Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Rheingold

A lot of people use collaborative technologies badly, then abandon them. They aren't 'plug-and-play.' The invisible part is the social skill necessary to use them.

Howard Rheingold

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology,

Howard Rheingold

Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.

Howard Rheingold

Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.

Howard Schultz

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

Howard Schultz

More than anything else, technology will pave the way for innovative change at Starbucks. The bulk of Starbucks' innovation over the next several years will be technology-focused.

Isaac Asimov

A chipped pebble is almost part of the hand it never leaves. A thrown spear declares a sort of independence the moment it is released... The whole trend in technology has been to devise machines that are less and less under direct control and more and more seem to have the beginning of a will of their own.

Elon Musk

It is definitely true that the fundamental enabling technology for electric cars is lithium-ion as a cell chemistry technology. In the absence of that, I don't think it's possible to make an electric car that is competitive with a gasoline car.

Ellen Barkin

There have been advances in the technology of beauty that I think are great. & you know what? Use it.

Elle Fanning

There is also an awakening to beauty, because when you're really young you don't have that concept or opinion in place, so you make your own discoveries. It's different now with technology, and the constant bombardment of images.

Ian MacKaye

I obviously use computers. My car is wondrous. My phone is amazing. I've already talked about the music I'm digitizing. Technology is fantastic, of course.

Hugh Hopper

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

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.

Gina McCarthy

Any first-generation technology will. But we are looking at carbon the same way we look at every pollutant under the Clean Air Act; we look for the new technologies that are available. We recognize that these power plants are going to be around for decades.

Gina McCarthy

When discussing overall impacts on employment, it is important not to overlook the new technologies and industries that can be driven by pollution control standards.

Gina McCarthy

If coal wants a place in a carbon-constrained future, they have to look at technology like this. And we think that our rule can help stimulate technology, growth, and innovation, bring those costs down, and allow coal a more stable opportunity to continue to be invested in.

Harold Ramis

The comic edge of Ghostbusters will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility. In the world of ghostbusting, there are certain givens. You're always going to have some new invented technology, some pseudo-science that sounds right because we drop enough familiar terms from physics and engineering, and pseudo-methodology, something that people will think they may have read something about before.

James Daly

I think up until that time a lot of focus on Internet coverage was either sort of the bits and bytes aspect of it, sort of the high-tech aspect of it, and the sociological aspect of it, which is how it was transforming culture.

Jam Master Jay

The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

Jakob Nielsen

At most project meetings, everyone has a seat at the table except the poor victims who will have to operate the technology.

Jakob Nielsen

Clear content, simple navigation and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.

Jamais Cascio

The difference between e-mail and regular mail is that computers handle e-mail, and computers never decide to come to work one day and shoot all the other computers.

Jamais Cascio

Blended-reality technology could play in a limited, walled-garden world, but history suggests that it won't really take off until it offers broad freedom of use.

Jackie Chan

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Jeremy Stoppelman

About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology, some sort of existential crisis. You just have to be vigilant about looking out for those moments.

Jennifer Stone

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

Jennifer Stone

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

Jennifer Granholm

There's more technology in your car than there is in your computer. It's got thousands of parts in it. It's extremely sophisticated, all that robotics.

Jeff Cohen

The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity.

Jeff Bezos

The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.