Famous Quotes & Sayings

Howard Rheingold

We like technology because we don't have to talk to anybody.

Danah Boyd

There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology,

David Cameron

You can be walking down the street for a chat, but until you've got the selfie out of the way, people aren't ready to talk.

David Byrne

Technology has altered the way music sounds, how it’s composed and how we experience it. It has also flooded the world with music. The world is awash with (mostly) recorded sounds. We used to have to pay for music or make it ourselves; playing, hearing and experiencing it was exceptional, a rare and special experience. Now hearing it is ubiquitous, and silence is the rarity that we pay for and savor.

David Boies

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

David Bohm

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

David Ben-Gurion

Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli youth, who respond to the challenge of our desolute areas and the ingathering of the exiles; the feeling of Diaspora Jewry that they are partners in the enterprise of Israel's resurgence in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people; and the power of science, and technology which Israel unceasingly, and not without success, tries to enhance.

Dave Grohl

I think maybe what happened was the convenience of technology overshadowed the experience of holding an album in your hands, and sitting on your bedroom floor, and staring at a picture of John Lennon or Gene Simmons or Johnny Rotten. That tangible experience can sometimes become an even more emotional experience, because it's really happening.

Dave Grohl

You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.

Dave Grohl

When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.

Condoleezza Rice

What we will not wait for is that particular nexus of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction that is extremism, and the technology to come together in a way that is harmful to the United States.

Muhammad Yunus

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

Billy Graham

Everybody is a sinner before God. And I think we magnify it today because we have television, and we have so many other technologies that make what happens in some other part of the world in our living room.

Bjork

If you can make nature and technology friends, then you can make everyone friends; you can make everyone intact. That's what women do a lot - they're the glue between a lot of things.

Bill Laswell

I don't think technology is viable unless the person applying it has something to say.

Claude Vorilhon

Let us embrace Science and the new technologies unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease, death and the sweat of labor.

Colin Angle

That's exciting because to create new value in the robot space quickly, you need to stand on the shoulders of other technological developments.

Colin Angle

When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.

Colin Angle

The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.

Clement Mok

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

Dan Quayle

Information technology has brought people much closer together than ever before, providing a democratizing and mostly stabilizing influence.

Cynthia Ozick

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

Cliff Stearns

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

Clifford D. Simak

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology

Clifford Stoll

Spending an evening on the World Wide Web is much like sitting down to a dinner of Cheetos, two hours later your fingers are yellow and you're no longer hungry, but you haven't been nourished.

Clifford Stoll

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

Carmelo Anthony

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

Ernie Els

We've got the technology out there. It's how you use it.

Orson Scott Card

Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.

Kurt Vonnegut

All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.