Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norman Lamm

To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment and devastation of the resources of nature, is a piece of atavistic nonsense.

Orrin Hatch

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

Oliver Sacks

Although I think it is wonderful to have the whole world of music available in something that small and to have it conveyed with such fidelity almost straight into the brain, I think the technology is also a danger.

Nouriel Roubini

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

Nouriel Roubini

The gains from technology must be channeled to a broader base of the population than has benefited so far.

Emilio Estevez

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

Emilio Estevez

We've lost touch and allowed technology to take precedence over organic nature. But let's not forget that those microchips in our computers came from elements of the earth.

Ellen DeGeneres

So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius.

Eric S. Raymond

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.

Eric S. Raymond

Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.

Eric Schmidt

I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon,

Eric Schmidt

Washington is an incumbent protection machine. Technology is fundamentally disruptive.

Eric Schmidt

In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.

Eric Schmidt

Technology is always evolving, and companies.. not just search companies.. can't be afraid to take advantage of change.

Eric Schmidt

Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user.

Eric Schmidt

There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.

Eric Schmidt

Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.

Eric Allman

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

Eric Allman

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

Eric Alterman

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

Emily Greene Balch

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Hod Lipson

Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things.

Henry Selick

Anyone can buy CG technology. It's not that it's easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they're incredibly hard to make.

Henry Petroski

Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.

Henry Petroski

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

Helen Mirren

What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be.

Heather Donahue

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

Heather Donahue

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

Hideo Kojima

90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology.

Henry Jenkins

The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.

Henry Cuellar

At the current rate of 28 miles of SBInet [Secure Border Initiative network] technology every 4.5 years, it would take 320 years - or until the year 2330 - to deploy SBInet technology across the Southwest border. That statistic would be comical if the subject matter were not so serious.

Helen Clark

Innovation applied across the board of development is having a huge impact, and can have more. All sorts of technology can provide shortcuts, can overcome obstacles which once seemed insuperable.