Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Sorrell

If you ask what keeps me up at night, it's the pressure in the system forcing us to do all sorts of things. Content, data and technology are forcing us to think about business in a very different way.

Evgeny Morozov

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

Evgeny Morozov

The global triumph of American technology has been predicated on the implicit separation between the business interests of Silicon Valley and the political interests of Washington.

George W. Bush

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

Christiane Amanpour

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.

Jeff Zucker

Were in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

George Bernard Shaw

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

J. G. Ballard

It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to trivia like instant cameras and space spectaculars that should have stayed in the pages of Science Fiction . . . some of the last Presidents of the U.S.A. seemed to have been recruited straight from Disneyland.

Issey Miyake

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

Jaron Lanier

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

Chris Mooney

One of the reasons the United States has actually been reducing its emissions in recent years is actually that there's been a boom in natural gas. It's displacing coal. It emits less carbon dioxide when you burn it. This is not really an Obama policy. It's just something that happened because of technology and the free market.

Havelock Ellis

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Graham McTavish

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

Jeremy Rifkin

What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.

Ha-Joon Chang

As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e.g., tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e.g., textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s.

Derek Magyar

If I am looking at my work as an actor after having directed, I'm able to look at things in a much more technical way. There's no question about that.

One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

Zhang Ziyi

Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!

Wen Ho Lee

I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files

Mark Boal

I had no idea what it would be like to be a bomb tech in Baghdad until I got there so I didn't know what to expect. It was very eye-opening.

Marc Benioff

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

Jacque Fresco

When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings fail to include the possibility of this development in our overall, social evolution we will witness the decline of our species

Henry Rollins

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Henry Giroux

We need to educate young people to deal with new modes of education that are emerging with the new electronic technologies and we need to educate them to not only learn how to critically read this ubiquitous screen culture but also how to be cultural producers.

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?

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James Chanos

It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.

Norman Mailer

Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is the man who is not only a machine himself in the links of these networks, but is also a man sitting in (what Collins is later to call) a 'mini-cathedral.' a man somewhat more than a pilot, somewhat more than a superpilot, is in fact a veritable high priest of the forces of society and scientific history concentrated in that mini cathedral, a general of the church of the forces of technology.

Norman Lamm

To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment and devastation of the resources of nature, is a piece of atavistic nonsense.

Nouriel Roubini

Technology is spurring innovation, and the so-called "demographic dividend" has brought change.

Emilio Estevez

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

Eric Schmidt

I spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon,

Eric Schmidt

In general in technology, if you own a platform that's valuable, you can monetize it.