Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

Sam Ewing

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.

Russell Simmons

Sometimes, a new toy, a new technology, will focus you. The world is always trying to draw you out, so you always have to remember to go in.

Sally Jewell

If it's in people's interest to invest in renewables and invest in clean technologies, I'm convinced it will happen.

Rosa DeLauro

The State Energy Program, it provides grants to States and directs funding to State energy offices. The States use these grants to address their energy priorities, program funding to adopt emerging renewable energy and energy-efficient technologies.

Ron Pearson

I have gotten everything from a one-page letter written in pencil to a 50-page computer generated masterpiece.

Susan Orlean

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

Susan Blackmore

'Temes' [technology-enhanced memes] don't care about us - they simply want to create more of themselves. Don't think we created the internet for our own benefit - think about temes spreading for themselves because they must.

Thomas A. Edison

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.

Thomas A. Edison

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

Thomas A. Edison

The dove is my emblem.

Sidney Altman

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

Shigeru Miyamoto

You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value.

Shigeru Miyamoto

We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.

Neil Patrick Harris

I love technology. I buy all of the stuff when they come out first.

Natalie Portman

The good news is we have the technology and the tools to alleviate poverty on a global scale. All that is standing in our way is education and will.

Tony Robbins

Where the world is going and what technology is leading us to in terms of the evolution of humanity is an incredibly valuable thing to understand.

Tony Abbott

All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.

Tony Blair

In this day and age if you've got the technology then it's vital to use that technology to track people down. The number on the database should be the maximum number you can get.

Tony Blair

We need to develop the new green industrial revolution that develops the new technologies that can confront and overcome the challenge of climate change; and that above all can show us not that we can avoid changing our behaviour but we can change it in a way that is environmentally sustainable

Tony Blair

Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.'

Tom Ridge

Very interested in any technology that can help create a safer and more secure America.

Simon Sinek

TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.

Simon Mainwaring

As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.

Simon Mainwaring

Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.

Simon Mainwaring

Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.

Simon Mainwaring

Find the human in the technology. The currency marketers trade in has not changed even if the methods have. Emotion is what we exchange.