Technology Quotes - Page 19

• The music technology scene is changing so fast its hard to keep up.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Scene, Hard

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• The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs.

  Alan Kay

  Ocean, Men, Thinking

  Interview with Andrew Binstock, www.drdobbs.com. July 10, 2012.

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• Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones get made and unmade.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Connections, World, Matter

  "You are cyborg" by Hari Kunzru, www.wired.com. February 01, 1997.

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• And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Might, Asks

  Toni Cade Bambara (2011). “The Salt Eaters”, p.127, Vintage

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• As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.

  Steve Buyer

  Phones, Cells, Data

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• In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

  Burton Richter

  Years, Interesting, Massachusetts

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• The technology we need most badly is the technology of community, the knowledge about how to cooperate to get things done.

  Bill McKibben

  Peace, Community, Needs

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• Compassion is a spiritual technology.

  Krista Tippett

  Spiritual, Peace, Compassion

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• Like gold, U.S. dollars have value only to the extent that they are strictly limited in supply. But the U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost. By increasing the number of U.S. dollars in circulation, or even by credibly threatening to do so, the U.S. government can also reduce the value of a dollar in terms of goods and services, which is equivalent to raising the prices in dollars of those goods and services.

  Ben Bernanke

  Government, Numbers, Wish

  "Bernanke Goes Nuclear" by John Standerfer, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2009.

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• Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.

  Ed Royce

  Issues, Energy, Debate

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• Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.

  Joseph Needham

  Roots, China, Science And Technology

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• I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies.

  Paul Krugman

  Thinking, Long, People

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• Rogue states never turn out to be quite the pariahs they are deemed. They are only able to cause, or at least threaten to cause, mayhem because they enjoy the covert support - usually by means of technology transfers - of one or more major powers within the charmed circle of global 'good guys'.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mean, Circles, Guy

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• But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology.

  Max Born

  Men, Scientific Method, Affair

  "My Life & My Views". Book by Max Born, 1968.

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• Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every time we consider the creation of intelligences greater than our own. When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity - a place where extrapolation breaks down and new models must be applied - and the world will pass beyond our understanding.

  Vernor Vinge

  Understanding, World, Down And

  Vernor Vinge (2002). “The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge”, p.44, Macmillan

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• I will continue my activities related to education in one way or another. I certainly would have at the top my agenda, with respect to education, the need to do much better with modern educational technology.

  Major Owens

  Educational, Needs, Agendas

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• I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.

  Major Owens

  Years, Two, Effort

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• I do not think we are ever going to be able to, for a long time, get the kind of quality of school personnel that we need in our schools, especially in the areas of science and math. One of the answers to that problem is to use more educational technology.

  Major Owens

  Educational, School, Math

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• Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

  Ben Marcus

  Mouths, Safe, Way

  Ben Marcus (2007). “Notable American Women: A Novel”, p.55, Vintage

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• A unitary urbanism — the synthesis of art and technology that we call for — must be constructed according to certain new values of life, values which now need to be distinguished and disseminated.

  Gil J Wolman

  Art, Synthesis, Needs

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• There are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Fire, Village, Burned

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• A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention

  Dean Kamen

  Ideas, Office, Together

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• My own answer to the contrarian question is that most people think the future of the world will be defined by globalization, but the truth is that technology matters more.

  Peter Thiel

  Thinking, People, Answers

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.9, Crown Business

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• Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,’ and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun.’

  Peter Thiel

  Running, Fun, Islamic

  "No Death, No Taxes". Interview with George Packer, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2011.

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• In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called ‘social democracy.’ . . . We are in a deadly race between politics and technology. . . . The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.

  Peter Thiel

  Fate, Our World, Race

  "The Education of a Libertarian". www.cato-unbound.org. April 13, 2009.

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