Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.

Bill Gates

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Bill Gates

A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer.

Bill Gates

Microsoft has had its success by doing low-cost products and constantly improving those products and we've really redefined the IT industry to be something that's about a tool for individuals.

Ai Weiwei

The IT people who have made such an effort to know and understand computer technology. They are frustrated that you cannot use Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in China. They are the first to recognize that the situation is terrible.

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

Bill Nighy

I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true." I like those kinds of backgrounds.

Bill Nye

The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation. I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.

Bernard Ebbers

I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.

Bernard Ebbers

I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

Bernard Ebbers

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

Carlos Ghosn

We don't know where the markets are going....we have to observe what's going down, see the trends, look at every vibration on the market, prepare the technology and jump when consumers start to think one way or the other

Carl Honore

Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.

Carl Jung

Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands.

The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.

Jerry Yang

Not only does Yahoo! have a unique franchise, it increasingly has industry-leading tools, technology and, most importantly, people.

Donald Sadoway

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

Donald Sadoway

The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

Dwayne Johnson

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

Colleen Jones

Technology creates the context for persuasion, but content persuades. Technology helps get content to the right people at the right time. The content still has to influence. Delivering the wrong content at the right time is as bad as delivering the right content at the wrong time.

Dalai Lama

If we human beings rely only on material development, we can’t be sure of a positive outcome. Employing technology motivated by anger and hatred is likely to be destructive. It will only be beneficial if we seek the welfare of all beings. Human beings are the only species with the potential to destroy the world. Because of the risks of unrestrained desire and greed we need to cultivate contentment and simplicity.

If your technology toolkit is in demand, you are going to do well.

J. J. Abrams

Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box is all of us. Ubiquitous technologies. What comes next ? Mystery as catalyst for imagination.

J. J. Abrams

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

J. G. Ballard

It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.

J. G. Ballard

Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse.

J. G. Ballard

We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind -- mass merchandising, advertising, politics conducted as a branch of advertising, the instant translation of science and technology into popular imagery . . .

Iveta Radicova

We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of education because of innovation and technology. And we need administrative reform. Too much bureaucracy.

Issey Miyake

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

Issey Miyake

I have always been interested in conducting research that yielded new methods by which to make cloth, and in developing new materials that combine craftsmanship and new technology. But the most important thing for me is to show that, ultimately, technology is not the most important tool; it is our brains, our thoughts, our hands, our bodies, which express the most essential things.

Iqbal Quadir

A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.

Jack Ma

I know nothing about technology.