Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. D. Hayworth

New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed.

J. B. Priestley

Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.

Georges Pompidou

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Greg Walden

I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.

Greg Walden

In addition to hydropower, Oregon and the Northwest have pioneering companies leading the way in environmentally friendly energy technology.

Gregory Bateson

We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology.

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

Technology, of course, is not the only distraction.

There was just nothing to go on. We didn't have the technology.

David Shaw

This is how technology can make a difference.

The technology they are using now is just phenomenal.

The technology is out there. We just need to find the right type of car.

The technology is new, but it's not so new that it's not being commercialized.

The technology involved, the exploration possibilities, it's really exciting.

Janet Echelman

Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.

Jane Levy

I have very complex and complicated ideas about technology. It's such a prominent way that we communicate with each other. In ways, I think it's really positive, and in ways, I think it's really negative.

Ethan Zuckerman

The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies.

Ethan Zuckerman

[According to Twitter] 24 percent of American Twitter users are African-American. That's about twice as high as African-Americans are represented in the population.

Jason Hirschhorn

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.

Jason Epstein

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

Carly Fiorina

We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act.

Carly Fiorina

National security is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curve. But secondly, the bureaucratic processes that have been in place since 9/11 are woefully inadequate as well.

Carly Fiorina

As president, the first thing I will do is secure the border. It will take money, manpower, and technology - but most of all, it will take political will.

Evan Williams

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.

Milton Glaser

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

Milton Friedman

Even the most ardent environmentalist doesn't really want to stop pollution. If he thinks about it, and doesn't just talk about it, he wants to have the right amount of pollution. We can't really afford to eliminate it - not without abandoning all the benefits of technology that we not only enjoy but on which we depend.

Nathan Deal

As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

Nathan Deal

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

Nancy Kress

Technology is Darwinian. It spreads. It evolves. It adapts. The most dangerous wipes out the less fit.

Muriel Spark

No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.

Karen Walker

We grew up with social media. There was no iPhone when we started! I love technology; I love what it does to my life. What I really love about social media and the Internet is that it has shifted the power it has democratised everything.

Julian Baggini

The idea that the mind can extend even beyond the body is an intriguing one, and is bound to become more pressing as we increasingly develop technologies that augment our natural abilities.