Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tech predictions can go up as well as down

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

Technology, of course, is not the only distraction.

It's been a very technical evacuation for the people.

That's one of the things that technology has done,

Nick Knight

That may well be a technical thing - it's something I will look at during the winter,

Scott Stewart

That type of technical analysts does not have a lot of value.

Alex Smith

It's the same type of technology, now just on steroids.

It's the same story. Technology is hot, and everything else is not.

Hal Sparks

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

Gretchen Rubin

Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.

Herbie Mann

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.

Herman Kahn

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.

Herman Kahn

Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

Herbie Hancock

I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it.

Herbie Hancock

Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.

Jill Tarter

In the future, will our technologies help stabilise or planet and population, leading to a very long lifetime for us? Or will we destroy our world and its inhabitants, after only a brief appearance on the cosmic stage?

Jerry Harrison

I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance.

Jennifer Egan

Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

Jeff Wall

One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then, digital technology is leading, in my work at least, toward a greater reliance on handmaking because the assembly and montage of the various parts of the picture is done very carefully by hand.

Jeff Goodby

I do think that in some ways, the complexity of technology, the things that we all have to deal with in media, have created a new kind of person that is sensitive to media, but also sensitive to the kind of beliefs that people have. And this person can put the two together.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.

Jeffrey Eugenides

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

Jim Allchin

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.

Jim Balsillie

I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.

Jim Balsillie

No other technology company other than Apple has successfully transitioned their platform. It's almost never done, and it's way harder than you realize. This transition is where tech companies go to die.

Jill Abramson

When we first started, we would message all the time, ... He would log on, and mostly we would just message back and forth at the beginning of the relationship. Now, we use the computer, phones, letters, airlines - everything.

Jesse Schell

Game mechanics are the core of what a game truly is. They are the interactions and relationships that remain when all of the aesthetics, technology, and story are stripped away.

Jesse Schell

Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?

Jesse Jackson

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

Jennifer Morrison

We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.

Jennifer Pahlka

Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.