Quotes about technology
technology use launching
There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it. Peter Erskine
technology design going-for-it
Fiat has a lot going for it in terms of design, technology and efficiency.
technology want free-market
I don't want the technology of the 1950s, but I want the free market of the 1950s. Peter Schiff
technology reality thinking
I think for a while now people have been scared to be out of TMT the commonly used acronym for technology-media-telecom stocks, which have tended to rise in tandem recently and the feeling has really been you have to be there...but now we're getting a dose of reality. Peter Oppenheimer
technology family-and-friends pay
Everywhere we look, technology has changed our daily lives - from the way we pay our bills, to the way we buy plane tickets or keep in touch with friends and family. Peter Roskam
technology thinking people
I think Chris Matthews is a very bright guy. I'd listen to him even if he didn't shout at people. Peter Jennings
technology superhero way
I don’t really like the Hollywood blockbuster bandwagon that exists right now. The industry and the advent of all the technology, has kind of lost its way. It’s become very franchise driven and superhero driven. Peter Jackson
technology connections tasks
We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
technology knives knowing
The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift. They are what it is made for. But sometimes a tool may have other uses that you don't know. Sometimes in doing what you intend, you also do what the knife intends, without knowing. Philip Pullman
technology world videogame
I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world. Rachel Dratch
technology thinking oil
We always say Jordan is not rich in natural resources - we don't have oil or gas like some of our neighbors do - but I think in terms of human resources, we are quite lucky and we are really trying to foster an environment of innovation and technology. I think Jordan will emerge as a center of innovation in the Middle East. Queen Rania of Jordan
technology support stories
The movies I make and my interests are always about pushing the technology as far as we can in support of telling great stories and showing an audience things they haven't seen before. Joseph Kosinski
technology engineering faculty
In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology. Koichi Tanaka
technology study tradition
The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies. Koichi Tanaka
technology self firsts
Clearly, we are self-made. We are the first technology. We are part inventor and part the invented Kevin Kelly
technology minimum amount
Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options. Kevin Kelly
technology
Technology is anything that doesn't work yet. Kevin Kelly
technology ideas memes
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. We multiply manufactured artifacts and spread ideas and memes. Kevin Kelly
technology mind usefulness
Technology is all the accumulated usefulness that our minds invent. Kevin Kelly
technology media years
Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y's who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously. Kevin Kelly
technology born
Technology is anything that was invented after you were born. Kevin Kelly
technology opportunity ubiquity
Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants: Increasing efficiency Increasing opportunity Increasing emergence Increasing complexity Increasing diversity Increasing specialization Increasing ubiquity Increasing freedom Increasing mutualism Increasing beauty Increasing sentience Increasing structure Increasing evolvability Kevin Kelly
technology machines life-is
Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become more organic, more biological, more like life, because life is the best technology for living. Kevin Kelly
technology phones cells
All these computers, all these handhelds, all these cell phones, all these laptops, all these servers - what we're getting out of all these connections is we're getting one machine. ... We're constructing a single, global machine. Kevin Kelly
technology winning games
What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing. Kevin Kelly
technology diversity mind
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use, and with increasing specialization. Minds are the ideal way to express complexity, energy density, increasing specialization, expanding diversity -- all in one system. Mindedness is what evolution produces. Mindedness is what technology wants, too. Kevin Kelly
technology humans organs
Humans are the reproductive organs of technology. Kevin Kelly
technology space difficult
It's very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again. James Chanos
technology rooms technique
Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision between spontaneous activities and technique is catastrophic for the spontaneous activities. Jacques Ellul
technology use world
What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in the use of a natural force but in the application of technique to all spheres of life. Jacques Ellul
technology order civilization
The qualities which technique requires for its advance are precisely those characteristics of a technical order which do not represent indivisual intelligence...The individual, in order to make use of technical instruments, no longer needs to know about his civilization. Jacques Ellul
technology order civilization
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. Jacques Ellul
technology play world
Again I want to emphasize that the study of propaganda must be conducted within the context of a technological society. Propaganda is called upon to solve problems created by technology, to play on maladjustments, and to integrate the individual into a technological world. Jacques Ellul