quotes about tech
technology doctors decision
Americans have the right to have their medical decisions made by them and their doctors, and not by those bureaucrats sitting behind a computer screen hundreds of miles away. Al Gore
technology civilization today
Our civilization is experiencing unprecedented changes across many realms, largely due to the rapid advancement of information technology. The ability to code and understand the power of computing is crucial to success in today's hyper-connected world. Al Gore
technology opportunity innovation
I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use that kind of innovation to help usher in a new economy that doesn't rely on carbon-spewing fossil fuels. Al Gore
technology numbers population
Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature Al Gore
technology waiting challenges
The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed.... But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait. Al Gore
technology thinking impact
You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact. Aimee Mullins
technology support deployment
The incredible expansion of mobile technologies is another important factor that will both drive and support the deployment of workplace learning tools and systems in the areas of performance support, particularly, but also in areas such as expert location, crowdsourcing-based problem solving and others. Charles Jennings
technology simple looks
This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved. Charles Kettering
technology invention inventor
An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously. Charles Kettering
technology marketing conversation
Twitter is not a technology. It's a conversation and it's happening with or without you. Charlene Li
technology community levels
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. Charles Bass
technology policy-making issues
I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy. Charles Bass
technology design administration
Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs? Charles Bass
technology labs weapons
The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming. Charles Bass
technology government design
The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs. Charles Bass
technology passing passings
It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward. Bre Pettis
technology thinking artist
Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that. Bono
technology doctors world
We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American. Barbara Boxer
technology russia culture
Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide. Arkady Volozh
technique spontaneity combat
In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes. Bruce Lee
technology people scary
With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting. Brittany Murphy
technology insanity choices
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now. Eckhart Tolle
technology use feedback
Intelligence is the source of technology. If we can use technology to improve intelligence, that closes the loop and potentially creates a positive feedback cycle. Eliezer Yudkowsky
technology years historical
Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years. Eliezer Yudkowsky
technical time various
There's always pressure on filming. There's the weather, people, various different technical problems. There's always pressure! And there's never really enough time for anything, really! Sylvester McCoy
technology people climate
I'm not so interested in technology for technology's sake. I don't need incredibly sophisticated climate-control systems. And I'm absolutely amazed at the time people spend exchanging messages; I don't have a lot of time left over for those things. Annabelle Selldorf
technology media long
The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet. Clay Shirky
technology thinking data
What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units - the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging - free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints - seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets. Clay Shirky
technology interesting boring
Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting. Clay Shirky
technology want couches
Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.' Clay Shirky
technology different able
In most instances, biotechnology, though a radically different approach, is a sustaining technology: It's a dramatically improved way of targeting problems that we hadn't been able to solve with the conventional approach of mainstream pharmaceutical companies. Clayton Christensen
technology innovation trends
Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort they wanted, and because they carefully studied market trends and systematically allocated investment capital to innovations that promised the best returns, they lost their positions of leadership. Clayton Christensen
technology monopoly-power regulation
Regulatory fiat cannot create a market at a technologically interdependent interface. And by the same token, regulation and so-called monopoly power rarely prevail at modular interfaces between stages of value-added technology. Clayton Christensen