841 private quotes tagged technology

“If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.” — Jaron Lanier

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“I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect.” — Jaron Lanier

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“It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.” — Jaron Lanier

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“The most I ever spent on technology is building a studio - I built one at home in Los Angeles. I can't tell you how much exactly, but the whole process is very expensive.” — John Legend

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“The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.” — John Legend

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“I love the modern technology now.” — Ringo Starr

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“We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.” — Willie Aames

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“The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.” — Andrew Brown

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“I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.” — Michael K. Powell

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“We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.” — Reed Hundt

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“With all the technology we're inventing and what they're coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. It's scary, but in the same sense it's also very exciting.” — Brittany Murphy

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“We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.” — Thomas Friedman

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“I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.” — Robert Rodriguez

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“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

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“Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.” — David Frum

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“I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.” — Robert Smith

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“With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.” — Jay Inslee

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“Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are.” — Werner Herzog

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“What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.” — Frank Abagnale

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“The creative destruction that social media is currently unleashing will change more than technology or the leader board of the Fortune 100. It is driving a qualitative shift in the nature of relationships between brands and their customers.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“Performance capture is a technology, not a genre it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.” — Andy Serkis

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

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“Globalization was a deep trend pushed by technology and right ideas, as much as anything else.” — Jeffrey Sachs

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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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“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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