Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esther Dyson

People need to understand that the technology is for them. It's not to them. It's not over them. People still sometimes want to be led a little too much.

Ezra Klein

We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism.

Fisher Stevens

Technology changing the world so quickly. I think it's even more difficult for older people to keep up in the world. And that's a challenge.

Henry Mintzberg

Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism.

Henry Mintzberg

So technologies, whether it is a telephone or an iPhone, computers in general or automobiles, television even, all individualize us. We all sit in front of our iPhones and communicating but are we really communicating?

Henry Louis Gates

We really invented the genre of tracing family trees and going back as far as we could on the paper trail. When the paper trail disappeared, we used DNA analysis. The technology was just being invented that allowed you to trace ancestry through DNA.

Henning Mankell

I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.

Jeffrey Sachs

Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.

James Buchan

Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.

James C. Collins

Those who build great companies understand that the ultimate throttle on growth for any great company is not markets, or technology, or competition, or products. It is one thing above all others: the ability to get and keep enough of the right people.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land.

Jackie Stewart

There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.

Christopher Lee

When I first read “Lord of the Rings”, I wanted to see a film of it. But at that time, the technology wasn't there, there was no such thing as CGI.

Frank Miller

What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

Christopher Flavin

Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundance—and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive with fossil fuels. In combination, these energy options represent the most robust alternative to the current energy system, capable of providing the diverse array of energy services that a modern economy requires. Given the urgency of the climate problem, that is indeed convenient.

Christina Aguilera

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

Christian Lous Lange

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

Chris Sanders

You know, the technology was at the right place for us to build this world. The most difficult thing about doing The Croods was no doubt the building of the world. Every single thing in this film is organic. Organic things are tough. Very very labour intensive. And we have no man-made structures. You could argue that everything in this film is really an exterior. Even the interiors of the cave are exteriors. So building this world was the biggest thing of all, and the technology was there to do it.

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.

Gary Numan

I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

Gabe Newell

The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.

I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

Chris Hardwick

The idea of the archetypal nerd is totally blurred these days. So many people of this current generation have grown up with technology and video games. It's just a part of the world now, a part of our shared culture.

Christopher Anderson

Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment recognizes that competitiveness at a local level. We'd expect employers in other states to use this site as they consider where in Massachusetts to locate or expand their presence.

Christopher Bond

The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.

Christiane Amanpour

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

Chris Wedge

I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.

Chris Wedge

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

Chris Wedge

Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.

Chris O'Dowd

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

Chris Hughes

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

Chris Hughes

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

George W. Bush

...we have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil...The best way to break this addiction is through technology