Famous Quotes & Sayings

Godfrey Reggio

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

Godfrey Reggio

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

Godfrey Reggio

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

Godfrey Reggio

Technology is not neutral.

Godfrey Reggio

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

Gijs de Vries

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

Gregory Benford

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

Gregory Benford

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

Honor Harger

Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible.

Homaro Cantu

Gastronomy has to catch up to the evolution in technology.

Homaro Cantu

If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with.

Ian Stewart

To criticize mathematics for its abstraction is to miss the point entirely. Abstraction is what makes mathematics work. If you concentrate too closely on too limited an application of a mathematical idea, you rob the mathematician of his most important tools: analogy, generality, and simplicity. Mathematics is the ultimate in technology transfer.

Ian Rankin

I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.

Ian Mckellen

That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.

Ian Somerhalder

What I've started to realize is that social media is not just technology - it's become its own entity, full of energy waves. These energy waves could be a Tweet about something you are furious about, like the Keystone Pipeline, or a piece of legislation. Instantly, energy surrounds and adds traction, influence, making it come alive

Ian Bremmer

NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money to stimulate innovation in space technology.

Ian Bremmer

Everything today is "transient." Technology and its ability to empower actors large and small evolve so quickly that we have to get used to living in a world that exists in a more or less constant state of flux.

Iain Banks

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state

Hugh Sidey

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

Hugh Grant

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

Howard Zinn

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

Hortense Calisher

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

George Bernard Shaw

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

Freeman Dyson

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

Freeman Dyson

Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich.

Freeman Dyson

Technology without morality is barbarous; morality without technology is impotent.

Freeman Dyson

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.

Freeman Dyson

The technologies that raise the fewest ethical problems are those that work on a human scale, brightening the lives of individual people.

Freeman Dyson

Many of the technologies that are now racing ahead most rapidly, replacing human workers in factories and offices with machines, making stockholders richer and workers poorer, are indeed tending to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.

Freeman Dyson

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.

Freeman Dyson

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

Fred Astaire

Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.

Fred Brooks

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.