Famous Quotes & Sayings

Freeman Dyson

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

Freeman Dyson

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.

Freeman Dyson

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

Fred Astaire

Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.

Fred Brooks

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

Tech and telecom are undergoing a substantial re-evaluation in the marketplace.

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.

The technology they are using now is just phenomenal.

The technology is out there. We just need to find the right type of car.

The technology is new, but it's not so new that it's not being commercialized.

The technology involved, the exploration possibilities, it's really exciting.

Scott Stewart

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

This technique was used in all three of the attacks.

The scholarships don't necessarily have to be used at a university. If someone wanted to go to a technical school, or even something like hairdressing school, they could use it for that, too.

You had to be in tech to win in this period.

The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.

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,

If you go back to the '50s and '60s... there was zero tech in S.F. It was all in the Valley... and it crept northward in early 2000s.

If your technology toolkit is in demand, you are going to do well.

Carly Fiorina

Silicon Valley companies need to be asked to bring the best and brightest, the most recent technology to the table. I was asked as a CEO. I complied happily. And they will as well. But they have not been asked. That's why it cost billions of dollars to build an [Barack] Obama website that failed because the private sector wasn't asked.

Carly Fiorina

There is some confusion because we only recently began our marketing. We're in an era were people need to think about business processes and applications horizontally...We need to think of the enterprise not as an island of stand-alone technology.

Buzz Aldrin

Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening technologies - sometimes called mutually assured destruction. It was also the America's response to the apparent superiority of the Russians in putting objects into space before USA could.

Buzz Aldrin

The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.

James Dyson

We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.

James Dyson

If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.

James Dyson

The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.

James Dyson

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

James Dyson

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

James Dyson

Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.

James Dyson

After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology