Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kage Baker

The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

Margot Robbie

Technology still freaks me out a bit.

Paul Theroux

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.

Paul Kagame

There are things I admire, for example, about South Korea or Singapore. I admire their history, their development and how intensively they have invested in their people and in technology.

Paul Krugman

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

Paul Davies

It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global warming, which could be detected from a long way away. One assumes that a very advanced civilization that has been around maybe millions and millions of years would have an even bigger footprint that might extend beyond its planet to its immediate astronomical environment.

Paul Davies

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

Patrick Collison

One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

Macklemore

Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

Hans Zimmer

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

Gordon Moore

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

Gordon Moore

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

Gore Verbinski

Animation is a technique, not a genre.

John Collison

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

John Cleese

Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.

John Brunner

It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.

Luis von Ahn

The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?

Luis von Ahn

Before the Internet, coordinating more than 100,000 people, let alone paying them, was essentially impossible. But now with the Internet, I've just shown you a project where we've gotten 750 million people to help us digitize human knowledge.

John Charles Polanyi

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

John Charles Polanyi

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

John Aniston

If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.

John Arlott

The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.

Meg Whitman

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

Max Walker

It's been amazing to step out of a bottle of ink on to an iPad. There's no better time than right now to embrace this fabulous sandpit of technology. Because intuitively, at the touch of a finger, most of it is possible.

Max Born

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.

Max Born

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

Max Brooks

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

Mark Skousen

Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.

Marina Abramovic

Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.

Marina Abramovic

Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?

Edward Dahlberg

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.

Edward de Bono

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.

Edward Boyden

For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology (drugs), electrical pulses, and so on. But none of these technologies are precise. With optogenetics, we can aim light at a single cell, or a set of cells, and turn just that set of cells on or off.