Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gabrielle Zevin

Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

Freeman Thomas

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

Freya Stark

Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.

Fred Wilson

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

Julie Kagawa

As cities grow and technology takes over the world, belief and imagination fade away, and so do we.

Joy Williams

A side benefit of the new and developing technologies is that soon we won't have to feel guilty about the suffering and denigration of the animals because we will have made them up.

Joseph Needham

Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

Julian Simon

We now have in our hands—really, in our libraries—the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven billion years.

Julian Simon

The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.

When you brought the Industrial Revolution in, all of a sudden India and China went from being the dominant global powers to being powers dominated by those who understood how to apply this new technology.

Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

Joshua Lederberg

So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us.

K. Eric Drexler

Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

Kage Baker

The 1910 Edison film of Frankenstein was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

Margot Robbie

Technology still freaks me out a bit.

Paul Theroux

I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.

Paul Kagame

There are things I admire, for example, about South Korea or Singapore. I admire their history, their development and how intensively they have invested in their people and in technology.

Paul Krugman

I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

Paul Davies

It's worth remembering that all technology leaves a footprint. For example, our own technology is leaving a footprint in terms of global warming, which could be detected from a long way away. One assumes that a very advanced civilization that has been around maybe millions and millions of years would have an even bigger footprint that might extend beyond its planet to its immediate astronomical environment.

Paul Davies

Technology is, in the broadest sense, mind or intelligence or purpose blending with nature.

Patrick Collison

One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.

Macklemore

Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

Hans Zimmer

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

Gordon Moore

With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.

Gordon Moore

Moore's Law - The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 24 months

John Collison

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

John Cleese

Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers. And they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers — which is why almost no technology ever works.

John Brunner

It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.

Luis von Ahn

The question that motivates my research is, if we can put a man on the Moon with 100,000 [people], what can we do with 100 million?

Luis von Ahn

Before the Internet, coordinating more than 100,000 people, let alone paying them, was essentially impossible. But now with the Internet, I've just shown you a project where we've gotten 750 million people to help us digitize human knowledge.

John Charles Polanyi

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

John Charles Polanyi

Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

John Aniston

If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.