841 private quotes tagged technology

“I want people to use Perl. I want to be a positive ingredient of the world and make my American history. So, whatever it takes to give away my software and get it used, that's great.” — Larry Wall

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“Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And 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.” — Amy Klobuchar

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“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.” — David Deutsch

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“Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.” — Jeff Bridges

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“The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.” — Alan Kay

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“Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.” — Daniel H. Wilson

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“We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.” — Daniel H. Wilson

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“I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.” — Norman Spinrad

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

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“The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.” — David Bowie

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“It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life.” — Godfrey Reggio

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“And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.” — Toni Cade Bambara

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“Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.” — John Charles Polanyi

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“The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.” — John Charles Polanyi

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“I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.” — James Cameron

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“Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.” — Arthur M. Schlesinger

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“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” — Richard P. Feynman

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“You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.” — Wangari Maathai

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“The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.” — Thomas Sowell

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“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.” — David Bohm

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“Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.” — Steve Martin

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“Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about opting out of this world, but about enabling us to live more intensely within it.” — Karen Armstrong

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“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.” — J. G. Ballard

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“I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.” — Sarah Zettel

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“We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It's also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.” — Roy Romer

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