Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles R. Jackson

We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

Diane Sawyer

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Dennis Ritchie

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Dennis Gabor

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Denis Hayes

America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.

Denis Hayes

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

Dean Wareham

It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

Dean Kamen

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

Dean Kamen

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Dean Kamen

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

Dean Kamen

Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.

Dean Kamen

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention

Edsger Dijkstra

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

Edsger Dijkstra

When I came back from Munich, it was September, and I was Professor of Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Later I learned that I had been the Department's third choice, after two numerical analysts had turned the invitation down; the decision to invite me had not been an easy one, on the one hand because I had not really studied mathematics, and on the other hand because of my sandals, my beard and my "arrogance" (whatever that may be).

Edsger Dijkstra

Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.

Barton Seaver

We have eco-friendly shrimp. We can make them; we have that technology. But we can never have an eco-friendly all-you-can-eat shrimp buffet. It doesn't work.

Eddie Vedder

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

Deepak Chopra

I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.

David Bowie

The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

Abdus Salam

The Chernobyl technology is different from the technology which is used in the west, mainly.

Abdul Kalam

As a young citizen of India, armed with technology and love for my nation, I realize, a small aim is a crime.

Abdul Kalam

The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

Abdul Kalam

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

Yoko Ono

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

Daniel Suarez

I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.

George Lois

What Apple did for technology is brilliant, but they didn't do nothin' for our economy.

Vint Cerf

You don't have to be young to learn about technology. You have to feel young.

Iris Apfel

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

Carly Fiorina

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

We had anticipated this technology coming, so we didn't do a lot of hiring.

Dick Cheney

It used to be you needed to have a very large sophisticated state before you could even have a nuclear weapon... Now the technology is widespread enough. It doesn't take very many people to be able to cobble together a devastating attack, and all it takes is one.

Dax Shepard

I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.

Peter Jackson

Once upon a time, sound was new technology.