Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esther Dyson

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

Esther Dyson

People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.

Ezra Klein

We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.

Graham McTavish

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

Godfrey Reggio

What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not the effect of [technology], it is that everything exists with-in [its milieu]. It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

Godfrey Reggio

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

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.

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.

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.