Top 100 Quotes About Technology
#1. The launch of iPhone is very possibly bigger than the launch of the first Apple II or the first Mac. Steve Jobs's genius is his ability to use technology to create products that define fundamental cultural shifts.
John Sculley
#2. Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.
Antonio Damasio
#3. I started my career as a surgeon 25 years ago. But it turned out that I am not talented as a surgeon, so I decided to change my career. But I still feel that I am a doctor. So my goal, all my life, is to bring this stem-cell technology to the bedside.
Shinya Yamanaka
#4. For heaven's sake, this is 2015. I've run the largest technology company in the world. Let me assure you we know how to build an employer verification system that would work. We can solve this. We just need to do it.
John Kasich
#5. It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid rain, topsoil erosion, tropical deforestation, exponential population growth. Jobs and wages depend on science and technology.
Carl Sagan
#6. I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.
Sarah Zettel
#7. 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
#8. My name is James Holden," he said, "and my ship, the Canterbury, was just destroyed by a warship with stealth technology and what appear to be parts stamped with Martian navy serial numbers. Data stream to follow.
James S.A. Corey
#9. Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes ... that reflect the technology around me.
Alexander McQueen
#10. I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
Albert Einstein
#11. The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die: that is our only choice now.
Eckhart Tolle
#12. All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Harvey MacKay
#13. That's the thing about technology, the closer you think it brings you, the further it pulls you apart.
Durjoy Datta
#14. 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.
Steve Jobs
#15. From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.
Preet Bharara
#16. No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more of a small shop mindset well into the twentieth century, for instance.
Charles R. Morris
#17. Grassroots techies - the mostly unknown people who write code and start companies that don't make the headlines - hate, loathe, and despise Microsoft. At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line. Its products are mocked, its business practices booed.
Virginia Postrel
#18. Technology is a queer thing. It brings you gifts with one hand, and stabs you in the back with the other.
C.P. Snow
#19. I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit and enterprise against anyone.
George H. W. Bush
#20. Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.
Narendra Modi
#21. As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.
Jennifer Stone
#22. Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.
Stephen Jay Gould
#23. The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.
Robert Harris
#24. That's the imagination that happens in the theater. That imagination is translated in film by the film magicians and all the technology.
Ian McKellen
#25. I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.
Douglas Trumbull
#26. Every piece of technology, every piece of art, basically everything manmade comes from an idea.
Pharrell Williams
#27. I'm of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there's really no excuse not to just make your movie.
Dax Shepard
#28. With technology today you can sing like a frog and sound good. And then when you come on stage, what do you do. Some of those artists never toured, probably just hype.
Angelique Kidjo
#29. Use the technology which the engineer as developed, but use it with a humble and questioning spirit. Never allow technology to be your master, and never use it to gain mastery over others.
Marina Lewycka
#30. 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
#31. To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.
Raghav Bahl
#32. I wouldn't say you have an online life and a real life. I think technology is just mapping and organizing what already exists.
Ashton Kutcher
#33. 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
#34. I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
Dana Spiotta
#35. But Japan drew from the challenge the opposite conclusion as China: it threw open its doors to foreign technology and overhauled its institutions in an attempt to replicate the Western powers' rise.
Henry Kissinger
#36. Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials ... or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.
Aaron Levie
#37. We need to find a way to safeguard humanity whilst still offering short-term financial incentives. For sure, we need innovators in finance more than we need innovation in technology.
David W. Wood
#38. The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
Najib Razak
#39. What we refer to as yoga is just a technology to make your energies function by choice, not by compulsion.
Jaggi Vasudev
#40. We're a depraved civilization. All this technology, all the computer games and the iPhones ... nobody will sit for art anymore. What a dismaying state of humanity.
Diane Paulus
#41. Your guess [about the future of technology] is as good as mine. The only thing I'm sure of is (a) most of the predictions I hear are almost certainly wrong, and (b) the things that will turn out to be important will come as a surprise, even though in hindsight they'll seem perfectly obvious.
Steve Krug
#42. 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.
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
#43. Nuclear power is a young technology - there's so much more to be discovered. That's what makes it so exciting to me. Yes, there are problems, but innovative people are going to be able to come up with solutions and bring the technology to its full potential.
Leslie Dewan
#44. Technology is technology and then art form and people's creativity is another thing. Anything that helps an artist do anything - great! Technology for technology sake doesn't mean much to me anyway.
Tim Burton
#45. 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.
Patrick Stewart
#46. Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.
Mario Bunge
#47. Intercultural understanding is a key dimension of the Australian Curriculum. The deployment of technology opens up opportunities for global partnerships and collaboration to grow, increasing opportunities for greater understanding between cultures.
Susan Mann
#48. President Obama said that we rely too much on gadgets. He gave a passionate speech about technology, but he had to stop when the teleprompter broke.
Craig Ferguson
#49. Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.
Herbert Simon
#50. 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.
Brian Eno
#52. 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
#53. When all the people in the world become technology and technology becomes the people, we shall see a new world!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#54. 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?
Emilio Estevez
#55. 'LaFerrari' means 'the Ferrari.' The excellence. In this car, we put everything we are able to do. Our extreme technology, extreme experience, extreme capability. And this has been the first Ferrari totally designed in our design center.
Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo
#56. 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.
Marshall McLuhan
#57. Most new ideas are branded as heresy, until a time when, either
through science or technology, they can be proven as truth.
S.E. Meyer
#58. People whom live in a world dominated by science and technology are losing belief in God and turning away from religion. Science eliminated the traditions that formerly made living an art form including the rain celebration of spring and traditional harvest festivals.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#59. We targeted five industries for growth, industries where we have natural advantages in North Dakota: value-added agriculture, advanced manufacturing, technology-based businesses, energy and tourism. We worked very hard to grow all those businesses, and that's what's happening.
John Hoeven
#60. I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.
Jason Reitman
#61. Every generation's breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation's
Technology
Dan Brown
#62. The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.
Doris Kearns Goodwin
#63. Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.
Arnold Newman
#64. Lighting was very primitive. And still it was really the way to learn because sometimes some of the modern technology is so extreme and so compartmentalized that we lose sight of exactly what we're doing.
Haskell Wexler
#65. The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control
Martin Heidegger
#66. I love solving puzzles, I love finding my way around obstacles, and I love learning new things about technology.
Kevin Mitnick
#67. 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
#68. It is only in the realm of pure science that truth is an absolute criterion. When we deal with applied science, with technology - we deal with people. And when we deal with people, considerations other than truth enter the question.
Ayn Rand
#69. The technology of the future is made possible by the science of today.
Kambiz Mostofizadeh
#70. 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
#71. I love music, right? I can't say "I'm only going to listen to a physical medium," because there's a bunch of meaningful records that as a music fan I love that I would've never been able to access. So if I want to be part of something I have to get dragged along with technology.
Chuck Klosterman
#72. When technology is no longer novel, videos need more substance to impel viewers to watch, engage, and share, and we've already reached that point with camera drones.
Eric Cheng
#73. You can tell the true character of a man by how his dog and his kids react to him." "If you don't believe in God, you should believe in the technology that's going to make us immortal.
Timothy Ferriss
#74. An economy oriented toward production for market exchange provides the optimal conditions for long-lasting and ever-expanding productive capacity based on modern technology.
Peter L. Berger
#75. Technology doesn't have to be difficult to use or complicated. I feel technology is something that's there to make your life easier not more difficult.
Anousheh Ansari
#76. If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.
Nathan Myhrvold
#77. It is my belief that no matter how advanced man may become in science, technology, systems, and knowledge, he can never improve on the foundational precepts of marriage as the bedrock of social development.
Myles Munroe
#78. These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.
Sherry Turkle
#79. I am delighted to invest in JetSynthesys and join the Board as Non-Executive Chairman. JetSynthesys aims to become the platform of choice for digital content and experience. We have invested extensively in backend technology infrastructure that is best in class in the world.
Kris Gopalakrishnan
#81. Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.
Jerry Yang
#82. So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.
Kathryn Minshew
#83. Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates
#84. He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.
Dizzy Dean
#85. Zefr has all the ingredients for success - dynamic, inspiring management, the ability to marry technology and content, and a business model that can scale. I'm thrilled to be part of the team.
Ross Levinsohn
#86. The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.
Malcolm Turnbull
#87. You are ruled by change whether you like it or not, and io9's future path lies with joining a larger site that covers technology as well as science and science fiction.
Annalee Newitz
#88. Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Max Frisch
#89. James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.
Joe Morton
#90. Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign ... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.
Ted Bell
#91. I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.
Mike Shinoda
#92. You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.
Bill Joy
#93. Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#94. The ideas, the things I was saying about science and ghosts, and even that idea this afternoon about caring and technology - they are not my own. I haven't really had a new idea in years.
Robert M. Pirsig
#95. The technology is getting better. There will be a day when you'll be able to hear any music you want, anywhere you are, on demand, in a quality that is as good as when it was made. Things are moving in that direction.
Rick Rubin
#96. 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
#97. The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location.
John Sculley
#98. the mogul makes the medium: the imprint of the personality inevitably informs it, often no less than the technology underlying it. Turner
Tim Wu
#99. As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
Aaron Koblin
#100. I don't really care about interruptions. I accept technology, and I don't turn things off. I've found a peace with fragmentation and a harmony with switching gears quickly to other things.
Doug Aitken
