Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Jason Hirschhorn

Email is a 40-year-old technology that is not going away for very good reasons - it's the cockroach of the Internet.

Jason Epstein

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

Carly Fiorina

We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act.

Carly Fiorina

National security is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curve. But secondly, the bureaucratic processes that have been in place since 9/11 are woefully inadequate as well.

Carly Fiorina

As president, the first thing I will do is secure the border. It will take money, manpower, and technology - but most of all, it will take political will.

Evan Williams

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Iran has the technology to produce the highly enriched uranium, which is not automatically meaning nuclear weapon.

Milton Glaser

In an age of computer manipulation, surrealism has become banal, a shadow of its former self.

Kathleen Turner

I don't see anything wrong with technology as long as it doesn't interfere with your life.

Karl Marx

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Karl Marx

Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks which will have to be nationalized and State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to communism.

Nick Rhodes

I'm fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at science and technology because I think that the developments in my lifetime have been so remarkable - and we're only at the tip of the iceberg with projects like decoding the human genome.

Matt Drudge

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

Nicholas Stern

Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks.

Nicholas Negroponte

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

Neal Asher

If I could time travel into the future, my first port of call would be the point where medical technology is at its best because, like most people on this planet, I have this aversion to dying.

Natasha Bedingfield

The music technology scene is changing so fast its hard to keep up.

Muddy Waters

China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.

Mitchell Baker

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

Mikhail Gorbachev

We desperately need to recognize that we are the guests not the masters of nature and adopt a new paradigm for development, based on the costs and benefits to all people, and bound by the limits of nature herself rather than the limits of technology and consumerism.

Ivan Illich

The future depends more upon our choice of institutions which support a life of action than on our developing new ideologies and technologies.

I. King Jordan

Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.

Gloria Naylor

In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make up more than two-thirds of the world, the two-thirds that will not be going online to "save" time but will remain wedded to the knowledge that if the bus doesn't come that day, it will come someday. After all, there is nothing but time.

Ivan Chermayeff

There is no "era" of simple, focused, concept-driven identity design. There is only design that grows out of understanding audiences for specific problems, and that evolves from an idea. This is an approach that does not depend on any specific time period or its technology.

Grace Hopper

We've tended to forget that no computer will ever ask a new question.

Grace Hopper

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

Paul Farmer

In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

Paul Feig

I'm more of a science head, so I was like how would a guy use - if there were ghosts - technology to bring them back?

Paul Berg

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Paul Berg

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies.

Paul Berg

Novel technologies and ideas that impinge on human biology and their perceived impact on human values have renewed strains in the relationship between science and society.