Quotes about tech
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. Margaret Mead
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
tech until
I had no idea what it would be like to be a bomb tech in Baghdad until I got there so I didn't know what to expect. It was very eye-opening. Mark Boal
technology failing cases
It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail. Neal Stephenson
technology assumption breathtaking
Science and medicine and technology have all produced the breathtaking advances with which they have gifted the human race, only because they have been willing to do what religion has consistently, staunchly, and stubbornly refused to do: question the prior assumption. Neale Donald Walsch
technology enough-time computer
You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.
technology thinking people
A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it's going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that's available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel. So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different. Miles Davis
technology australia praise
If you're in Australia and you're into technology, Yow! is a no-brainer, but I am going to sing their praises anyway. I've never been so humbled to meet another speaker, or so honored to be in the presence of an conference organizer, as I have been with Yow! It's not just impressive. It's a reason to go to Australia. Mike Lee
technology interesting doe
Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology. Miguel de Icaza
technology cds way
These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms Mick Taylor
technology constant industry
The only constant in the technology industry is change. Marc Benioff
technology talking knowing
Knowing that a great bit of the technology is active and actually happening, and that the technology that we're talking about, in terms of uploading a human consciousness, is probably not all that far away, to be honest. Indeed, it will happen. It's pretty close. Johnny Depp
technology worry might
If privacy had a gravestone it might read: 'Don't Worry. This Was for Your Own Good. John Twelve Hawks
technology nuclear use
Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal. John Sununu
technology years worry
It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology. John Sununu
technology toil invention
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being. John Stuart Mill
technology class giving
If the technocratic class often invokes technology, it is because these inanimate objects can take on a trajectory of their own and so cover for the manager's inability to give leadership. John Ralston Saul
technology use care
Wouldn't it be great if the technology we used to take care of ourselves was as good as the technology we use to make money? James Heywood
technology evolution celestine-prophecy
History is not just the evolution of technology; it is the evolution of thought. James Redfield
technology assessment oil
According to the Office of Technology Assessment, 3 Minuteman missiles and 7 Poseidon missiles could destroy 73 percent of oil-refining capacity in the Soviet Union. James Fallows
technology people earth
The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology's potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving. Friedrich Durrenmatt
technology order car
We are not cave dwellers anymore, we live in the age of technology. When someone needs a car, he does not need to build it. He can buy it. When someone needs a murder, he himself does not need to kill. He can order it. Friedrich Durrenmatt
technology rooms technique
Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision between spontaneous activities and technique is catastrophic for the spontaneous activities. Jacques Ellul
technology use world
What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in the use of a natural force but in the application of technique to all spheres of life. Jacques Ellul
technology order civilization
The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in order to make use of technical instruments, no longer needs to know about his civilization. Jacques Ellul
technique individual servant
The individual who is the servant of technique must be completely unconscious of himself. Jacques Ellul
technology order civilization
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Jacques Ellul
technology play world
Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments, and to integrate the individual into a technological world. Jacques Ellul