Technologist's Quotes

#1. 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

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

Michael Lewis

#3. 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

#4. The first kind of problems are the ones life sends upon you to test you, to make you humble or make you longsuffering, or whatever you may need.

John C. Wright

#5. 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

#6. It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

Ben Bernanke

#7. The man who never makes a mistake must get tired of doing nothing.

Will Rogers

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Maynard Webb

#11. It takes a Mother's Patience, to bring a child up right, And her Courage and her Cheerfulness to make a dark day bright.

Helen Steiner Rice

#12. 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

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

Max Frisch

#14. 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

#15. I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

Carly Simon

#16. We try to evaluate how much value an employee is creating here and reward them accordingly.

Charles Koch

#17. Make prayer a top priority rather than a last resort.

Mary Jane Remole

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. The fairy tale of heaven, the promise that whatever shit happens, your story gets a happy ending. The Bible, boiled down: Once upon a time I helped some poor suckers out and someday, maybe, if you're good, I'll help you too,

John Joseph Adams

#22. Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts.

Joel Osteen

#23. 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

#24. 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

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

Barry Commoner

#26. 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

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

Pierre Omidyar

#28. 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

#29. 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