Technological Advancement Quotes

• Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

  Aldous Huxley

  Mean, Technology, Progress

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.9, Transaction Publishers

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• The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

  Adam Savage

  Lying, Voice, Important

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• The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Thinking, Advancement, Way

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1966-1967): Perennial Questions”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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• Today with technological advancement, with the Internet, with planes, with the rate at which we travel - even if you wanted, you cannot hide from the rest of the world. And whether you like it or not, you are part of this global marketplace, and so you might as well understand it, you might as well embrace it, because even if you hide, it will find you.

  Wangari Maathai

  Advancement, World, Might

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.

  Roger Zelazny

  Hurt, Advancement, Technological

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• Science is my JAM. I am very excited to see where science and technological advancements will take us in the next few decades.

  Benjamin Stone

  Advancement, Jam, Next

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• Our colonizers have taught us to believe that our health has improved because of Western medicine, Western foods, and Western technology. In a society that values progress, our colonizers taught us that conditions in the world are perpetually improving, that with each new technological advancement, each new discovery, each new way to utilize resources, each new way to alter the environment, that the world is getting better, that it is advancing. These are all lies.

  Waziyatawin

  Lying, Believe, Technology

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• For so long, companies were run using a command-and-control, 'top down' hierarchical method that involved dictating down the command chain and maintaining order. What I've witnessed in our time is evolving democratization, a shift to a demand economy accelerated by technological advancements like social media.

  Kevin Allen

  Running, Order, Top Down

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind.

  Kevin Spacey

  Advancement, Shifting, Sand

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• What seems extraordinary is that the richest countries in the world, in terms of economic output, are the ones where we work hardest. You would have thought that the end of all this innovation, technological advancement, and financial wizardry should be to create less work, not more of it.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Country, Hard Work, Innovation

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving.

  Garth Stein

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• I love what I do and I love being part of the storytelling process. And I love the technological advancements. It was the thing that kept me going on every 20-hour day, 7 days a week. You have to love it to do that.

  Christine Bieselin Clark

  Love Is, Advancement, Week

  "Exclusive interview with Tron: Legacy costume designer Christine Bieselin Clark". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. November 30, 2010.

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• I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.

  T Bone Burnett

  Art, Musician, Advancement

  Source: collider.com

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• Eighteen fifty-eight was a year of great technological advancement in the West. That was the year when Queen Victoria was able, for the first time, to communicate with President Buchanan, through the Transatlantic Telegraphic Cable. And they were the first to ‘Twitter’ transatlantically.

  Hans Rosling

  Queens, Eight, Years

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