Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Kelvin

Radio has no future." "X-rays are clearly a hoax". "The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.

Malcolm Gladwell

[Norden] said, with the Mark 15 Norden bombsight, he could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel at 20,000 feet.

Malcolm Gladwell

The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all.

Major Owens

I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

Major Owens

Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

Major Owens

Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.

Major Owens

We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

If a technology is beneficial, everyone should have it. If it is not, no one should have it.

Mahatma Gandhi

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

Gavin Bryars

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

Gabrielle Zevin

Hi there," squeaked a precocious little voice, "you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

Freeman Thomas

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

Freya Stark

Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.

Fred Wilson

The Internet is a computing platform built on top of core technology. Applied technology is what gets built on top of that: It's Web services.

Macklemore

Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

Joe Walsh

You can fix things with digital technology and there's a temptation to fix everything or make it perfect and what you're losing there is the human performance that may not be perfect but there may be magic in it. You can make it perfect but music doesn't sound good perfect for some reason.

Jimmy Carter

We've lost an edge that we used to have in scientific innovation applications to goods to be sold. In many ways, that is also changing in the electronic field. Almost all of the materials that we use now are of advanced technology, I have an iPad and also an iPod, both of which are made in China. Although we have designed them here with Apple, for instance, they are manufactured overseas.

Mahatma Gandhi

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

James Packer

I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.

Ellen Ochoa

We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.

Edward Teller

The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.

Edward Tufte

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

Edward Tufte

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.

Edward Dahlberg

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.

Edward de Bono

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.

Edward Boyden

For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology (drugs), electrical pulses, and so on. But none of these technologies are precise. With optogenetics, we can aim light at a single cell, or a set of cells, and turn just that set of cells on or off.

Eckhart Tolle

The tools of science and technology amplified the effects of the madness of the egoic mind. So the survival of the planet began to be threatened, and with it the survival of humanity.

Eckhart Tolle

Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree that humanity, and probably the planet, would not survive for another hundred years if human consciousness remains unchanged.

Eckhart Tolle

We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology.

Henry Spencer

MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.

Henry Selick

Anyone can buy CG technology. It's not that it's easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they're incredibly hard to make.

Henry Petroski

Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.

Heather Donahue

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.