Information Technology Quotes

• The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

  Steve Ballmer

  Learning, Creativity, Technology

  "The Astounding Impact of Innovative Technology in the Developing World" by Rev. Larry Hollon, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.

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• Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Business, Technology

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• Technology transforms people's lives. From mitigating poverty to simplifying processes, ending corruption to providing better services, Technology is omnipresent. It has become the single-most important instrument of human progress.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, People, Progress

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• The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Real, Math, Technology

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• To me technology used wisely is a catalyst to magically transforming the way we live.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Way, India

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• Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Technology, May, Information

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• What lies at the heart of every living thing is not a fire, not warm breath, not a 'spark of life.' It is information, words, instructions... If you want to understand life, don't think about vibrant, throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology.

  Richard Dawkins

  Lying, Heart, Technology

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Information technology has politicized the world's population.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Technology, Population, World

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Communication, Technology

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing in the Next Society”, p.275, Routledge

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• Technology is central to Development. It touches one and all, and is an important instrument of our national progress.

  Narendra Modi

  Technology, Progress, Important

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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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• What you earn depends on what you learn.

  William J. Clinton

  Fortune Cookie, Internet Technology, Private Sector

  "The Political Interest: Job Training Has To Be Reworked" by Michael Kramer, www.cnn.com.

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• Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

  Steve Jobs

  Smart, Technology, People

  "Steve Jobs in 1994: The Rolling Stone Interview". Interview with Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. January 17, 2011.

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• One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.

  Samuel Wilson

  Technology, Practice, Medicine

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• We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.

  Michael Oxley

  Home, Technology, Order

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• The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Two, Years

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• As information technology restructures the work situation, it abstracts thought from action.

  Shoshana Zuboff

  Technology, Information, Action

  Shoshana Zuboff (1988). “In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power”, New York : Basic Books

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• Technology for me is discover, learn, evolve and implement. It combines 3Ss- speed, simplicity and service. Technology is fast, technology is simple and technology is a brilliant way to serve people. It is also a great teacher. The more we learn about technology and the more we learn through technology, the better it is.

  Narendra Modi

  Teacher, Technology, Simple

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• Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Technology, Fire, Data Collection

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• Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operations of individual companies, ties together far-flung supply chains, and, increasingly, links businesses to the customers they serve. Hardly a dollar or a euro changes hands anymore without the aid of computer systems.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Technology, Hands, Ties

  "Why IT Doesn't Matter Anymore". hbswk.hbs.edu. June 09, 2003.

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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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• 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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• The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Technology, Marketing

  Bill Gates, Nathan Myhrvold, Peter Rinearson (1996). “The Road Ahead”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Technology empowers the less empowered. If there is a strong force that bring a change in the lives of those on the margins it is technology. It serves as a leveler and a springboard.

  Narendra Modi

  Strong, Technology, Empowering

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• Getting an education at MIT is like taking a drink from a fire hose.

  Jerome Wiesner

  Technology, Fire, Ict

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