Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julian Assange

We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage.

Keith Richards

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

Kenzo Tange

I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence, the relationship between which has a decisive effect on contemporary cultural forms and social structure.

Ivan Illich

The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

I. King Jordan

Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.

Gloria Naylor

In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make up more than two-thirds of the world, the two-thirds that will not be going online to "save" time but will remain wedded to the knowledge that if the bus doesn't come that day, it will come someday. After all, there is nothing but time.

Ivan Chermayeff

There is no "era" of simple, focused, concept-driven identity design. There is only design that grows out of understanding audiences for specific problems, and that evolves from an idea. This is an approach that does not depend on any specific time period or its technology.

Grace Hopper

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

Grace Hopper

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

Martin Filler

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.

Martin Heidegger

So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.

Martin Heidegger

The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already affected man in his essence. The rule of Enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter into a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth

Martin Heidegger

The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

Martin Heidegger

The question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of truth, comes to pass

Martin Heidegger

Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it. But we are delivered over to it in the worst possible way when we regard it as something neutral; for this conception of it, to which today we particularly like to do homage, makes us utterly blind to the essence of technology.

Mark McKinnon

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.

Noam Chomsky

Contemporary technology could be used to eliminate ownership and management of corporations. It could be used to provide - lets say Apple computers. In principle information technology could be used to provide direct information to the work force on the ground so that they could democratically decide what the company would do, eliminating the role of management. It could be used for that. People aren't developing technology for that purpose.

Noam Chomsky

Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument.

Noam Chomsky

[Internet] is kind of like a hammer. The technology itself doesn't determine how its used. It depends on the social, cultural and economic context in which the technology is made available.

Niklas Zennstrom

The telephone is a 100-year-old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

Nick Rhodes

I'm fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at science and technology because I think that the developments in my lifetime have been so remarkable - and we're only at the tip of the iceberg with projects like decoding the human genome.

Matt Drudge

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

Nicholas Stern

Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks.

Nicholas Negroponte

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

Neal Asher

If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

Natasha Bedingfield

The music technology scene is changing so fast its hard to keep up.

Muddy Waters

China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.

Mitchell Baker

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

Frank Herbert

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

Frank Herbert

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

George H. W. Bush

By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.

George H. W. Bush

I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit and enterprise against anyone.

Ha-Joon Chang

As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e.g., tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e.g., textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s.