Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

You affect the world by what you browse.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

Sharing is good, and with digital technology, sharing is easy.

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

The great growling engine of change technology.- Alvin Toffler

It's not a faith in technology. It's faith in people.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.

Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

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

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B.: This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.

Technology is no match for human error.

Technology without hatred can be a blessing. Technology with hatred is always a disaster.

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

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

Technology is not neutral.

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule.

It didnt 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.

First we build the tools then they build us.

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then without a doubt you're moving backwards.

The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.

Technology...is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.

One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

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.

Computing used to be an expert driven system; it [became] a personal system that we all owned as part of our daily lives. That shift from mainframe to personal computing is what we have to do for health care.

I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.

I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well shot and well projected film has a very three dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free market state.- Iain Banks

And I have lived since as you have in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order of magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.

I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.

People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.

When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.

I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.

Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal.

Im not sure hes wrong about automobiles he said. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization that is in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world nor to the life of mens souls.

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face to face contact with other people.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.

I love technology, and I don't think it's something that should divide along gender lines.

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.

If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.

The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

Ethics change with technology.

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.

iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

I'm creating the kind of games that I like right now. I'm not being held back by technology.

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

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

Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.

The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.

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

I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.

Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

I have advocated an entirely different approach than cap and tax, which would be worldwide in application and which emphasizes technology as a way of reducing total emissions.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, littleBits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures.

I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Everything that can be invented, has been invented.

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.

This is technology that will not go away. And to risk it moving into the hands of a terrorist group like al Qaeda or to other focused enemies of the United States, would have tragic consequences.

Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anything planned, but we're constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology.

Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.

I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.

Generally, what people tend to underestimate is the cyborg nature of Groupon. We are a company that has the DNA of being both a technology company and a heavily operational company.

In hard core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

The irony is palpable technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

I was terrified by this idea that I would lose the ability to enjoy and appreciate the sunset without having my camera on me, without tweeting it to my friends. It felt like technology should enable magic, not kill it.

There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.

Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

Technological change is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

The telephone is a 100 year old technology. It's time for a change. Charging for phone calls is something you did last century.

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

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

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.

The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each other to a world where everything was interactive.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime a dozen, or cheaper than that.

I know theres a proverb which that says To err is human but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

Magic, like technology, is a tool.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications , targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets.

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

James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

Well, it's very dangerous to project, but it's clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.

Technology is very seductive, and it is certainly changing the way things are designed and made and taught. The problem is when technology has seduced you away from thinking about things as deeply as you should.

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.

Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price.

All this technology has not changed the way NFL Films does business and our process. Yes, with one touch of a button now you reach millions of people but it is still the same approach that my father and I started out with.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push button finger.

We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.

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.

The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!

In pursuing a way Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.

Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never.

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.

Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.

What the country needs are a few labor making inventions.

IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.

I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, without those hackers we wouldn't solve the problems we need to solve, especially security.

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.

My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, 'Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?'

Man is only man at the surface. Remove his skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.

In Japan so many emoticons have been created that its reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.

Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before just to discover something together. This is always my dream.

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

We shouldn't build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on.

The Internet is the petridish of humanity. We cant control what grows in it but we dont have to watch either.

By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.

With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for 100,000, you will sound flawless.

Technology is anything that was invented after you were born.

The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

Life will be much more exciting when we stop creating applications for mobile phones and we start creating applications for our own body.

The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don't think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

I am all for the iPad, but trust me smelling it will get you nowhere.

Technology does not drive change it enables change.

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products iPod, iPhone, iPad that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25 year adoption cycle.

Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.

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

I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.

Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him.

Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

If technology is not a metaphor for memory, what is it?

I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums and possibly a good deal more.

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people; because in a technology company it's always about what are you going to do next.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.

There are many ways of casting molecular spells using DNA. What we really want to do in the end is learn how to program self assembly so that we can build anything.

Do we want something more from our car? ... To perhaps be a partner, a coach, someone that can use their understanding of the situation to help us reach our potential.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

The Linux philosophy is 'Laugh in the face of danger'. Oops. Wrong One. 'Do it yourself'. Yes, that's it.

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.

A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

But some great records are are being made with today's technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn't have emerged when recording was more organic.

As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good.

Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.

I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

The Transition [plane] simultaneously expands our horizons while making the world a smaller, more accessible place. It also continues to be a fabulous adventure.

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

In this century, not only has science changed the world faster than ever, but in new and different ways. Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial intelligence, perhaps even implants into our brains may change human beings themselves.

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.

When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

As technology accumulates and people in more parts of the planet become interdependent the hatred between them tends to decrease for the simple reason that you cant kill someone and trade with him too.

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.

The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

The geopolitical world has got a lot to learn from the digital world, from the ease with which [it] swept away obstacles that no one knew could even be budged.

Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is why,post factum they appear so obvious.

On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology; but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

More often than not, doctors get to meet patients in X ray form.

Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well trained human being but cannot replace him.

New technology enables new kinds of groupforming.

I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful.

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no limits. It was invincible. It was to be conquered and mastered like the Earth herself.

I would like to see every parent either directly if they are comfortable with the technology or through a personal tutor, being able to access real time information about their child.

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.

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.

As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.

For behaviorist films, that's been much more useful the change of technology but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it's more beautiful.

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.

I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much if at all.- Steve Jobs

They gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.

With this CD technology, you can just remix a record right there on the spot.

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

Don't let that weapon technology proliferate. Don't let Saddam Hussein get capability for nuclear or chemical weapons, because he's already shown a willingness to use any weapon at his disposal.

If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them.

Our technology forces us to live mythically

People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.

The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.

Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again conducted with state of the art technology, but still in the old style.

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.

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories... and that requires virtually no technology.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you.

Over the last few years, the world has become a smaller and more integrated place with technology that is leveling the playing field like never before.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

Some people think technology has the answers.

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.

In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we're more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?

Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.

They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.

In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.

Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future.

We expect more from technology and less from each other.

I can't live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It's not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.

These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.

Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self balancing, self adjusting, self cleansing. Not so with technology.

Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.

I don't cook I can cook but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

Technology favors horrible people.

It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload.

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.

That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

Movie making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.

The technology available for film making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.

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

Focus on your music and not technology.

CRATEL is a center with a two fold mission to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.

Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with no eye to our convenience at all.

You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.

Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

For days after the launch, Sputnik was a wonderful curiosity. A man made moon visible by ordinary citizens, it inspired awe and pride that humans had finally launched an object into space.

We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.

We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.

So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Well, that's just not going to happen.

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.

We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.

Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria.

The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.

We're 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.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts.

We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.

I love the 3D revolution. I love the technology today that continues to push the envelope, continues break the new ground, and continues to raise the bar.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

Part of the problem is when we bring in a new technology we expect it to be perfect in a way that we don't expect the world that we're familiar with to be perfect.

Haiti allowed us to glimpse into a future of what disaster response might look like in a hyper connected world.

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

We want to make every single interaction in the world into a ready to use brick.

All of us are engaged in a seismic, fundamental realignment of culture and communications, a realignment that is shaking and decimating the newspaper industry, the magazine industry, the book and publishing industry and more.

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

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

Using Facebook is like taking a Dyson to your spare time.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.

We are already producing enough food to feed the world. We already have technology in place that allows us to produce more than we can find a market for.

Everywhere in a day there is light. Look around. Everywhere. Look at your smart phone. It has a flashlight, an LED flashlight. These are potential sources for high speed data transmission.

At Mach 20, we can fly from New York to Long Beach in 11 minutes and 20 seconds.

The 90s map the decades to come full of invisible technologies that will subcontract many of the functions of the central nervous system.

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

Today, the forces of competition, technology, and globalization have converged to spur innovation and to transform the way business is done in the securities industry.

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

By his very success in inventing labor saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.

We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way.

We had to address information technology in the ways we had not before and give the agents the tools that they need to do their job more efficiently and more expeditiously.

As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

Because I do think not just in building AOL but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

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.

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.

There was a time when nails were high tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.

Instead of trying to make a car that can fly, we decided to try to make a plane that could drive.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

if it works its obsolete

I love technology, and I love new gadgets. I can no longer figure out how to use any of them, but I love them.

Defect free software does not exist.

The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.

If co operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

So if you're a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation.

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

It doesnt matter how long weve used something all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really really awesome whereas ebooksat least so farare fairly limited in their awesomeness.

There is more than a mere suspicion that the scientist who comes to ask metaphysical questions and turns away from metaphysical answers may be afraid of those answers.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy ness a little bit of humanity.

I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.

It's a 360 degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.

The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.

The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite.

Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Technology makes things faster and more cost effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

To say that the first casualty of war is truth is to miss the rather more important point that a principal weapon of war is lies.

Please no matter how we advance technologically please dont abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

Acceptance speech National Book Award 2010 Nonfiction November 17 2010