841 private quotes tagged technology

“The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.” — John Lasseter

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“Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.” — Marissa Mayer

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“In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world.” — Lucy Powell

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“Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.” — Freeman Dyson

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“In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.” — Tony Kushner

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“I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.” — Gary Numan

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“Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.” — Robert Rodriguez

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“In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.” — Dean Kamen

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“New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that.” — Dean Kamen

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“I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.” — J. J. Abrams

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“For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.” — Tom Peters

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“But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.” — Christopher Nolan

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“For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.” — Christopher Nolan

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“I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.” — Jodi Picoult

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“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.” — Whitfield Diffie

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“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.” — Tadao Ando

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“Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.” — Jaron Lanier

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“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.” — Steve Ballmer

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“Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.” — Andrew Weil

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“World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.” — Barry Commoner

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“We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.” — Eric Alterman

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“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.” — Tom Clancy

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“What the public needs to understand is that these new technologies, especially in recombinant DNA technology, allow scientists to bypass biological boundaries altogether.” — Jeremy Rifkin

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“People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.” — Jaron Lanier

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“We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.” — Lawrence Clark Powell

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