Technology Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• 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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• To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Government, Innovation, Democracy

  "President Sebastian Pinera: I want a First World Chile by 2020" By Claire Brennan, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. Because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of the entity, and that restrictions would foul you up, lead to frustration which leads to violence, crime, mental breakdown, depending on what sort of makeup you have underneath. The further this age we're in now gets into technology and alienation, a lot of the points he's made seem to manifest themselves all down the line.

  Jimmy Page

  Frustration, Makeup, Misunderstood

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• I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.

  James Cameron

  Father, Engineering, Always Trying

  James Cameron, Brent Dunham (2012). “James Cameron: Interviews”, p.110, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places — as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.

  Satya Nadella

  Jobs, Mistake, Clouds

  "'Our industry does not respect tradition': CEO Satya Nadella's email to Microsoft employees" by Brad Chacos, www.pcworld.com. February 4, 2014.

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• Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.

  Eric Schmidt

  Moving, Government, Faster

  "Group calls for ban on spying technology sales" by Stewart Mitchell, www.alphr.com. May 25, 2011.

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• Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly

  Stewart Brand

  Fashion, Drama, Doe

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• Why should it be that just when technology is
  most encouraging of creativity, the law should be most restrictive?

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Law, Should

  Lawrence Lessig (2009). “Remix: Making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy”, p.107, A&C Black

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• Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Creativity, Opportunity, Giving

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity”, p.151, Penguin

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• What mankind can dream
  research and technology can achieve

  C. Walton Lillehei

  Dream, Research, Achieve

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• Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.

  Nam June Paik

  Strong, Jobs, War

  "Art People" by Douglas C. McGill. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• Countries that innovate first get the new jobs, developing an economic edge over the C-free laggards that end up having to later import the technology.

  William H. Calvin

  Country, Jobs, New Job

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• I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.

  Alan Perlis

  Learning, Thinking, People

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• It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

  Bruce Schneier

  Hygiene, Police, Someday

  Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

  David Gelernter

  Simplicity, Important, Defense

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• He (Branch Rickey) must think I went to the Massachesetts Constitution of Technology.

  Dizzy Dean

  Thinking, Branches, Pitching

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• You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting... because I do that on my website.

  Dave Davies

  Interesting, Leave Me Alone, Different

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• What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

  James M. Barrie

  Funny, Math, Science

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

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• When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution...Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

  Paul Virilio

  Negativity, Progress, Ships

  Paul Virilio, Philippe Petit, Sylvère Lotringer (1999). “Politics of the Very Worst”, Semiotext

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• The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Body, Amplify

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.

  Alexander Wang

  Sports, Growing Up, Looks

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• Am I nostalgic for film? … I mean, it’s had a good run, hasn’t it? You know, I’m not nostalgic for a technology. I’m nostalgic for the kind of films that used to be made that aren’t being made now.

  Roger Deakins

  Running, Mean, Kind

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