Top 100 A Technology Quotes
#1. The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.
Jaron Lanier
#2. For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.
Andy Serkis
#3. I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.
Roelof Botha
#4. When you're leading, you're generally trying to lead change, and I think it was Roy Amara, who said about technology, "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run." And I think the same applies to change within an organization.
Harry West
#5. Where folks like Google have fallen down is in just putting a little review box up, then closing their eyes and letting the algorithm take care of itself. Yelp is a technology company, but also a company that understands how people want to connect with one another.
Jeremy Stoppelman
#6. There's something about being a woman in a technology space, unless you happen to be model beautiful, where there's always, always talk about what you look like.
Mitchell Baker
#7. When a technology, regardless of how different and difficult it is, sustains the trajectory of performance improvement, my research asserts that the leaders in the prior generation of technology are likely to end up on top of their industry at the end of the transition.
Clayton Christensen
#8. For a technology company to succeed, he argued, it needed always to be looking to destroy itself. If it didn't, someone else would.
Michael Lewis
#9. Performance capture is a technology, not a genre; it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.
Andy Serkis
#10. 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.
John Patrick
#11. I've done a lot of films that are purely live-action roles, and even if I hadn't come across performance capture as a technology, I think I'd always consider myself a sort of mercurial actor.
Andy Serkis
#12. Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at.
Steven Pinker
#13. If you're a technology investor, and you decide that you're also going to be a healthcare investor or a green-tech investor, that doesn't usually work out that well. There are reasons why people make their careers studying these things and becoming experts.
Bill Maris
#14. Typography is not only a technology but is in itself a natural resource or staple, like cotton or timber or radio; and, like any staple, it shapes not only private sense ratios but also
patterns of communal interdependence.
Marshall McLuhan
#15. For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#16. Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
Naoto Kan
#17. Trying to get a read on Apple Computer is a lot like learning about quantum physics; you can never know Apple's position on a technology, and its direction, simultaneously.
Mark Pesce
#18. We actually created Twitter and Odeo at the same time. When we realized we didn't really want to be running Odeo anymore we looked around for anyone who wanted to buy Odeo, but not acquire us as a technology. But people aren't as interested in that.
Biz Stone
#19. I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they are surrounded are cultural artifacts worthy of their attention and respect.
Bruno Latour
#20. Coming from a technology background, I mostly worked behind the scenes or let the men take the lead. I had to learn to assert myself, communicate and be heard. I made sure that once I had my voice, I spoke for those who didn't
especially women,
Regina Agyare
#21. Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don't have a technology to solve that, right? So the point is not to prioritize problems; the point is to prioritize solutions to problems.
Bjorn Lomborg
#22. I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.
Walter Kirn
#23. The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
Ralph Merkle
#24. It could be a technology that would erase a feeling that an entire generation felt while staring into their computer screens.
Nick Bilton
#25. Nature is the ultimate technology; a technology we are still too immature, arrogant, possessive and careless to care for responsibly.
Bryant McGill
#26. Those who find it hypocritical of others to use, say, a smartphone, to speak ill of capitalism, needs to be reminded that capitalism is an ideology, not a technology.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#27. Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.
Steven Pinker
#28. If a technology is elegant, biodegradable, made from renewable materials and employs a minimum of muscular, water or wind energy, is responsive, beautiful in its way, and challenging to the user in that it develops the user's senses and strength - it may comport with nature.
Stephanie Mills
#29. Virtual reality is a technology that could actually allow you to connect on a real human level, soul-to-soul, regardless of where you are in the world.
Chris Milk
#30. Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way.
Ramez Naam
#31. 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.
Jack Schmitt
#32. 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.
Marissa Mayer
#33. 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.
Tim Berners-Lee
#34. The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.
Alan Kay
#35. It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail.
Robert A. Heinlein
#36. Learning how to understand how technology evolves, using tools like a Technology Road Map, is what you need more than anything to ride on top of the tsunami instead of being crushed by it.
Peter Diamandis
#37. Silicon Valley has been a technology capital like New York is a financial capital.
Bill Maris
#38. We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.
Roy Amara
#39. I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.
Ian Jackson
#40. Drons change the way politicians think about war. You already have society's barriers against war dropping, and now you have a technology that takes the barriers to the ground. We can carry it out without having to deal with some of the consequences of sending our sons and daughters into harm's way.
P. W. Singer
#41. Many bought into the idea that America could go from a technology-based, export-oriented powerhouse to a services-led, consumption-based economy - and somehow still expect to prosper. That idea was flat wrong. Our economy tilted instead toward the quicker profits of financial services.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#42. I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.
Gijs De Vries
#43. Twitter is not a technology. It's a conversation and it's happening with or without you.
Charlene Li
#44. People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.
Donald Sadoway
#45. My passions were an intersection between peace in the Middle East and climate change. I know how to understand a technology problem, break it into its components and solve it. I also knew I couldn't make peace solely through technological inventions.
Shai Agassi
#46. The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.
Joshua Cohen
#47. If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.
Michael Porter
#48. We might say that a technology is to a medium as the brain is to the mind.
Neil Postman
#49. You go to a technology conference or an engineering conference, there are very few women there. At the same time it's a blessing in the fact that you do get noticed. People tend to remember you as the only woman in the room 'who said that', or the only woman in the room who was an engineer.
Padmasree Warrior
#50. I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system than as a technology.
Jaron Lanier
#51. The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.
Ben Bernanke
#52. If a technology is beneficial, everyone should have it. If it is not, no one should have it.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#53. 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.
Kit Bond
#54. There were still too many people who were afraid of a technology that eluded them, still more who would never have access and resented and feared it in equal measures. Mobilize those groups just once, find a demagogue-and there always were demagogues-and the nets would find themselves destroyed.
Melissa Scott
#55. Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn't before possible, new kinds of politics emerge.
Howard Rheingold
#56. Our expectations for a technology rise with its advancement.
Henry Petroski
#58. With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years.
James Hansen
#59. there is no name for what he's looking for, which, typically, is a technology, or an idea, on the cusp of commercial viability. The new new thing.
Michael Lewis
#60. The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.
Chris Anderson
#61. Bitcoin is a currency, bitcoin is a network, bitcoin is a technology and you can't separate these things. A consensus network that bases its value on the currency does not work without the currency.
Andreas Antonopoulos
#62. Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.
Jesse James Garrett
#63. From a product development perspective, choosing whether a technology is disruptive at a potential moment is key.
Steven Sinofsky
#64. If Apple's a technology company in the music industry, why can't somebody in the music industry make technology?
Will.i.am
#65. I build things that I think are exciting from a technology standpoint and will help make life easier, simpler and better for people.
Philippe Kahn
#66. We really kind of pioneered a technology here at Fossil Rim where we use ultrasound on both our white rhinos and black rhinos and we can even document pregnancy in animals at about 30 days.
Bruce Williams
#67. Ideally, content should be shared, mixed, mashed, and reposted - it wants to flow through the Internet like water. This was the point of RSS, after all - a technology that has actually been declared dead more often than the lowly display banner.
John Battelle
#68. CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.
Heather Brooke
#69. Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.
Daniel H. Wilson
#70. What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.
Nicholas G. Carr
#71. This is a technology where without external input, you create a chemistry of blissfulness within you.
Jaggi Vasudev
#72. And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
Toni Cade Bambara
#73. Well, technology is supposed to make life better," she says. "No matter what you believe, there's a technology out there for you.
Veronica Roth
#74. Apple, at its best, isn't a technology leader.
Robert Scoble
#75. Twitter is not a technology company, it is a publishing company.
Eric Schmidt
#76. The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.
Seth Godin
#77. To speak of television as 'neutral' and therefore subject to change is as absurd as speaking of the reform of a technology such as guns.
Jerry Mander
#79. Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It's a technology that brings people together.
Bono
#80. Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know.
Donna Farhi
#81. We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
Ted Chiang
#82. We need a revolution instead of a technology evolution.
Peter Sunde
#83. Most people who are on the inside of a technology have no idea what it's like to look at from an end user's point of view. This is why they have focus groups. I'm really familiar with this because I worked 10 years for Hallmark Cards in the U.S.
Pat Cadigan
#84. Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum.
David Titley
#85. I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.
Larry Page
#86. Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.
Leonard Maltin
#87. 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.
Andrew Mason
#88. I practice neither black nor white magic.
What I do is a technology that I use for my own individual purposes. I don't strive to be a member of a club.
Christopher Rankin
#89. The reason steampunk attracts people is that it is premised on a technology which is visible and pleasing to the naked eye, and whose moving parts are comprehensible on a human scale.
Nick Harkaway
#90. What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.
Jaggi Vasudev
#91. Those who are experts in the fields of surveillance, privacy, and technology say that there need to be two tracks: a policy track and a technology track. The technology track is encryption. It works and if you want privacy, then you should use it.
Laura Poitras
#92. Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide.
Arkady Volozh
#94. Am I nostalgic for film? ... I mean, it's had a good run, hasn't it? You know, I'm not nostalgic for a technology. I'm nostalgic for the kind of films that used to be made that aren't being made now.
Roger Deakins
#95. Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.
K. Eric Drexler
#96. The great thing about Ticketmaster is that it's seen as the comprehensive site for ticketing, artist information, venue information. We're a marketing platform, not just a technology platform, and we're going to build on it.
Irving Azoff
#97. [A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact, experienced.
Edmund Crispin
#98. For the user, it doesn't matter whether he is getting access on Wi-Fi, 3G or 2G networks. What matters is good connectivity, and as a technology provider, our job is to hide the complexity of the technology.
Padmasree Warrior
#99. Like any great art, the culture of hip-hop has changed with the times. With the state of technology, music is more accessible and freely exchanged. For hip-hop to grow while keeping a sense of integrity, the essence of the culture has to be handed down and respected like any high form of art.
One9
#100. Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.
Virgil Goode
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