Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stanislav Grof

Ritual use of psychedelic plants and substances has been a particularly effective technology for inducing holotropic states of consciousness.

Stanislaw Lem

I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.

Linus Torvalds

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

Linus Torvalds

To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.

Linus Torvalds

I'm a technical manager, but I don't have to take care of people. I only have to worry about technology itself.

Linus Torvalds

I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

Linus Torvalds

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems.

Lindsey Shaw

I just wanna give a big shout out to all the fans out there who have followed my work up until now. You guys are amazing!! Hearing from fans is the best feeling in the world.

Lindsey Graham

The Iranians have shared every weapon they've ever developed with terrorist organizations. I fear they would share nuclear technology with a terrorist organization that would one day come here.

Lindsey Graham

For 40 years, the American middle class has been disappearing. Millions of people are working longer hours for lower wages despite a huge increase in technology and productivity. And what we have seen during that period is a massive transfer of trillions of dollars from the middle class to the top one-tenth of 1 percent of America

Untethered technology gives us the freedom to do nearly anything, anytime, anywhere. It can also enslave us - we feel compelled to use it where ever it is. Technology is neutral. How, when and where we use it is up to us.

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Larry Niven

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

Larry Niven

Ethics change with technology.

Leon Wieseltier

Use the new technologies for the old purposes.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

Karl Popper

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

Karen Bass

Technology alone isn't enough. To really get the money shots, it's down to being in the right place at the right time.

Karen Bass

New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories.

Steven Spielberg

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

Steven Spielberg

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do.

Reggie Watts

Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

Tom Shadyac

The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development; its love - that one principle.

Tom Holt

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else

Tom Hodgkinson

We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.

Tom Hanks

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Tom Clancy

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Tod Machover

I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.

Tod Machover

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

Tod Machover

Over my career, I'd say the last 25 years; we've gone from music and computer being for 10 people in the world to having personal computers, to now being able to do amazing things on your iPhone, or with Rock Band. So, right now there's enormous capability with technology in our devices that everybody has access to.

Tod Machover

The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how its being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is.

Tim Jackson

If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.

Tim Ferriss

In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.