Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Petroski

Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.

Henry Petroski

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

Helen Mirren

What's great in the modern world is that it's becoming easier and easier for people to create without having access to large sums of money. They need access to certain technologies, but the cost is far less than it used to be.

Heather Donahue

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

Heather Donahue

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

Hideo Kojima

90% of what is considered "impossible" is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology.

Henry Jenkins

The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.

Henry Cuellar

At the current rate of 28 miles of SBInet [Secure Border Initiative network] technology every 4.5 years, it would take 320 years - or until the year 2330 - to deploy SBInet technology across the Southwest border. That statistic would be comical if the subject matter were not so serious.

Helen Clark

Innovation applied across the board of development is having a huge impact, and can have more. All sorts of technology can provide shortcuts, can overcome obstacles which once seemed insuperable.

Helen Clark

We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?

Joe Walsh

You can fix things with digital technology and there's a temptation to fix everything or make it perfect and what you're losing there is the human performance that may not be perfect but there may be magic in it. You can make it perfect but music doesn't sound good perfect for some reason.

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 Maeda

No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley

John Linder

Despite claims by some to the contrary, we have heard numerous times in hearings and briefings by experts that existing technologies do not fully or effectively detect nuclear material.

John Lindsay

Technology has to be accessible otherwise it enslaves us, and I'm not really in favour of that.

John Lindsay

I'm definitely more interested in technologies that are more accessible, that are as accessible as possible.

John Lindsay

Technology tends to fuel the imagination. People with a technological bent can get excited by sometimes the most hazardous technologies, if they think they can harness them safely.

John Lindsay

Obviously technologies that are sustainable are a logical first step to creating a just society, one that doesn't trample life in all its forms, whether it's other humans or other life forms on the earth, one that acknowledges that we're all sharing the space and that there needs to be room for every living thing somewhere.

John Legend

In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task.

Philip Pullman

The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing.

Rachel Dratch

I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world.

Queen Rania of Jordan

We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East.

Joseph Kosinski

The movies I make and my interests are always about pushing the technology as far as we can in support of telling great stories and showing an audience things they haven't seen before.

Koichi Tanaka

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

Koichi Tanaka

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

Kevin Kelly

Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented

Kevin Kelly

Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.

Kevin Kelly

Technology is anything that doesn't work yet.