Famous Quotes & Sayings

David R. Brower

All technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent

David R. Brower

To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.

Carl Sagan

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

C. Wright Mills

Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions.

Bruce Tulgan

We are living through the most profound changes in the economy since the Industrial Revolution. Technology, globalization, and the accelerating pace of change have yielded chaotic markets, fierce competition, and unpredictable staff requirements.

Bruno Walter

By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.

Bruno Latour

Technology is society made durable.

Bryan Adams

Focus on your music and not technology.

Carlos Slim

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

Carlos Slim

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

Carlos Slim

Technology is going to transform people's lives and society everywhere in the world. I spend most of my time studying new technologies. My main task is to understand what's going on and try to see where we can fit in.

Carlos Slim

In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.

Bryan Robson

In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest.

Chip Kidd

I am all for the iPad, but trust me - smelling it will get you nowhere.

Chip Kidd

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.

Charles C. Mann

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

Charlie Munger

In Gillette's case, they keep surfing along new technology which is fairly simple by the standards of microchips. But it's hard for competitors to do. So they've been able to stay constantly near the edge of improvements in shaving.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Bob Brown

Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

Bob Brown

There are better alternatives, ... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

Bob Barr

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

Kurt Vonnegut

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

Mark Cuban

In today's world of technology we should no longer be using outdated paper processes to accomplish tasks such as requisitions, reports, approvals, and purchase orders

Mark Cuban

I had been in the technology business for so long, I had seen the PC-bubble come and burst, I had seen the local area and wide area networking-bubble come and burst, it was no shock that the internet-bubble was going to burst.

Geoffrey Moore

There is no new technology in the iPod.

Until there is such a requirement we're not going to put that technology in place at this point.

Bob Lewis

The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application.

Bill Walsh

There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.

Bill Watterson

HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.

Bjorn Lomborg

Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don't have a technology to solve that, right? So the point is not to prioritize problems; the point is to prioritize solutions to problems.

Bjarne Stroustrup

To many managers, getting rid of the arrogant, undisciplined, over-paid, technology-obsessed, improperly-dressed etc. programmers would appear to be a significant added benefit

Biz Stone

People first. Technology second.

Bill Ford

When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four billion clean cars on the road are still four billion cars, and a traffic jam with no emissions is still a traffic jam.