Quotes about technology
technology thinking artist
In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists. Tim Burton
technology get-better updates
We're putting all of our energy into making it right. And we have already had several software updates. We've got a huge plan to make it even better. It will get better and better over time. We screwed up. That's the fact. Tim Cook
technology thinking people
People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done! Tim Berners-Lee
technology space able
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. Tim Berners-Lee
technology people innovation
Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products. Tim Berners-Lee
technology media issues
We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on. Tim Berners-Lee
technology world old-technology
You affect the world by what you browse. Tim Berners-Lee
technology past bigger
The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past. Tim Berners-Lee
technology thinking growth
It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993. Tim Berners-Lee
technology feet balance
We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets. Thomas Friedman
technology hands interesting
Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great. But on the other hand, when everybody has the ability to make magic, it's like there's no more magic - if the audience can just do it themselves, why are they going to bother? Thomas Bangalter
technology creating politics
In creating technology for ourselves we created it for the world. Thomas A. Edison
technology work-out alternatives
Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well. Thomas Keating
technology government play
Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around. Rebecca MacKinnon
technology government purpose
The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us. Rebecca MacKinnon
technology community way
I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community. Hal Sparks
technology phones needs
Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master. Gretchen Rubin
technology reality thinking
The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work. Herbie Mann
technology important nuclear
A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages. Herman Kahn
technology issues decision
Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision. Herman Kahn
technology games people
I'm one of the people who was a pioneer in encouraging musicians, early in the game, to get interested in technology, and now all the musicians are getting into it. Herbie Hancock
technology stuff levels
Technology has developed to a whole other level and theres the scientist part of me that loves that stuff. Herbie Hancock
technology tools use
Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
technology our-world long
In the future, will our technologies help stabilise or planet and population, leading to a very long lifetime for us? Or will we destroy our world and its inhabitants, after only a brief appearance on the cosmic stage? Jill Tarter
technology thinking done
I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance. Jerry Harrison
technology years two
Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young. Jennifer Egan
technology hands use
One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then, digital technology is leading, in my work at least, toward a greater reliance on handmaking because the assembly and montage of the various parts of the picture is done very carefully by hand. Jeff Wall
technology thinking media
I do think that in some ways, the complexity of technology, the things that we all have to deal with in media, have created a new kind of person that is sensitive to media, but also sensitive to the kind of beliefs that people have. And this person can put the two together. Jeff Goodby
technology rapids changed
The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology. Jeffrey Katzenberg
technology rooms internet
I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily. Jeffrey Eugenides
technology icons way
I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we. Jim Allchin
technology thinking people
I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them. Jim Balsillie
technology apples done
No other technology company other than Apple has successfully transitioned their platform. It's almost never done, and it's way harder than you realize. This transition is where tech companies go to die. Jim Balsillie