Technology Quotes - Page 17

• I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving into the past and reaching into the future simultaneously.

  Betye Saar

  Art, Memories, Future

  Betye Saar, James Christen Steward, University of Michigan. Museum of Art, Norton Museum of Art (2005). “Betye Saar: extending the frozen moment”, University of California Press

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• The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

  Mark Weiser

  Life, Creativity, Profound

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• The use of market values and technology as a social barometer has devalued the worth of individuals, rendered irrelevant the quality of their lives, and stunted their creativity.

  Sulak Sivaraksa

  Creativity, Quality, Use

  Sulak Sivaraksa (1992). “Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society”

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• There have been advances in the technology of beauty that I think are great. & you know what? Use it.

  Ellen Barkin

  Thinking, Use, Knows

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• Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere speeding up, however much our lifestyles and technologies have accelerated the rate at which we attempt to do things. It’s more of a diminishment of anything that isn’t happening right now—and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Real, Our Society, Moments

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• Digiphrenia”—the way our media and technologies encourage us to be in more than one place at the same time.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Media, Way

  Douglas Rushkoff (2013). “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, p.8, Penguin

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• The two great aims of industrialism — replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy — seem close to fulfillment.

  Wendell Berry

  Hands, Two, Concentration Of Wealth

  Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays”, p.22, Counterpoint Press

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• Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity, and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.

  Bob Ney

  Independent, Opportunity, Equality

  "U.S. House Passes Braille Commemorative Coin Bill". Bob Ney's remarks before the vote on H.R. 2872, nfb.org. February 28, 2006.

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• Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.

  John Doolittle

  Medicine, Long, Development

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• Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style

  Jurgen Habermas

  Art, War, Afterlife

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• Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth

  Martin Heidegger

  Mean, Essence, Giving

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• The question concerning technology is the question concerning the constellation in which revealing and concealing, in which the coming to presence of truth, comes to pass

  Martin Heidegger

  Revealing, Constellations, Concealing

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• The will to mastery becomes all the more urgent the more technology threatens to slip from human control

  Martin Heidegger

  Mastery, Humans, Slips

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• The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras.

  Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

  Past, Reality, Maintenance

  László Moholy-Nagy, Renate Heyne, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Molderings (2009). “Moholy-Nagy: the photograms : catalogue raisonné”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• Today's meters are little computers.

  Ros Hubbard

  Littles, Today, Computer

  "Watch The Parking Meters". www.wired.com. September 4, 2005.

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• Your technology is the inner practice of meditation, which will stimulate the link between your brain and ignite your innate desire to know your True Self. Trust yourself in a deeper way & reap the rewards!

  Michael Beckwith

  Inspirational, Practice, Self

  FaceBook post by Michael Bernard Beckwith from Jan 22, 2013

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• Before the Internet, if someone disappeared, it meant you should go looking for them. Now it means they got a life.

  Ashish Chauhan

  Witty, Mean, Internet

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• Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Powerful, Team Building

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons

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• We have a constantly-changing portfolio of social media experiments. The first time we tried applying social technologies in a customer service department it became the most productive department in the company.

  Sandy Carter

  Media, Firsts, Portfolios

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• DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Science, Dna, Firsts

  "Ecodynamics: A New Theory Of Societal Evolution". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1978.

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• We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

  Monica Edwards

  Age, Stuff, Electronic Devices

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• It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.

  Janet Napolitano

  Tsa, Would Be, Environment

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• As members of the Lord's Church, we must take missionary work more seriously. The Lord's commission to 'preach the gospel to every creature' (Mark 16:15) will never change in our dispensation. We have been greatly blessed with the material means, the technology, and an inspired message to bring the gospel to all men. More is expected of us than any previous generation. Where 'much is given much is required.' (D&C 82:3.)

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Blessed, Mean, Men

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• Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.

  Aaron Swartz

  Light, World, Down And

  "Stars Rise at Startup Summer Camp" by Ryan Singel, www.wired.com. September 13, 2005.

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• With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one must keep up, I maintain, nonetheless, that the real creative power is in the mind and heart of the composer.

  Henry Mancini

  Real, Heart, Media

  Henry Mancini (2001). “Did They Mention the Music?: The Autobiography of Henry Mancini”, p.185, Cooper Square Press

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