Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Druyan

We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.

Ann Druyan

I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.

We had anticipated this technology coming, so we didn't do a lot of hiring.

Daniel Suarez

I've read one too many thrillers that had really horrible technology in them.

Adrian Grenier

As great as technology is, it still has it's limitations, because it's only a frame of the truth

Adam Smith

The robot is going to lose. Not by much. But when the final score is tallied, flesh and blood is going to beat the damn monster.

Adam Leipzig

You can shoot and edit a movie from your iPhone and upload it to YouTube. Of course, what's not universal is talent. Are you making anything that anyone really should see?

Abraham Maslow

Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

We want to be on the edge of technology all of the time. We think long-term.

Alex Steffen

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

Alberto Manguel

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

Albert Einstein

It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.

Albert Einstein

Our technology has surpassed our humanity

Alex Comfort

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.

Aldous Huxley

Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.

Aldous Huxley

Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas.

Aldous Huxley

Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology.

Aaron Levie

In a user lead model, users are bringing in their own technology... and you can build software then, around the user.

Aaron Levie

They can bring the technology in, then you can sell to the enterprise when they want to have better control, better security... you still have the same biz model as a traditional enterprise sw company, but the way to get into the company is through the end user.

Aaron Levie

Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.

Aaron Koblin

Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

Aaron Neville

It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

Aaron Levie

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.

Aaron Levie

Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.

Aaron Levie

All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.

Aaron Levie

Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.

Aaron Levie

Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ...or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.

Aaron Levie

The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.

Aaron Levie

The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

Vint Cerf

You don't have to be young to learn about technology. You have to feel young.

Yoko Ono

New technology is something he always embraced, and this is something he would have loved.

Jamie Zawinski

On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.