Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Rheingold

We like technology because we don't have to talk to anybody.

Muhammad Yunus

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

We have a lot of little things to work on - technique - but when you are tired, you tend to be that way.

We have to make better use of technology.

Agatha Christie

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

Bob Iger

We are in technology to essentially do three things.

Yoko Ono

New technology is something he always embraced, and this is something he would have loved.

Peter Jackson

Once upon a time, sound was new technology.

We just didn't have the technology. It's a very unfortunate situation.

Marlee Matlin

YouTube is akin to having my own network.

E. F. Schumacher

I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.

E. F. Schumacher

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

Nasdaq was never just a technology marketplace. It has always had some diversification.

Anne M. Mulcahy

Customers require the effective integration of technologies to simplify their workflow and boost efficiency.

Annabelle Selldorf

I'm not so interested in technology for technology's sake. I don't need incredibly sophisticated climate-control systems. And I'm absolutely amazed at the time people spend exchanging messages; I don't have a lot of time left over for those things.

Clay Shirky

The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the all-absorbing Yin to the mass media's all-producing Yang....In the age of the internet, no one is a passive consumer anymore because everyone is a media outlet.

Clay Shirky

What I think is coming instead are much more organic ways of organizing information than our current categorization schemes allow, based on two units - the link, which can point to anything, and the tag, which is a way of attaching labels to links. The strategy of tagging - free-form labeling, without regard to categorical constraints - seems like a recipe for disaster, but as the Web has shown us, you can extract a surprising amount of value from big messy data sets.

Clay Shirky

Curiously, once technology gets boring, the social effects get interesting.

Clay Shirky

Time Warner has called and they want us all back on the couch, just consuming - not producing, not sharing - and we should say, 'No.'

Clayton Christensen

In most instances, biotechnology, though a radically different approach, is a sustaining technology: It's a dramatically improved way of targeting problems that we hadn't been able to solve with the conventional approach of mainstream pharmaceutical companies.

Clayton Christensen

Because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in new technologies that would provide their customers more and better products of the sort they wanted, and because they carefully studied market trends and systematically allocated investment capital to innovations that promised the best returns, they lost their positions of leadership.

Clayton Christensen

Regulatory fiat cannot create a market at a technologically interdependent interface. And by the same token, regulation and so-called monopoly power rarely prevail at modular interfaces between stages of value-added technology.

Clayton Christensen

If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will have been toppled and new companies will be on top.

Clayton Christensen

When a technology, regardless of how different and difficult it is, sustains the trajectory of performance improvement, my research asserts that the leaders in the prior generation of technology are likely to end up on top of their industry at the end of the transition.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The Republic of Technology where we will be living is a feedback world.

Clare Short

For the first time ever we are capable of removing abject poverty, illiteracy and the diseases of poverty from the human condition. The current intensification of global economic integration has demonstrated that there is enough knowledge, technology and capital to bring development to all the people of the world.

Daniel Dennett

Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to do hasn't kept pace.

Alex Winter

I have been interested in global web-based communities and emerging technologies since the mid 80's. There is a revolution occurring in global culture nowadays, that will change everything. and it's only just beginning.

E. O. Wilson

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

E. O. Wilson

We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

E. O. Wilson

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

E. M. Forster

Ideas are fatal to caste.

Douglas Trumbull

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.