Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

We've had a startling reversal in technology stocks.

Ginni Rometty

And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actually have to do my engineer - I was an electrical engineer, but I could apply it. And that was when I changed. And when I got there, though, I have to say, at the time, I really never felt there was a constraint about being a woman. I really did not.

At the end of the day, the technology is only a tool. If no one uses the tool, we've wasted time and resources.

Michael Scott

Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

Sherwood Boehlert

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.

Sherwood Boehlert

Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.

Sherwood Boehlert

We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.

Sherry Turkle

We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place,

Sherry Turkle

Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

Sherry Turkle

I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability? We begin to define things in terms of what technology enables and technology allows.

Sherry Turkle

We're letting [technology] take us places that we don't want to go.

Sherry Turkle

We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.

Sherry Turkle

People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of Wired magazine. Then things began to change. In the early 80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.

Sherry Turkle

It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation. I do studies where I just sit for hours and hours at red lights watching people unable to tolerate being alone. Its as though being along has become a problem that needs to be solved and then technology presents itself as a solution to this problem…Being alone is not a problem that needs to be solved. The capacity for solitude is a very important human skill.

Sherry Turkle

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

Sherry Turkle

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

Sherry Turkle

Technology doesn't just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are.

Sherry Turkle

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

Nicolas Cage

I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.

Nora Roberts

What is technology?... It's another god.

Niels Bohr

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The opposite of manliness isn't cowardice; it's technology.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

All of technology, really, is about maximizing free options.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.

Ray Bradbury

It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God.

Ramez Naam

If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology.

Ramez Naam

New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.

Ramez Naam

Unfortunately, in the environment, I don't see as much willingness to invest heavily in R&D as I do in consumer technology. And that's a pity.

Ramez Naam

You have to be willing to spend an awful lot in that R&D phase before you see the benefits. When you look at the companies that have really won customers over in technology - say, Apple and Google - you find that they spend billions of dollars on R&D each year, often spending that much on a product before they ever make a dime back in profits.

Ramez Naam

In the food case in particular, one of the technologies that could help there - genetic technologies that could create better crops with higher yields and less need for water and fertilizer - is tremendously feared. Very little of that fear is scientifically grounded.

Ramez Naam

Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way.