Technology - Quotes & Sayings

I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.

Vint Cerf

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Andy Grove

Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.

Andy Grove

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

Tim Berners-Lee

This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn't have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves - technology and biscuits.

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

Orrin Hatch

Technology is best when it brings people together.

Matt Mullenweg

Westerns give people a chance to see wide-open spaces and life before technology took over.

Bill Pullman

People assume that the smarter your home, the better your life, but in reality, technology so often gets in the way of leading a good life.

Joe Gebbia

American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn't have to hang up my diapers. And now women have paper diapers and all sorts of conveniences in the home. And it is the man and the technology that has made the home such a pleasant place for women to be.

Phyllis Schlafly

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

Marsha Blackburn

Business models change. As technology processes, business models change.

Marsha Blackburn

Our large size, capital base, robust funding profile, extensive distribution network, diversified portfolio, presence across the financial services sector, and leadership in technology position us very well to leverage the growth opportunities across the economy.

Chanda Kochhar

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

Jaron Lanier

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

Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.

Andrew Weil

Yes, I play computer games. I think you've got to embrace the latest technology. For someone to dismiss games as not important would be the same as saying the Internet is not important.

Bruce Feirstein

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.

Karen Armstrong

Technological innovation is bringing digital solutions to sectors that have previously lacked access to technology, including the non-profit community.

Tae Yoo

As more technology professionals devote more time to mentoring, they will sow the seeds of a future workforce capable of using Internet connections to change the world.

Tae Yoo

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

Javier Bardem

I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in.

Donald Norman

Technology is just so fast. As convenient as it is, it's stressing a lot of us out. It's just too much, too quick. And I'm interested in that conversation.

Carrie-Anne Moss

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

Laura Esquivel

Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.

Nolan Bushnell

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

Thomas Bangalter

If you look at it from just a pure economic basis, technology is replacing all of the jobs robots can do, and machinery is replacing the jobs that humans once held. If we don't train our children to imagine, to create, they're going to be unemployable.

Erwin McManus

Technology is transforming how we hold ourselves, contorting our bodies into what the New Zealand physiotherapist Steve August calls the 'iHunch.' I've also heard people call it 'text neck,' and in my work, I sometimes refer to it as 'iPosture.'

Amy Cuddy

I believe technology serves us best when it gives us more time to do things that are uniquely human. This includes activities that are enjoyable, creative, and productive.

Rajeev Suri

The perfect example of Darwinism is what technology has done to businesses.

Charlie Munger

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

Matt Blunt

I think we all realize the consumer has taken control, and they're not giving it back. So as every new technology comes forward, we have to figure out how to integrate it.

Anne Sweeney

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

John Perry Barlow

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

James Surowiecki

We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.

Tadashi Yanai

I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you and I are analog creatures. We have to take 'oohs and aahs' and convert them to 0s and 1s and then convert them back to 'oohs and aahs.' Narratives that work in social networks are the exchange of stories that are told well.

Peter Guber

Technology has to be invented or adopted.

Jared Diamond

There is a downside to affordable technology, and that's mediocrity. I mean, just 'cause you can afford it don't mean you can do it.

Melvin Van Peebles

Supporting American technology companies is one of the most patriotic things you can do - the technology industry is the reason our country has such a high-standard of living and why we can afford to spread the democracy virus around the globe.

Jason Calacanis

I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.

Megan Smith

Something most people don't know about me is that I'm obsessed with technology. With that in mind, the 'material' I'd most like to experiment is the material that has yet to be invented.

Pat McGrath

We need to develop clean, affordable, and reliable energy sources, and frankly, we need to license that technology to the rest of the world.

Elizabeth Esty

Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

Mary Pickford

Technology has aided in serious advancements so that HIV detection tests now have near-perfect results. And those tests can detect HIV in the blood an average of nine to 11 days post-infection.

Mike Quigley

Essentially, every technology you have ever heard of, where electrons move from here to there, has the potential to be revolutionized by the availability of molecular wires made up of carbon. Organic chemists will start building devices. Molecular electronics could become reality.

Richard Smalley

My dad is an electrical engineer. So he was always very focused on, you know, teaching his daughters about, you know, science, math, technology. None of us actually became engineers for our careers, but I always had that exposure when I was young, and I just loved playing computer games.

Kristen Soltis Anderson

It is a free world. It is a dynamic of our new day and age: technology is everywhere.

Oscar Munoz

My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

Nathan Myhrvold

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

Katherine Paterson

So many people for so many years have promoted technology as the answer to everything. The economy wasn't growing: technology. Poor people: technology. Illness: technology. As if, somehow, technology in and of itself would be a solution. Yet machine values are not always human values.

Ellen Ullman