Best Technology Quotes

• Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

  Tom Hanks

  Technology, Stories, Movie Making

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• Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

  Robert Watson-Watt

  Time, Science, Technology

  "The Lost Art of the Great Speech: How to Write It, How to Deliver It" by Richard Dowis, (p. 150), 2000.

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• Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Technology, Possible And Impossible

  Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident appendix (1986)

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• It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Witty, Humorous

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  I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

  Steve Jobs

  Graduation, Heart, Stanford University

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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  Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

  Steve Jobs

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• The best way to predict the future is to create it.

  Peter Drucker

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Fun, Knowledge, Science

  "Working Profile; Helping the Library of Congress Fulfill Its Mission" by Barbara Gamarekian, archive.nytimes.com. July 8, 1983.

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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

  Military, Technology, Advancement

  "Collected Writings, Volume 1" by Omar N. Bradley, 1967.

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• We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Technology, Talking, Rivers

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Technology, Suffering, Progress

  1921 Speech, 13 Oct.

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• I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Technology, Spinning, Wheels

  1921 Speech, 13 Oct.

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• Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

  Stewart Brand

  Technology, Service Culture, Over You

  The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT ch. 1 (1987)

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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

  Science, Technology, Thinking

  Introduction to the French edition of "Crash", 1974.

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• The guy with the competitive advantage is the one with the best technology.

  Walter Wriston

  Technology, Guy, Advantage

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• The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.

  Aaron Levie

  Technology, Enough, Standing Out

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2012

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• I want to win a championship with the best drivers, the best engineers and the best technology. As drivers, we want to make sure that we are involved in a championship with such a standard.

  Sam Bird

  Winning, Technology, Want

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• I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.

  Chip Kidd

  Book, Technology, Sound

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• The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have - great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

  Ben Bernanke

  Technology, People, Entrepreneur

  "60 minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 15, 2009.

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• Life is the ultimate technology. Machine technology is a temporary surrogate for life technology. As we improve our machines they will become more organic, more biological, more like life, because life is the best technology for living.

  Kevin Kelly

  Technology, Machines, Life Is

  Kevin Kelly (1995). “Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World”, p.165, Basic Books

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