Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Mainwaring

Not since the digital revolution in the early '90s has technology placed such a comprehensive burden on business, employees and individuals to reinvent their business plans, services and products, and themselves to keep pace with the changing marketplace.

Simon Mainwaring

Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world.

Richard Brautigan

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

Rem Koolhaas

The institutions are working better now, the banks are much more functional. At this time, 1997, there were no mobile phones! It's a whole different thing now with mobile phones: technology has created a form of regulation, because people can actually talk to each other a lot more.

Richard Branson

We've definitely cracked the technology. Now we're just trying to be able to produce the amount of fuels that we need to satisfy our own needs and then other people's needs.

Timothy Murphy

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

Timothy Murphy

The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.

Tim Holden

For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal.

Stephen Fry

Talent is inborn, but technique is learned.

St. Vincent

I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.

Ron Kind

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

Rupert Sheldrake

Machines are designed not to be random. When you call up a word processing program on your computer, you don't want it to be different every time you call it up. You want it to stay the same.

Rupert Murdoch

There is so much media now with the Internet and people, and so easy and so cheap to start a newspaper or start a magazine, there's just millions of voices and people want to be heard.

Rupert Murdoch

Advances in the technology of telecommunications have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarian regimes everywhere.

Thomas Mann

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

Ray Kurzweil

In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.

Ray Kurzweil

Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion.

Ray Kurzweil

There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

Ray Kurzweil

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

Ray Kurzweil

Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.

Ray Kurzweil

By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what we think of as machines today, but rather machines will have progressed to be like humans and beyond. Technology will be the metaphorical opposable thumb that enables our next step in evolution.

Rashida Jones

There's a sense of entitlement and isolationism that I think is really dangerous, and the way globalization and technology have been used isn't really for the best.

Rajneesh

The West has enough technology, enough science, enough affluence, enough money, but something of the inner is missing. There is no peace, no silence, no joy, no bliss, no meditativeness, no experience of godliness.

Robin Ince

They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.

Robin Cook

There is a connection waiting to be made between the decline in democratic participation and the explosion in new ways of communicating. We need not accept the paradox that gives us more ways than ever to speak, and leaves the public with a wider feeling than ever before that their voices are not being heard. The new technologies can strengthen our democracy, by giving us greater opportunities than ever before for better transparency and a more responsive relationship between government and electors

Robert Rodriguez

I like to keep my budgets at a certain price when I work for someone else, and even more so now that I'm working for myself, and use new technologies to deliver films that look like they have high production levels.

Robert Rodriguez

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

Robert Rodriguez

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

Robert Reich

The key to understanding the rise in inequality isn't technology or globalization. It's the power of the moneyed interests to shape the underlying rules of the market.

Robert Reich

Our moral authority is as important, if not more important, than our troop strength or our high-tech weapons. We are rapidly losing that moral authority, not only in the Arab world but all over the world.

Robert Redford

It's hard to pay attention these days because of multiple affects of the information technology nowadays. You tend to develop a faster, speedier mind, but I don't think it's necessarily broader or smarter.

Robert Redford

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.