841 private quotes tagged technology

“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.”— K. Eric Drexler

“But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.”— K. Eric 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.”— K. Eric Drexler

“I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.”— Arne Duncan

“Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.”— James Harden

“When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted.”— Hilary Rosen

“On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology but to the listener, it wouldn't necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.”— Jamie Zawinski

“Life is about family and technology.”— Mark Goddard

“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.”— Stewart Brand

“Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.”— Nina Fedoroff

“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.”— Stephen Cambone

“Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a girl on her laptop in Texas can see photos and cell phone video in real time that a young college student has posted of a rally he's at in Iran.”— Rosalind Wiseman

“Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.”— Serge Haroche

“We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.”— Ellen Ochoa

“In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It's the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind.”— Maurice Saatchi

“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.”— Laurent Fabius

“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.”— Laurent Fabius

“We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.”— Freeman Thomas

“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.”— Eric Allman

“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.”— John Eaton

“Agency by agency, we frequently have lost a bit of ground, at least to inflation-but had it not been for the efforts we've made to educate people about the importance of science, technology and advanced education, those predictions very well might have come true.”— Charles Vest

“For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.”— Charles Vest

“They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.”— John Mica

“There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.”— Jackie Stewart

“Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.”— Aleksander Kwasniewski