Quotes about tech
technology magic threshold
It's not that any sufficiently advanced technology is magic, it's that any technology taking place beyond the threshold of our senses is. Nick Harkaway
technology problem solve
There are some problems that technology can't solve. Nick Bostrom
technology skills views
BOLD Immersion was about exposing students to a talented and diverse community, learning about the technology industry from a non-technical point of view, and growing my skills. Moses
technology thinking forever
Some folks think life and technology and mind can keep expanding forever. Others say it can't. We are still not clear on that. Seth Lloyd
technology numbers people
I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet. Sebastian Thrun
technology years people
We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.
technology government innovation
To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality. Sebastian Pinera
technology hands competition
The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge. Seth Godin
technology creating media
You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.
technology people figures
Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
technology tape standards
Many companies at the 2013 NAB show were showing LTO tape archiving technology. The LTO Consortium had a popular exhibit at the 2013 NAB promoting the new LTO 6 tape standard. Tom Coughlin
technology thinking benefits
I think if technology is used in a way that is not responsible, that is a bad thing. I think technology and where it is going inevitable, and there's great benefits that can help an individual in society at large. Tom Cruise
technology hatred sadism
Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere. Simon Wiesenthal
technology hatred threatening
The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.
technology magic tools
Magic, like technology, is a tool. Mercedes Lackey
technology lakes people
Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy. Michael Scott
technology men thinking
To those who think that all this sounds like science fiction, we point out that yesterday's science fiction is today's fact. The Industrial Revolution has radically altered man's environment and way of life, and it is only to be expected that as technology is increasingly applied to the human body and mind, man himself will be altered as radically as his environment and way of life have been. Theodore Kaczynski
technology people vision
I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.
technology men gestures
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. Theodor Adorno
technology dancer matter
I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had. Terry Riley
technology magic done
It's still magic even if you know how it's done. Terry Pratchett
technology temptation mastery
No society has ever yet been able to handle the temptations of technology to mastery, to waste, to exuberance, to exploration and exploitation. We have to learn to cherish this earth and cherish it as something that's fragile, that's only one, it's all we have. We have to use our scientific knowledge to correct the dangers that have come from science and technology. Margaret Mead
technology discovery people
Sometimes, instead of helping people to advance, a discovery or an invention holds them back.
technology tools stories
The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story. Marco Tempest
technology years law
In 1975, Congress passed a law requiring fuel efficiency standards to double over 10 years, with incremental targets that auto manufacturers were required to meet. That was the responsible approach, and it worked. But since 1985, we've done nothing - even as technology has moved at light speed. Michael Bloomberg
technology government engineering
The other dynamic keeping the stock market up - both for technology stocks and others - is that companies are using a lot of their income for stock buybacks and to pay out higher dividends, not make new investment,. So to the extent that companies use financial engineering rather than industrial engineering to increase the price of their stock you're going to have a bubble. But it's not considered a bubble, because the government is behind it, and it hasn't burst yet.
technology technological-change entertainment
We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new. Michael Eisner
technology giving creative
The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.
technology government thank-god
It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God. Ray Bradbury
technology world acres
If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology. Ramez Naam
technology pie environmental
New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.
technology environment pity
Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity.
technology years apples
You have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits. When you look at the companies that have really won customers over in technology - say, Apple and Google - you find that they spend billions of dollars on R&D each year, often spending that much on a product before they ever make a dime back in profits.