Quotes About Communications Technology

#1. Harnessing new communications technology offers one promising way to make public participation easier and more effective.

Peter Roskam

#2. A world remade in the image of Walt Disney, and driven by an increasingly sophisticated communications technology, is the total breakdown of civilization.20

Morris Berman

#3. I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.

Whitfield Diffie

#4. I joined the Aspen Institute, which is a terrific nonpartisan center. They have a wonderful effort that focuses on the impact of communications technology on society and our economy.

Julius Genachowski

#5. The internet has grown so tremendously fast in our society. It is the fastest communications technology in the history of the world. (It) grew from almost a dead stop in 1995 to having 80 million users in the United States alone in five years. Nothing has grown that fast.

William E. Kennard

#6. Twenty-first century communications technology rendering the planet not so much global village as global schoolroom full of sniggering male virgins and bitchy female hypocrites.

Christopher Brookmyre

#7. 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?

Tom Clancy

#8. The strategic agreement with Rockchip is an example of Intel's commitment to take pragmatic and different approaches to grow our presence in the global mobile market by more quickly delivering a broader portfolio of Intel architecture and communications technology solutions.

Brian Krzanich

#9. 'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll.

Pico Iyer

#10. We are living in an era of anxiety produced by computer and communications technology.

Mitch Kapor

#11. Which European leader today would not relish the wonder-working powers of a Moses? Budget deficit? Unpopular cuts? How about just a little miracle, an overnight increase in gold reserves, a new oil field, or the next world-changing communications technology? Surely that's not too much to ask.

Jonathan Sacks

#12. Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tasking, multi-channels, multi-this and multi-that.

Li Ka-shing

#13. I want to go back to bed. but i don't just want to go back to bed.

Alex Flinn

#14. Oh, my mom. She's one of my biggest fans.

Patina Miller

#15. You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.

Bruce Feiler

#16. The new information technology ... Internet and e-mail ... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Peter Drucker

#17. If technology and communications can adapt to people's modern lifestyles, then why can't our labor laws follow suit? Private-sector businesses continue to live under an outdated federal mandate that says the only way to compensate for overtime is through cash wages.

Renee Ellmers

#18. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything.

Emma Thompson

#19. Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation - the result of which is impossible to predict.

Malcolm McLaren

#20. We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.

B.W. Powe

#21. But today, just a few years into the twenty-first century, we already find ourselves in a different and precarious position. As revolutions in communications and technology have broken down barriers across the world, it has given more power to both our competitors and our enemies.

Barack Obama

#22. The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location.

John Sculley

#23. Fantastic technology behind it, was the last word in man's quest for perfect communications. Here he was, far out in space, speeding away from Earth at thousands of miles an hour, yet in a few milliseconds he could see the headlines of any newspaper he pleased.

Arthur C. Clarke

#24. As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.

Stephen Bayley

#25. Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

Kobo Abe

#26. The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

Richard M. Weaver

#27. Participating in the newest communications technologies becomes compulsory if you want to remain part of the culture.

David Porush

#28. The past is a place you can learn from, not a place you want to live.

Tony Robbins

#29. The most important impact of technology on communications security is that it draws better and better traffic into vulnerable channels.

Whitfield Diffie

#30. Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology and telecom community. His contributions to innovating communications have forever changed our industry and our lives. He will be greatly missed.

Steve Largent

#31. Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology.

Jean-Marie Messier

#32. The best evangelists, the best preachers, the best teachers are desperate people.

Tullian Tchividjian

#33. Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

Gordon Brown

#34. It had not occurred to anybody in the crowd - that simple trick of inquiring about somebody who wasn't ten thousand miles away. The magician was hit hard; it was an emergency that had never happened in his experience before, and it corked him; he didn't know how to meet it.

Mark Twain

#35. When, oh when will justice and reason prevail, and Woman descend from the pedestal on which Man has placed her (in order to prevent her from doing anything except standing perfectly still) and take her rightful place beside him?

Elizabeth Peters

#36. When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.

Barack Obama

#37. Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.

Vladimir Putin

#38. Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

Paul Rand

#39. I love living in New York.

Chelsea Clinton