Quotes About Technologies

#1. Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

David Puttnam

#2. Can companies just claim a total lack of political responsibility in how their technology is used in all instances? It's something that companies should be thinking about when they sell their technologies around the world.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#3. And there is such a strategy - though it will seem almost ridiculous in its simplicity, maybe even crazy to those of us who have spent years carefully developing ever more advanced skills and technologies. It is a checklist.

Atul Gawande

#4. The term 'popular culture' always used to mean what the people do - pop songs, folk songs, music in general used to live because people would sing these songs and tell these stories together. Then all of these new technologies came out and it became the work of professionals.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#5. History shows a typical progression of information technologies: from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel-from open to closed system.

Tim Wu

#6. If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution.

Ray Kurzweil

#7. Cutting edge technologies have allowed us to utilize coal's diverse potentials. Not only are we using coal in cleaner and more environmentally sound methods, but importantly, we can turn coal into gasoline and diesel.

Peter Roskam

#8. Why are oil prices so low? First, energy consumption growth rates in developing markets have decreased. This is particularly noticeable in China. Second, new technologies are being developed and the shale gas revolution in the USA has taken place

Kenneth Rogoff

#9. In 1999, I said that in about a decade we would see technologies such as self-driving cars and mobile phones that could answer your questions, and people criticized these predictions as unrealistic.

Ray Kurzweil

#10. Any first-generation technology will. But we are looking at carbon the same way we look at every pollutant under the Clean Air Act; we look for the new technologies that are available. We recognize that these power plants are going to be around for decades.

Gina McCarthy

#11. If we want to implement climate protection worldwide, countries like Germany, which are capable of developing new technologies, will have to hand over some of their knowledge. We can't expect to have our cake and eat it too.

Sigmar Gabriel

#12. Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.

Howard Rheingold

#13. The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves.

Beth Simone Noveck

#14. In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.

Marvin Ammori

#15. We live through sound and light - through our technologies.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#16. New technologies are a good thing but we must consider how they will impact on us so that, when they become achievable, they aren't allowed to run amok.

Jonathan Trigell

#17. What we are seeing now is customers shifting their attention from security products like firewalls and intrusion sensors, to the policies that need to be in place, and the technologies that help them enforce policy compliance.

John W. Thompson

#18. The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.

Estelle Morris

#19. Certainly our cultural fallback position seems to be that our technologies will get us out of everything they have got us into. That looks like a magical thinking to me, but we don't really have a better idea.

Paul Kingsnorth

#20. People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

Paul Hawken

#21. Not only will the development of coal-to-liquid and environmentally friendly sequestration technologies increase our energy security, but these advancements will also help create better, higher-paying American jobs.

Peter Roskam

#22. I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existent problems diminishes.

Evgeny Morozov

#23. Innovative technologies such as cold fusion, and radical energy sources, including sonoluminescent-triggered fusion and anti-gravitational propulsion, are either being withheld or blocked by governments, old-fashioned science academia and multinational corporations.

Takaaki Musha

#24. When the Constitution was written, the founders had no way of anticipating the new technologies that would evolve in the coming centuries.

Al Franken

#25. Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools.

Alfonso Cuaron

#26. Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.

Jon Scieszka

#27. The integration of exponentially growing technologies is beginning to empower the patient, enable the doctor, enhance wellness and begin to cure the well before they get sick.

Daniel Kraft

#28. The descent of sport into spectacle is not unique to the age of genetic engineering. But it illustrates how performance-enhancing technologies, genetic or otherwise, can erode the part of athletic and artistic performance that celebrates natural talents and gifts.

Michael J. Sandel

#29. Independent of politics, the changing narrative on immigration is directly correlated to the fact that we have new technologies that are allowing people to talk to each other and tell their own stories and organize themselves.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#30. New technologies are wreaking havoc on employment figures - from EZpasses ousting toll collectors to Google-controlled self-driving automobiles rendering taxicab drivers obsolete.

Douglas Rushkoff

#31. From solar to electric cars, from geothermal to reconfiguring the grid, the scale of investment needed in green technologies in order to meet whatever agreements on emissions reductions are finally agreed will be immense.

Noreena Hertz

#32. We're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept.

Douglas Rushkoff

#33. A rule for success in today's wild new economic world is this: use the most innovative technologies to deliver the most primal products and services.

Martha N. Beck

#34. We need to transform
the current scientific worldview
into a modern metaphysical
worldview in order to survive
the exponential disruptive technologies
we are about to
unleash upon ourselves

Jonathan R. Banks

#35. The thing that excites me about these informational technologies is I think we are going to be able to use virtual reality to show each other the insides of our own heads.

Terence McKenna

#36. It's the new technologies that govern production and consumption, that guide people's behavior and shape their perceptions.

Nicholas Carr

#37. I am impressed with the innovation in the wireless marketplace. The Blackberry, the iPhone, the Pre, and other smart devices are breakthrough technologies that have helped revolutionize the wireless space.

Julius Genachowski

#38. A whole new series of technologies like biotechnology, virtual reality, and super-computerization are appearing now that are leading us away from our nature-based roots.

Chellis Glendinning

#39. Safer chemicals and more energy-efficient technologies can provide cooling without severe climate implications. Shifting to these alternatives could avoid the equivalent of 12 times the current annual carbon pollution of the United States by 2050.

Frances Beinecke

#40. No new choices are introduced by raising the specter of disaster. These become opportunities for swearing new allegiance to technology. The solution is to discover new technologies that will correct and modify the harm either potentially or already caused by present technologies.

Donald Phillip Verene

#41. When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#42. New information technologies are tools - and to have an impact, tools need users, who in turn need goals, direction, and motivation.

Moises Naim

#43. In the United States, resources exist to retrain displaced workers and promote the development of technologies that create new job opportunities for American workers.

Oscar Arias

#44. Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new technologies - we should work on enhancing the concept of normal by broadening appreciation of anatomical variation.

Alice Dreger

#45. What is Human history, if not an ongoing succession of greater technologies grinding lesser ones beneath their boots?

Peter Watts

#46. The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

Bill Gates

#47. If these examples are typical, then 75 to 95 percent of the productivity gains from many major new technologies were realized only after decades of improvements in the implementation.

James Bessen

#48. The technologies of convenience are making our sphere of exploration and experience smaller.

Robert Englund

#49. I also believe that we have an extraordinary opportunity for the United States and European Union to lead the world in developing and implementing new and more efficient technologies - smart electrical grids and electrical vehicles.

Hillary Clinton

#50. As the clutter of outrageous, fantastical photographs that today occupy Sandy Island's place on Google Earth suggests, Sandy Island's disappearance established it as a rebel base for the imagination, an innocent and an upstart that managed to escape the vast technologies of omni-knowledge.

Anonymous

#51. I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.

Ted Ligety

#52. Suppose that climate change is not real and all we do is adopt green technologies, which our economy and our technology is perfectly capable of. Then all we've done is given our kids a cleaner world.

John McCain

#53. His mind wandered, seeking other examples. People - particularly older ones - still spoke of putting film into a camera, or gas into a car. Even the phrase "cutting a tape" was still sometimes heard in recording studios - though that embraced two generations of obsolete technologies.

Arthur C. Clarke

#54. Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative.

Lee Kun-hee

#55. Technologies simmer along before they are feasible. That simmer can be short or long, but then they get traction. And from there to being huge is a couple of decades.

Klaus Lackner

#56. The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

Ralph Merkle

#57. I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced space travel, time travel, the discovery of green monsters on other planets or galaxies, or that contain various technologies we have not yet developed.

Margaret Atwood

#58. I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

Michel Gondry

#59. For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.

Rebecca Goldstein

#60. No-tech tourism is a form of temporal eco-tourism in which one reads books or watches film and TV precisely because of the absence of 21st-century technologies.

Douglas Coupland

#61. Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

Henry Petroski

#62. His fingerprints are all over today's technologies. Photoelectric cells and lasers, nuclear power and fiber optics, space travel, and even semiconductors all trace back to his theories.

Walter Isaacson

#63. It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

Neal Stephenson

#64. The jobs in the greatest demand in the future don't yet exist and will require workers to use technologies that have not yet been invented to solve problems that we don't yet even know are problems.

Gavin Newsom

#65. Diverse groups of countries can do a lot by trading amongst themselves, exploiting differences in costs, resources, and technologies.

Daniel Altman

#66. Apple has a complex suite of proprietary technologies, both in hardware (like superior touchscreen materials) and software (like touchscreen interfaces purpose-designed for specific materials).

Peter Thiel

#67. New technologies can be used for destructive purposes. The answer is to develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorist creating a new biological virus.

Ray Kurzweil

#68. Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over.

Jeff Koons

#69. We live in a world where, for whatever reason, the conversations that tend to stick are the ones where 'if it bleeds, it leads.' But we've always been afraid of new technologies in spite of the fact that they've helped improve our lives in countless ways.

Jason Silva

#70. The highbrow/lowbrow schizophrenia of Twitter never stops amazing me. It's the Chris Farley of technologies.

Christian Rudder

#71. When combined with information and communication technologies, microcredit can unleash new opportunities for the world's poorest entrepreneurs and thereby revitalize the village economies they serve.

Madeleine Albright

#72. Teens are desperate to have access to and make sense of public life; understanding the technologies that enable publics is just par for the course.

Danah Boyd

#73. I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

Sebastian Thrun

#74. When commercializing disruptive technologies, they found or developed new markets that valued the attributes of the disruptive products, rather than search for a technological breakthrough so that the disruptive product could compete as a sustaining technology in mainstream markets.

Clayton M Christensen

#75. Whenever we turn on our computer, we are plunged into an ecosystem of interruption technologies,

Nicholas Carr

#76. Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

Amory Lovins

#77. Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

Freeman Dyson

#78. A project leader should always work with proven technologies in most of the systems as far as possible and experiment only from multiple resources.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#79. I think we are always right to worry about damaging consequences of new technologies even as we are empowered by them. History suggests we should not panic nor be too sanguine about cool new gizmos. There's a delicate balance.

James Gleick

#80. A powerful force drives the world toward a converging commonality, and that force is technology. ... Almost everyone everywhere wants all the things they have heard about, seen, or experienced via the new technologies.

Theodore Levitt

#81. The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.

Rick Smolan

#82. I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

Paul Krugman

#83. Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs?

Charles Bass

#84. Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.

Al Franken

#85. The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games.

Robert Cailliau

#86. Technologies for stimulating the brain and controlling the mind can have benefits, but they have a dark side that military and intelligence planners have been exploiting for decades

Nick Begich

#87. Many new technologies come with a promise to change the world, but the world refuses to cooperate.

Henry Petroski

#88. Whole new businesses will emerge around breakthrough products as revolutionary technologies accelerate capitalism's creative destruction of slower industries.

Robert Kiyosaki

#89. If you look at the history of communication, new technologies like the phone and e-mail didn't just let people do things faster; it fundamentally changed the scope of the kinds of projects people dared to take on.

Justin Rosenstein

#90. With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed.

Jon Porter

#91. We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?

Helen Clark

#92. I am hardly a technophobe. But we will get the best of these technologies only if we don't let them distract us from making these deep human connections, addressing these deep human longings, and inspiring these deep human energies.

Thomas L. Friedman

#93. We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible technologies. But what was most important, we'd created the teams, what I call the human factor. People who were energized by a mission.

Gene Kranz

#94. We are products not of our technologies, but of our choices about how to use them.

Mal Fletcher

#95. Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks.

Nicholas Stern

#96. We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.

Larry Page

#97. Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.

James Buchan

#98. I love my DSL, but I love my WiFi more. And I probably get on the Internet 40 percent to 50 percent more because of the combination of those technologies.

Michael K. Powell

#99. Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations.

Martin Heinrich

#100. Incantations for Muggles:
The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life

Danah Boyd