Quotes about tech
technology hygiene police
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. Bruce Schneier
technology security-systems taught-us
History has taught us: never underestimate the amount of money, time, and effort someone will expend to thwart a security system. It's always better to assume the worst. Assume your adversaries are better than they are. Assume science and technology will soon be able to do things they cannot yet. Give yourself a margin for error. Give yourself more security than you need today. When the unexpected happens, you'll be glad you did. Bruce Schneier
technology thinking problem
If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology. Bruce Schneier
technological-development clouds silver
It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud. Bruce Sterling
technology thinking years
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet. Bruce Sterling
technology essence computer
Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. Brian Kernighan
technology actors sophisticated
As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor Brendan Fraser
technology helping achieve
Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it. Jane Chen
technology years people
If you look at the banking business over many years, it's always been a huge user of technology. This has been going on my whole life, that people have been adding technology, digitizing services. Jamie Dimon
technology men ideas
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas. Charles Fillmore
technology people entrepreneur
The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs. Ben Bernanke
technology government numbers
Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services. Ben Bernanke
technology government wish
The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost. Ben Bernanke
technology use purpose
For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use. Barbara Tuchman
technology thinking seductive
Technology is very seductive, and it is certainly changing the way things are designed and made and taught. The problem is when technology has seduced you away from thinking about things as deeply as you should. Arthur Ganson
technology artist civilization
Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. Arthur Erickson
technology listening doe
The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does not surprise or disappoint me in the least. Our technology must still be laughably primitive, we may be like jungle savages listening for the throbbing of tom-toms while the ether around them carries more words per second than they could utter in a lifetime Arthur C. Clarke
technology magic advanced-technology
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. Arthur C. Clarke
technology magic theatre
Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic. Arthur C. Clarke
technology differences machines
The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled labour. Arthur C. Clarke
technology long term
We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term. Arthur C. Clarke
technology practice matter
Anything that is theoretically possible will be achieved in practice, no matter what the technical difficulties are, if it is desired greatly enough. Arthur C. Clarke
technology years america
Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It's time to strike out anew....Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years....The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won't be humans anymore. I've seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology....The next step is in space. It's inevitable. Arthur C. Clarke
technology two perfect
One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll beproving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven. Anton Chekhov
technique stage thousand
I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen. Bela Lugosi
technology land green
To achieve a Green Revolution, African farmers, must have access to land and security of tenure. They also need access to markets, technology and improved infrastructure. Ban Ki-moon
technology building natural
Humanizing technology is about taking what's already natural about the human-tech experience and building technology seamlessly in tandem with it. Ariel Garten
technology media interesting
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technology wizards wells
Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business. Diane Duane
technology hurricanes reminders
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable. Diane Ackerman
technology worry grace
I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders. Diane Ackerman
technology thinking wind
As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing. Daniel H. Wilson
technology years body
We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history. Daniel H. Wilson