Top 100 Quotes About New Technology
#1. The Dutch were among the earliest adopters of a new technology - the printed book - and
Russell Shorto
#2. All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake.
Kurt Vonnegut
#3. Where's your trident? I've only seen mermen with a trident that looks like a pitchfork," asked Alden.
"New technology. I upgraded last year to a disc implanted under the skin in my right hand. I don't miss having to carry that clumsy thing. Kept dropping it.
L.R.W. Lee
#4. If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important.
Joel Spolsky
#5. 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.
Ralph Merkle
#6. When new technology in the classroom starts happening, some people get very excited and think of it as a panacea. It attracts very high amounts of money; it raises expectations, and those expectations aren't met.
Mitch Kapor
#7. I think people are trying out ideas with the new technology and it's too early to say where it's going exactly. But again, whether it's digital or paper, it doesn't matter. It's words that somebody is reading and getting an experience out of that reading. That's all that really matters.
Paul Auster
#8. Most established novelists are writing books informed by experiences gained in their youth. Middle age is not the best time to be changing smartphones every six months or adopting new technology platforms - because we tend to get slower and less accommodating to change as we age.
Charles Stross
#9. Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.
Theresa May
#10. 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 DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution
#11. As new technology emerges as the greatest challenge to novels since the advent of film, it may be that the fragmentation of storytelling into installments key to Dickens's era will be recreated in some way.
Matthew Pearl
#12. I was attracted by the curve - the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.
Oscar Niemeyer
#13. If you want to feed the planet and keep the forests we have, you need to be able to grow roughly twice as much food per acre around the world. How do you do that? New technology.
Ramez Naam
#14. Any new technology, if it's used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that's more a question of the politics of the technology.
Geoffrey Hinton
#15. 'Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.
Joe Dante
#16. I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.
Margaret Atwood
#17. I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it.
Anne Sweeney
#18. For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin.
Stewart Brand
#19. In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.
Jim Lee
#20. The beats change, I mean you got a lot of artists out there advancing new sound, new technology, new beats everything sounding very futuristic, so I feel it would have been boring for me to do another hip-hop record.
Kool Keith
#21. I have an iPhone. I like it for the camera and the fact that you can have your email and Twitter and all that stuff in one place. However, unlike most men I know, I hate buying new technology.
John Niven
#22. To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.
Marc Andreesen
#23. I've gone to China, bought a manufacturing company and moved it to America. Now China wants to buy back some of that new technology from me. That's a great story for America.
Terry McAuliffe
#24. 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.
Hugh Grant
#25. If you work with any new technology, you have to expect that it's going to be a little problematic.
Paul W. S. Anderson
#27. Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.
Juan Enriquez
#28. Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.
Norman Borlaug
#29. Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope.
James Dyson
#30. The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.
Robert Kiyosaki
#31. Transparency is all about letting in and embracing new ideas, new technology and new approaches. No individual, entity or agency, no matter how smart, how old, or how experienced, can afford to stop learning.
Gina McCarthy
#32. As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
Nathan Deal
#33. Every new technology represents a trade-off: something is gained, but something is also lost.
Bee Wilson
#34. The benefit to building a startup is that customers don't have the same kind of friction when they adopt new technology.
Aaron Levie
#35. About every year or two, there is a moment of truth where there's some new development in the marketplace, some new technology, some sort of existential crisis. You just have to be vigilant about looking out for those moments.
Jeremy Stoppelman
#36. Technology's always changing. There was a time where oil painting was a new technology. That changed painting.
Joe Bradley
#37. Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.
Peter Thiel
#38. The new technology like iPad and Kindle has been wonderful for me. I can even have the text read out loud while I track along with it. I can highlight parts I need to come back to" - Eddie -
Yvonna Graham
#39. In a world of scarce resources, globalization without new technology is unsustainable.
Peter Thiel
#40. In the earlier part of the 90s, I was really hell-bent on discovering how new technology works and how to make records entirely without a producer, which isn't necessarily what fans wanted. But I had to do it because I felt it was in my destiny or whatever.
Johnny Marr
#41. For new technology to replace old, it has to have at least ten times the benefit.
Peter Drucker
#42. 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.
Tom Holt
#43. With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one must keep up, I maintain, nonetheless, that the real creative power is in the mind and heart of the composer.
Henry Mancini
#44. George Mitchell wasn't the nation's first fracker. Mitchell was mighty early, though. "The majors didn't bother with fracking, they didn't want to fool with it," he says. "I saw it as the new technology.
Gregory Zuckerman
#45. Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
Robert Rodriguez
#46. Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.
Marc Andreessen
#47. Every time a new technology enables more choice, whether it's the VCR or the Internet, consumers clamor for it. Choice is simply what we want and, apparently, what we've always wanted.
Chris Anderson
#48. The technologist's tendency to commit all his resources to new technology,
Michael Lewis
#49. I'm surprised at you! If it will take ten years to make the machine with available technology, and only five years to make it with a new technology, and it will only take two years to invent the new technology, then you can do it in seven years by inventing the new technology first!
Neal Stephenson
#50. Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats.
G. Harry Stine
#51. Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.
Stewart Brand
#52. Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.
James Harden
#53. Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that.
John Frankenheimer
#54. There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them.
Margaret Thatcher
#55. The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.
Michael Eisner
#56. In order to keep up with the criminals and to protect our national security, the solution is clear: we need legislation to ensure that telephone companies and other carriers provide law enforcement with access to this new technology.
Louis J. Freeh
#57. The adoption of new technology finally occurs when ease of use, economic savings, and trust all come together to work toward change. EVERYTHING
Alec J. Ross
#58. We often hear people talk about the concept of 'uberization,' where a new technology completely turns an industry on its head and forces us to rethink the way things have always been done. No industry will remain untouched by these forces.
Klaus Schwab
#59. Every young person gets so excited about new software packages and new technology.
John Lasseter
#60. When we asked college students how they adapted to the tidal wave of new technology, one explained, It's only technology if it happened after you were born.
Arthur Levine
#61. So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
James Dyson
#62. I think people tend to be worried about every new technology that comes along.
Mark Zuckerberg
#63. I'm trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.
Dolly Parton
#64. Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that's an opportunity to go build new technology.
Aaron Levie
#65. Whenever a new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response - that is, high touch - or the technology is rejected ... We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human nature.
John Naisbitt
#66. The stock market's handling of new technology is kind of a joke. We have seen CNBC, CNNfn, Bloomberg, and the like turn into home-shopping networks for stocks. Fund managers and analysts go on TV and sell what's shiny and easy to sell.
Mark Cuban
#67. But each time, nothing was done, because change carried risks, because change led to instability, because new technology meant using precious energy, and because, at the end of the day, no one really cared.
Gemma Malley
#68. There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions.
Elon Musk
#69. Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
David Copperfield
#70. What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything.
Robert Rodriguez
#71. 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.
Jeff Zucker
#72. Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
Tim Berners-Lee
#73. If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.
James Dyson
#74. We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.
Alberto Manguel
#75. Of course, with any new technology, the question in the back of everyone's mind is 'Can I have sex with it or use it to kill people?'
-Flintstones Vol. 2: Bedrock Bedlam
Mark Russell
#76. I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic consequences. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology.
Neil Postman
#77. More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.
Stephen Carter
#78. I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.
Marc Andreessen
#79. 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.
Esther Dyson
#80. I feel like the smartest people in my field are busy reinforcing the old models with new technology.
Douglas Rushkoff
#81. There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.
Hasso Plattner
#82. Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.
James Gleick
#83. I'm a great believer in new technology and I think new technology is very scary for newspaper companies.
James Packer
#84. Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.
Michael Scott
#85. New technology lets you grow the resource pie, which is the only way you can get out between that pincer of rising consumption (as we end poverty) and environmental and natural resource depletion.
Ramez Naam
#86. New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories.
Karen Bass
#87. Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.
Michael J. Saylor
#88. Technological change is not additive; it is ecological. A new technology does not merely add something; it changes everything.
Neil Postman
#89. NAFTA recognizes the reality of today's economy - globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job; it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
John F. Kerry
#90. I don't know concretely if it's due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.
Stu Jackson
#91. If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.
Elon Musk
#92. New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.
Margaret Thatcher
#93. I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary.
Twiggy
#94. New technology, on Earth, just means something you will laugh at in five years. Value the stuff you won't laugh at in five years. Like love. Or a good poem. Or a song. Or the sky.
Matt Haig
#95. I love technology - yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I'm all for new technology.
Mario Andretti
#96. I have to say there are a lot of me-too products and companies. Yet another social network, of the 15th flavor - that's common in every new technology revolution. There are imitators who have marginal improvements.
Tim O'Reilly
#97. We tend to use a new technology to do an old task more efficiently. We pave the cow paths.
Paul Saffo
#98. With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as we farm the land.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
#99. I love the new technology. New things give you a reason to want to go to the studio. New challenges mean you have to keep up, you know?
Dr. Dre
#100. Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.
Diane Duane
