Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Miller

The best technique is none at all.

Henning Mankell

I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.

James Nesbitt

As fabulous as technology is, it can also make us very anxious.

This is not some technical or arcane requirement.

There was just nothing to go on. We didn't have the technology.

Philip Smith

There will be more volatility in the September-to-October period, especially in the tech sector.

David Shaw

This is how technology can make a difference.

Jaron Lanier

When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.

Jaron Lanier

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.

Jaron Lanier

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

Jaron Lanier

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

Jaron Lanier

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

Jaron Lanier

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

Jaron Lanier

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

Jaron Lanier

Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios. We want free online experiences so badly that we are happy to not be paid for information that comes from us now or ever. That sensibility also implies that the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth.

Jaron Lanier

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

Jaron Lanier

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.

Jaron Lanier

Humans change themselves through technology.

Jaron Lanier

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Janet Echelman

Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.

Jane Levy

I have very complex and complicated ideas about technology. It's such a prominent way that we communicate with each other. In ways, I think it's really positive, and in ways, I think it's really negative.

Ethan Zuckerman

The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.

Ethan Zuckerman

[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.

Jason Hirschhorn

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.

Jason Epstein

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

Carly Fiorina

We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act.

Carly Fiorina

National security is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curve. But secondly, the bureaucratic processes that have been in place since 9/11 are woefully inadequate as well.

Carly Fiorina

As president, the first thing I will do is secure the border. It will take money, manpower, and technology - but most of all, it will take political will.

Evan Williams

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.

Milton Glaser

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

Frank Herbert

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

Frank Herbert

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.