Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Born

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.

Max Brooks

Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.

Mark Skousen

Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.

Marina Abramovic

Today, our attention is less than the television advertisement. We're looking at six or seven problems constantly. We're living in the disturbed societies of cities. I think modern technology is one of the worst things human beings have invented.

Marina Abramovic

Because of technology, we don't develop telepathy. We don't use telepathy, but use, you know, the mobile phones. Why?

Patricia Cornwell

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

Philip Zimbardo

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

Paul Zane Pilzer

Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.

Martin Parr

Nobody thinks about technical issues anymore because cameras or camera phones take care of that automatically. On the other hand, you still have the option of controlling every technical aspect. It's the most accessible, democratic medium available in the world.

Martin Rees

All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.

Martin Rees

In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror.

Martin Rees

In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial intelligence, perhaps even implants into our brains - may change human beings themselves.

Martin Rees

The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work.

Lech Walesa

If once again Germany destabilizes Europe, then Germany will be not be divided again, but wiped off the map. East and West have the necessary technology in order to enforce this verdict. If Germany begins again, there is no other solution.

Lech Walesa

Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.

Peter Diamandis

Technology is a resource liberating force!

Peter Diamandis

Today, a group of 20 individuals empowered by the exponential growing technologies of AI and robotics and computers and networks and eventually nanotechnology can do what only nation states could have done before.

Peter Drucker

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

Peter Drucker

Technology is not about tools, it deals with how Man works.

Peter Drucker

Now that knowledge is taking the place of capital as the driving force in organizations worldwide, it is all too easy to confuse data with knowledge and information technology with information.

Peter Drucker

For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit.

Peter Drucker

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

Peter Drucker

Innovation requires us to systematically identify changes that have already occurred in a business - in demographics, in values, in technology or science - and then to look at them as opportunities. It also requires something that is most difficult for existing companies to do: to abandon rather than defend yesterday.

Peter Drucker

In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.

Penny Marshall

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

Penn Jillette

For the most part, any serious magic show is not using very much technology newer than theatrical lights.

Marlo Thomas

Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.

Marissa Mayer

Straight lines don't exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is that all the lines and forms have at least a slight curve.

Marissa Mayer

Talent is what drives technology companies,

Marissa Mayer

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.

Marissa Mayer

Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.

Marissa Mayer

Really in technology, it's about the people, getting the best people, retaining them, nurturing a creative environment and helping to find a way to innovate.

MC Hammer

Technology is important because it creates the future. We're able to be a part of the "next" and create things that don't exist.