Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal?

George W. Bush

I heard there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft.

George W. Bush

The North Korean regime remains one of the world's leading proliferator of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria. The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action.

George W. Bush

There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

Jeremy Stoppelman

About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology, some sort of existential crisis. You just have to be vigilant about looking out for those moments.

Jennifer Stone

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

Jennifer Stone

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.

Jennifer Granholm

There's more technology in your car than there is in your computer. It's got thousands of parts in it. It's extremely sophisticated, all that robotics.

Jeff Cohen

The demand for digital textbooks has increased since its introduction to the marketplace. As students become more familiar with them and computers get faster, larger and more portable, this product will gain in popularity.

Jeff Bezos

The three most important things in retail are location, location, location. The three most important things for our consumer business are technology, technology, technology.

Jeff Bezos

Are you lazy or just incompetent?

Jeff Bezos

I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even in that whirlwind, we kept heads-down focused on the customers. All the metrics that we can track about customers have improved every year.

Jeff Bezos

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

Jeff Bridges

You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.

George Saunders

I've noticed that nowadays I'm doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn't do earlier. And I can feel my brain being rewired: I'm getting anxious, I'm getting more manic. Now, I'm an extreme case because I'm old and I'm overdoing it. But still, it's really interesting that I can actually feel a change in my neurochemistry from this interaction with the technology.

Jeff Zucker

Were in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.

Jeff Pulver

Technology has brought us to a point in which hundreds of millions if not billions of people have a voice, each voice can now be heard.

Jennifer Egan

Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

Jeff Wall

One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then, digital technology is leading, in my work at least, toward a greater reliance on handmaking because the assembly and montage of the various parts of the picture is done very carefully by hand.

Jeff Goodby

I do think that in some ways, the complexity of technology, the things that we all have to deal with in media, have created a new kind of person that is sensitive to media, but also sensitive to the kind of beliefs that people have. And this person can put the two together.

Graham McTavish

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

Godfrey Reggio

What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not the effect of [technology], it is that everything exists with-in [its milieu]. It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

Godfrey Reggio

Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

Godfrey Reggio

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.

Godfrey Reggio

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

Godfrey Reggio

What I'm trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.

Godfrey Reggio

Technology is not neutral.

Godfrey Reggio

It's not that we use technology, we live technology.

Gijs de Vries

I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

Gregory Benford

Any technology that is distinguishable from magic is not sufficiently advanced.

Gregory Benford

Any technology that does not appear magical is insufficiently advanced.

Honor Harger

Our technologised society is becoming opaque. As technology becomes more ubiquitous and our relationship with digital devices ever more seamless, our technical infrastructure seems to be increasingly intangible.