Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris O'Dowd

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

Chris Hughes

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

Chris Hughes

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

George W. Bush

...we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil...The best way to break this addiction is through technology

George W. Bush

We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal?

George W. Bush

I heard there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft.

George W. Bush

The North Korean regime remains one of the world's leading proliferator of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria. The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action.

George W. Bush

There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.

George Carlin

Everything beeps now.

Frank Gehry

Everything - design and technology and materials - has changed since the World Trade Center was built. A lot of it has to do with computers, which allow us to be far more efficient as well as structurally sound.

Fareed Zakaria

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

Eve Ensler

I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself.

Francis Chan

We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.

Francis Bacon

Innovations, which are the births of time.

Francesca Annis

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

Fisher Stevens

Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge.

Henry Mintzberg

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

Henry Mintzberg

So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we really communicating?

Henry Louis Gates

We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.

Henning Mankell

I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.

James Nesbitt

As fabulous as technology is, it can also make us very anxious.

There was just nothing to go on. We didn't have the technology.

David Shaw

This is how technology can make a difference.

Jaron Lanier

When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask you to accept in some corner of your brain that you might also be conceived of as a program.

Jaron Lanier

I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.

Jaron Lanier

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

Jaron Lanier

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

Jaron Lanier

The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

Jaron Lanier

People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.

Jaron Lanier

Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

Jaron Lanier

Digital technologies are setting down the new grooves of how people live, how we do business, how we do everything--and they're doing it according to the expectations of foolish utopian scenarios. We want free online experiences so badly that we are happy to not be paid for information that comes from us now or ever. That sensibility also implies that the more dominant information becomes in our economy, the less most of us will be worth.

Jaron Lanier

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

Jaron Lanier

There will always be humans, lots of them, who provide the data that makes the networked realization of any technology better and cheaper.