Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas A. Edison

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Thomas A. Edison

Failure is the most effective technique to optimize strategic planning, implementation and processes.

Thomas A. Edison

The dove is my emblem.

Sidney Altman

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Shigeru Miyamoto

You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.

Shigeru Miyamoto

We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.

Neil Patrick Harris

I love technology. I buy all of the stuff when they come out first.

Natalie Portman

The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.

Tony Robbins

Where the world is going and what technology is leading us to in terms of the evolution of humanity is an incredibly valuable thing to understand.

Tony Abbott

All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.

Tony Blair

In this day and age if you've got the technology then it's vital to use that technology to track people down. The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get.

Tony Blair

We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and that above all can show us not that we can avoid changing our behaviour but we can change it in a way that is environmentally sustainable

Tony Blair

Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'

Tom Ridge

Very interested in any technology that can help create a safer and more secure America.

Simon Sinek

TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.

When you brought the Industrial Revolution in, all of a sudden India and China went from being the dominant global powers to being powers dominated by those who understood how to apply this new technology.

Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

Joshua Lederberg

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

K. Eric Drexler

Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

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.

Paola Antonelli

Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

Paola Antonelli

We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.

Paola Antonelli

Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.

Hod Lipson

Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things.

Henry Selick

Anyone can buy CG technology. It's not that it's easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they're incredibly hard to make.