841 private quotes tagged technology

“A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive - especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.” — Herman Kahn

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“I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.” — Irvine Welsh

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“When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.” — Rick Danko

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“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.” — Jim Cramer

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“Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.” — John Hutton

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“Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.” — Bob Barr

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“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.” — Jeffery Deaver

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“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.” — Jacques Ellul

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“What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.” — Richard Powers

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“My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.” — Richard Powers

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“Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.” — Bill Keller

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“Since fantasy isn't about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it's changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!” — Terri Windling

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“Today we're focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it's fair to say we're not out looking for a large one, but I think it's also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never.” — Sanjay Kumar

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“I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.” — Walter Jon Williams

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“Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.” — Ed Markey

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“We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.” — Ed Markey

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“Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.” — Gordon Brown

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“I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.” — Penny Marshall

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“So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Well, that's just not going to happen.” — Amy Klobuchar

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“I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?” — Robert M. Gates

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“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.” — Esther Dyson

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“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.” — Esther Dyson

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“The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.” — Glen Hansard

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“The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.” — Ralph Merkle

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“If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.” — Ralph Merkle

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