Famous Quotes & Sayings

T Bone Burnett

Technology changes nothing.

Ron Wyden

Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them.

Ron Fournier

Don't underestimate questions from the crowd; technology has made voters more informed than ever.

Samantha Power

India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.

Tom Peters

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

Tom Peters

TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.

Tom Robbins

The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush, while exploding worldwide population is allowing its effects to multiply geometrically.

Tom Robbins

In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs.

Tom Lantos

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to bypass government sensors and barriers to the Internet; but instead, they agreed to guard the gates themselves.

Todd Park

Technology and computers are very much at the core of our economy going forward. To be prepared for the demands of the 21st century-and to take advantage of its opportunities-it is essential that more of our students today learn basic computer programming skills, no matter what field of work they want to pursue.

Toni Cade Bambara

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

Steve Wozniak

You'd better have the technology knowledge. I really urge you not to think you can start a whole company and business with just ideas on paper, because you'll end up owning so few of those ideas.

Steve Wozniak

You should stay closely connected to the technology when you start your company.

Steve Wozniak

Rockets are bad technology. iPhones are good technology

Steve Wozniak

Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies.

Steve Wozniak

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

Stephen Covey

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Stephen Covey

Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.

Thomas Merton

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.

Tony Juniper

We are developing all sorts of technologies based on what we have learnt from birds, animals and soils. Pollination is worth £billions. But it also highlights how nature is so interconnected.

Tony Juniper

By downplaying clear targets and frameworks, ... the Prime Minister is ignoring calls from UK companies who want a clear framework to operate within now. There has been a lot of discussion about the false choice between targets and technologies, but the reality is that without both we cannot achieve either.

Tony Kushner

In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.

Tom Wolfe

There was a time in the 1930s when magazine writers could actually make a good living. 'The Saturday Evening Post' and 'Collier's' both had three stories in each issue. These were usually entertaining, and people really went for them. But then television came along, and now of course, information technology...the new way of killing time.

Steven Spielberg

Audience members are only concerned about the story, the concept, the bells and whistles and the noise that a popular film starts to make even before it's popular. So audiences will not be drawn to the technology; they'll be drawn to the story. And I hope it always remains that way.

Steve McConnell

Good code is its own best documentation.

Steve Buyer

As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.

Steve Ballmer

Accessible design is good design - it benefits people who don't have disabilities as well as people who do. Accessibility is all about removing barriers and providing the benefits of technology for everyone.

Steve Ballmer

The lifeblood of our business is that R&D spend. There's nothing that flows through a pipe or down a wire or anything else. We have to continuously create new innovation that lets people do something they didn't think they could do the day before.

Steve Ballmer

There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.

Steve Ballmer

There is such an overvaluation of technology stocks that it is absurd. I would include our stock in that category. It is bad for the long-term worth of the economy.

Steve Ballmer

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

Stephen Hawking

One could imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.

Stanley Clarke

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?