Technological Quotes - Page 9

• [X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).

  Walead Beshty

  Photography, Discovery, Desire

  4 Copy quote

• All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms.

  George Gilder

  Risk, Noise, Return

  4 Copy quote

• My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

  Avi Rubin

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  5 Copy quote

• At what point, 2,000 years on from the life of Jesus, do we need a refresher course? Another 2,000 years? Imagine 100,000 years’ time – would the story of Moses’ burning bush amaze a generation laden with unimaginable scientific and technological wonders? Here lies religion’s biggest quandary. While science is squeezing the life out of God, how is religion going to muster a counterattack from here?

  Trevor Treharne

  Jesus, Atheist, Lying

  4 Copy quote

• Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Technological Change

  4 Copy quote

• The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

  Leon Kass

  Thinking, Way, Ethics

  10 Copy quote

• The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source.

  El Lissitzky

  Men, Expression, Heaven

  47 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

• It has never happened in history that a nation that has won a war has been held accountable for atrocities committed in preparing for and waging that war. We intend to make this one different. What took place was the use of technological material to destroy a defenseless country. From 125,000 to 300,000 people were killed... We recognize our role in history is to bring the transgressors to justice.

  Ramsey Clark

  Country, War, Atrocities Committed

  4 Copy quote

• During the period of the Saturn-Apollo missions we were pilgrims in space, ranging from home in search of knowledge. Now we will become shepherds tending our technological flocks, but like the shepherds of old, we will keep our eyes fixed on the heavens.

  Jimmy Carter

  Home, Eye, Space

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The answer is navigation, manipulation, and implementation of more sophisticated intelligence. The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to "go to the kitchen" means something - navigation and understanding of the environment is a robot problem. Those are the technological frontiers of the robotics industry.

  Colin Angle

  Mean, Ideas, Understanding

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• That's exciting because to create new value in the robot space quickly, you need to stand on the shoulders of other technological developments.

  Colin Angle

  Technological Development, Space, Robots

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

  George Carlin

  Baseball, Football, Struggle

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.38, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars. In reading the notebooks of Robert Goddard, I am struck by how powerful his exploratory and scientific motivations were - and how influental speculative ideas, even erroneous ones, can be on the shaping of the future.

  Carl Sagan

  Notebook, Motivation, Powerful

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.

  Bruce Schneier

  Gaps, Greater, Security

  Bruce Schneier (2012). “Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive”, p.301, John Wiley & Sons

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The real challenge is not to get people to remember more, but to get them to understand better. We're just now beginning to be able to show what we can implement with technological tools. I think our interest at Apple is to be the provider of the instruments that will help educators and students create and entirely new kind of learning than what we have now.

  John Sculley

  Real, Thinking, Apples

  7 Copy quote

• What good is it to continue to focus on the exterior technological wonders before us - from indefinite life extension to computer/mind interlinks to unlimited zero-point energy to worm-hole intergalactic space travel - if all we carry with us is an egocentric red-mem Nazis and KKK? Do we really want Jack the Ripper living 400 years, zipping around the country in his hypercar, unleashing misogynistic nanorobots? Exterior developments are clearly a concern; how much more so are interior developments - or lack there of.

  Ken Wilber

  Country, Zero, Years

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.105, Shambhala Publications

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smoking, Innovation, Done

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.127, Vintage

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action.

  John O. Brennan

  Men, Giving, Revolution

  "Obama's Drone-Master". Interview with Reid Cherlin, www.gq.com. June 17, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'd like to build myself a rocket ship and launch myself into space. Still waiting on the technological advances required for a DIY space flight.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Space, Waiting, Diy

  6 Copy quote

• I was thinking how strange it is that water is one of the best, simplest things on this planet, and still with a simple glass of water you can neutralize so many of the greatest technological advances that we provide. Like with my blackberry, I can get in touch with so many people, but if I dip it in a small glass of water I'm completely disconnected.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Simple, Glasses

  4 Copy quote

• The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also offered important stimulation for thought about physics. Following a practical profession is a blessing for people of my type. Because the academic career puts a young person in a sort of compulsory situation to produce scientific papers in impressive quantity, a temptation to superficiality arises that only strong characters are able to resist.

  Albert Einstein

  Blessing, Thinking, Temptation

  "Einstein from 'B' to 'Z'". Book by John Stachel, p. 5, 2001.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Today we are living in an intellectual and technological paradise and a moral and social nightmare because the intellectual level of evolution, in its struggle to become free of the social level, has ignored the social level's role in keeping the biological level under control.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Struggle, Intellectual, Roles

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

  33 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is.

  Michael Sheen

  Kids, Acting, Bedroom

  "Exclusive Interview with Tron: Legacy stars Michael Sheen, James Frain, Beau Garrett and Bruce Boxleitner". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. November 29, 2010.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth or technological sophistication. I have learned that another way is possible.

  Helena Norberg-Hodge

  Land, Community, Way

  Helena Norberg-Hodge (2017). “Ancient Futures, 3rd Edition”, p.172, Chelsea Green Publishing

  11 Copy quote

  Show source