Quotes about technology
technology media world
Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world. Simon Mainwaring
technology world neurosis
If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows. Richard Brautigan
technology phones people
The institutions are working better now, the banks are much more functional. At this time, 1997, there were no mobile phones! It's a whole different thing now with mobile phones: technology has created a form of regulation, because people can actually talk to each other a lot more. Rem Koolhaas
technology people trying
We've definitely cracked the technology. Now we're just trying to be able to produce the amount of fuels that we need to satisfy our own needs and then other people's needs. Richard Branson
technology government law
We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government. Timothy Murphy
technology radiation medical
The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure. Timothy Murphy
technology government years
For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal. Tim Holden
technology men standards-set
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. Thor Heyerdahl
technology machines use
The machine technology takes no cognizance of conventionally established rules of precedence; it knows neither manners nor breeding and can make no use of any of the attributes of worth. Thorstein Veblen
technology engineering people
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed. Robert A. Heinlein
technology trying fundamentals
Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief. Tim O'Reilly
technology people computer
Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things. Tim O'Reilly
technology machines use
Machinery is aggressive. The weaver becomes a web, the machinist a machine. If you do not use the tools, they use you. All tools are in one sense edge-tools, and dangerous. Ralph Waldo Emerson
technology mass-destruction white
Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement. Scott Ritter
technology people machines
When computers (people) are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines (people), essentially making the entire network their computer. Scott McNealy
technology people computer
This is a big deal. It's a fairly natural partnership; it shouldn't surprise people, ... We're working on bringing this network-is-the-computer, Net services environment. Scott McNealy
technology talking microsoft
Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system... I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too. Scott McNealy
technology letters able
The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T. Scott McNealy
technology bananas shelves
Technology has the shelf life of a banana. Scott McNealy
technology long would-be
For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date. Laurent Fabius
technology pieces united-states
A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that. Laurie Anderson
technology stuff lows
You can do great things with low-tech stuff. Laurie Anderson
technology stories campfire
Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. Laurie Anderson
technology thinking hands
Technology is killing us. We think it's helping us but it's killing us. Don't ask me why because I don't have the time or the attention span to complete that thought. Now let's all hold hands and draw spider monkeys. Thom Yorke
technology people connecting
I like connecting with people through technology. Theophilus London
technology illustration two-sides
Economic growth and environmental preservation are two sides of the same coin. There's no better illustration of that point than the California Clean Tech Open, which challenges California entrepreneurs to bring new, clean technologies to market. I encourage business leaders, policy makers, and environmental advocates to support this innovative, exciting competition. Terry Tamminen
technology men phones
They explained that if men want to put a large phone into their jeans, it has to be able to fit their buttocks. This is a company ranked worldwide number 1, number 2 in displays, and their marketing says this. Terry Gou
technology years discipline
Our strategic evolution has established Monsanto as the leading innovator in agricultural seeds and technology, .. The financial discipline we have exercised has also allowed us to establish a solid foundation which is poised for growth in the years ahead. Terry Crews
technology information action
As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action. Shoshana Zuboff
technology division-of-labor challenges
If the technology cannot shoulder the entire burden of strategic change, it nevertheless can set into motion a series of dynamicsthat present an important challenge to imperative control and the industrial division of labor. The more blurred the distinction between what workers know and what managers know, the more fragile and pointless any traditional relationships of domination and subordination between them will become. Shoshana Zuboff
technology body amplify
Technology represents intelligence systematically applied to the problem of the body. It functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the body; it compensates for the body's fragility and vulnerability ... Shoshana Zuboff
technology intellectual tasks
Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information. Shoshana Zuboff
technology world new-places
Technology makes the world a new place. Shoshana Zuboff