Quotes on Technology

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.

Author: Willie Aames

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.

Author: Frank Abagnale

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

Author: Gianni Agnelli

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Author: Charles Allen

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

Author: Eric Allman

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

Author: Eric Allman

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Author: Sidney Altman

The People's Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.

Author: Barbara Amiel

And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.

Author: Chris Anderson

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.

Author: Chris Anderson

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

Author: Tadao Ando

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

Author: Marc Andreessen

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

Author: Maya Angelou

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

Author: Francesca Annis

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Author: Neil Armstrong

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Author: Ibrahim Babangida

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

Author: Spencer Bachus

No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.

Author: David Baker

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

Author: Mitchell Baker

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

Author: Emily Balch

Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

Author: Emily Balch

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

Author: Steve Ballmer

I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.

Author: Jim Balsillie

I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

Author: David Baltimore

And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

Author: Toni Bambara

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.

Author: Iain Banks

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

Author: Javier Bardem

Well, another market is being created now out of Internet technology.

Author: Jim Barksdale

The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.

Author: Charles Bass

The Cox Report documents a systematic, well-planned effort by the Chinese military at the highest levels to target and acquire technology for military modernization.

Author: Charles Bass

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

Author: Charles Bass

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

Author: Charles Bass

While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.

Author: Carol Bellamy

That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Author: Paul Berg

The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.

Author: Sherwood Boehlert

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

Author: David Bohm

During the past few decades, modern technology, with radio, TV, air travel, and satellites, has woven a network of communication which puts each part of the world in to almost instant contact with all the other parts.

Author: David Bohm

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Author: Niels Bohr

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.

Author: David Boies

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

Author: Brigitte Boisselier

The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.

Author: Kit Bond

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Author: Daniel Boorstin

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.

Author: Norman Borlaug

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

Author: Omar Bradley

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Author: Stewart Brand

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

Author: Frederick Brooks, Jr.

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

Author: Bob Brown

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

Author: Jerry Brown

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

Author: Gavin Bryars

As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.

Author: Steve Buyer

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

Author: John Callahan

We've complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.

Author: Stephen Cambone

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

Author: Stephen Carter

Because I do think - not just in building AOL - but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.

Author: Steve Case

Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.

Author: Brian Celio

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Department's problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didn't want to be confined to a single network technology.

Author: Vinton Cerf

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Author: Jackie Chan

I think that's the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there's not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.

Author: Stockard Channing

We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

Author: Tracy Chapman

We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.

Author: Michael Chertoff

Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.

Author: Jay Chiat

But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.

Author: Jay Chiat

Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.

Author: Jay Chiat

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

Author: Tom Clancy

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union; it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

Author: Tom Clancy

The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that.

Author: Tom Clancy

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

Author: Tom Clancy

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Author: Arthur Clarke

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

Author: William Clinton

I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.

Author: Bram Cohen

Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.

Author: Bram Cohen

The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.

Author: James Collins

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

Author: Barry Commoner

What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.

Author: Barry Commoner

Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

Author: Scott Cook

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

Author: Scott Cook

Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.

Author: Jim Costa

Technology favors horrible people.

Author: Doug Coupland

It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.

Author: Stephen Covey

I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information.

Author: Jim Cramer

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down.

Author: Michael Crichton

Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.

Author: Steve Crocker

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.

Author: David Cronenberg

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

Author: David Cronenberg

I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that's the message we tried to send out - there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing.

Author: Norm Crosby

Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

Author: Richard Curtis

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

Author: James Daly

When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.

Author: Rick Danko

I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don't change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.

Author: Paula Danziger

You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.

Author: Dave Davies

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

Author: Richard Dawkins

As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

Author: Nathan Deal

Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

Author: Nathan Deal

The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.

Author: Jeffery Deaver

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Author: Don DeLillo

In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.

Author: Don DeLillo

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

Author: David Deutsch

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

Author: Jared Diamond

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Author: Jared Diamond

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.

Author: Whitfield Diffie

From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why - with the existing technology - we couldn't do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened.

Author: Thomas Dolby

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

Author: Heather Donahue

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

Author: Heather Donahue

Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.

Author: Richard Dooling

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

Author: K. Drexler

Any powerful technology can be abused.

Author: K. Drexler

Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.

Author: K. Drexler

The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

Author: Peter Drucker

If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?

Author: Matt Drudge

Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.

Author: John Dykstra

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.

Author: Esther Dyson

Don't leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you're doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don't think about technology first.

Author: Esther Dyson

I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.

Author: John Eaton

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

Author: Bernie Ebbers

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

Author: Albert Einstein

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

Author: Michael Eisner

Well, first of all, we now have everybody with the exception of India, Pakistan, and Israel, and I don't think these three countries are going to join by simply providing them an incentive, in terms of technology.

Author: Mohamed ElBaradei

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.

Author: Joe Elliott

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.

Author: Jacques Ellul

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

Author: Robert Englund

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.

Author: Brian Eno

Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Author: Richard Ernst

There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.

Author: Peter Erskine

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

Author: Laurent Fabius

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

Author: Laurent Fabius

Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.

Author: Carly Fiorina

As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.

Author: Mike Fitzpatrick

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.

Author: John Frankenheimer

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

Author: Brendan Fraser

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

Author: Thomas Friedman

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

Author: R. Fuller

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

Author: Dennis Gabor

Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.

Author: Marc Garneau

Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.

Author: Jesse Garrett

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

Author: Bill Gates

If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.

Author: Bill Gates

This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.

Author: Lou Gerstner

The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.

Author: Dan Glickman

Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.

Author: Virgil Goode

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

Author: Mike Gordon

As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

Author: Tipper Gore

Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.

Author: Bob Graham

Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.

Author: Lou Gramm

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.

Author: Hugh Grant

Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.

Author: Daniel Greenberg

So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.

Author: Daniel Greenberg

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.

Author: Bill Griffith

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

Author: Tom Hanks

Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.

Author: Daryl Hannah

CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.

Author: John Harrison