Technologist Quotes

#1. I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.

Nolan Bushnell

#2. I am excited to join the Workday Board at an exciting time in the company's growth and look forward to leveraging my past experience as a technologist and entrepreneur to provide advice as they continue to look at new areas of growth.

Jerry Yang

#3. I always knew I wanted to be a technologist, so I went to Duke and got a degree in computer science and electrical engineering. Really, I thought my goal in life was to be an inventor, a problem solver, so I thought I needed a Ph.D. to be good at inventions, but it turns out that you don't.

Aaron Patzer

#4. I took the standpoint that the profession of technologist, a man who masters matter, is a masculine profession, if not the only masculine profession there is.

Max Frisch

#5. Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. As such, I'm not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made.

Linus Torvalds

#6. As a technologist, I'm obsessed with searching for the next killer app.

Maynard Webb

#7. Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance, ... the technologist's worldlessness ... My mistake lay in the factthat we technologists try to live without death.

Max Frisch

#8. If you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code. No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher.

Clifford Stoll

#9. I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

Max Frisch

#10. If you think about brewing, it is biotechnology. And I would say that I was a technologist at heart. So whether I ... fermented beer or whether I fermented enzymes, the base technology was the same.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#11. You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

Marissa Mayer

#12. There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.

Brian Andreas

#13. I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.

Biz Stone

#14. The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

Max Frisch

#15. People say to me that I'm a role model in technology, but it makes me laugh, because I'm not a technologist, I'm a journalist - that's my background.

Sue Gardner

#16. The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Barry Commoner

#17. My father, an entrepreneur but hardly a technologist, was looking to buy a computer to 'automate' our family business. In 1981, he characteristically dove head first into computing and bought an Osborne I.

Steven Sinofsky

#18. I'm a technologist by origin and by training, but I'm focused on philanthropy.

Pierre Omidyar

#19. Work should be personal. For all of us. Not just for the artist and entrepreneur. Work should have meaning for the accountant, the construction worker, the technologist, the manager and the clerk.

Howard Schultz

#20. The technologist's tendency to commit all his resources to new technology,

Michael Lewis

#21. Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable
the rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.

Rodney Stark

#22. You don't feel honest on a date, I guess. You don't really get to learn about anyone. You're kind of being polite and you can ask the questions, it's just not a great time for me.

Vince Vaughn

#23. Time to sit down," Fred told Harry, "Or we're going to get run over by the bride.

J.K. Rowling

#24. Somewhere in the existing software there was a bug, a potentially lethal flaw. Nothing less than the unselfing of the self would do. If he could cleanse the whole machine, then maybe the bug, too, would end up in the trash. After that, he could perhaps begin to construct a new man.

Salman Rushdie

#25. Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.

Ernest Hemingway,

#26. Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
Maun British wrangs be righted.

Robert Burns

#27. The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

Tom Verlaine

#28. People who are prone to guilt tend to work harder and perform better than people who are not guilt-prone, and are perceived to be more capable leaders.

David D. Burns

#29. She would hear the verbal balancing act: urgency mixed like gin amid the tonic of consideration.

Chris Bohjalian

#30. You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.

Mallory Ortberg

#31. This isn't submission." "Isn't it?" "No." He looks up at me, tired as well, but he's never looked more beautiful to me than in this moment, strong and open and unafraid like when he surrenders his body. "It's love.

Alexis Hall

#32. We can sit by and hope the government will help, but they won't. If I can help support one or two children and another family supports one or two, then between us we can help them all.

Malala Yousafzai

#33. For, however old, plain, humble, desolate, afflicted we may be, so long as our hearts preserve the feeblest spark of life, they preserve also, shivering near that pale ember, a starved, ghostly longing for appreciation and affection.

Charlotte Bronte