841 private quotes tagged technology

“Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.” — Mitchell Kapor

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“I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way.” — Lewis Thomas

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“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.” — Jean Arp

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“Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.” — Andy Rooney

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“Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?” — Al Boliska

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“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.” — Alfred North Whitehead

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“The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.” — Timothy Murphy

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“If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.” — John Perry Barlow

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“Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.” — Major Owens

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“We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.” — Ernest Istook

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“Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.” — John Doolittle

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“Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.” — Fred Allen

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“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” — B. F. Skinner

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“Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully.” — Graham Greene

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“Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.” — Theodor Adorno

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“It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.” — John Stuart Mill

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“About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.” — Reed Hastings

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“For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.” — Wernher von Braun

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“It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.” — Stephen Covey

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“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” — Omar N. Bradley

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“There are three roads to ruin women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.” — Georges Pompidou

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“Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.” — Alvin Toffler

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“People are stunned to hear that one company has data files on 185 million Americans.” — Ralph Nader

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“Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.” — Catherine Deneuve

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