Technology Quotes - Page 20

• 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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• 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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• A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.

  Peter Thiel

  Keys, Order, Apples

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• The only thing that gives [new technology] purpose is the kind of creative content we all produce.

  Michael Eisner

  Giving, Creative, Purpose

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• We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

  Michael Eisner

  Technological Change, Hollywood, Entertainment

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• Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.

  Macklemore

  Sampling, Texture, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had.

  James Gleick

  Time, Efficiency, Lost

  James Gleick (2000). “Faster: The Acceleration of Just about Everything”, Vintage

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• Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology for rewiring other people's minds. I'm talking about your language.

  Mark Pagel

  Powerful, Talking, People

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• It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.

  David Jeremiah

  Prayer, Believe, Intellectual

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• Talent is what drives technology companies.

  Marissa Mayer

  Talent, Company

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• My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.

  Scott McCloud

  Dad, Thinking, Views

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 23, 2000.

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• I believe that if something like a political life is to remain for us in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship. Therefore my task is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships.

  Ivan Illich

  Believe, Self, Political

  "Land of Found Friends". "We the People" radio program with Jerry Brown on March 22, 1996. Whole Earth Review, No. 90, www.aislingmagazine.com. Summer 1997.

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• Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

  Langdon Winner

  Powerful, Acting, Aids

  Langdon Winner (2010). “The Whale and the Reactor: A Search for Limits in an Age of High Technology”, p.6, University of Chicago Press

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• I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

  Francois-Henri Pinault

  Way, Computer, User Interface

  "Meet Le Geek: Francois-Henri Pinault". Interview with Joe Einhorn, techcrunch.com. August 5, 2012.

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• These days there's so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.

  Mick Taylor

  Cds, Video, Way

  "The Artist Shop IRC Chat with Mick Taylor". www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.

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• Technology is not a panacea. I refuse to work on technology to track users, analyze usage patterns, watermark information, censor, detect drug use, or eavesdrop. I am not naive enough to think any of those technologies could enable a 'compromise'.

  Bram Cohen

  Thinking, Drug Use, Track

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• I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.

  Daniel Ek

  Growing Up, Passion, Two

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• Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just as profound as the pyramids.

  James Turrell

  Writing, Pyramids, Profound

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• I absolutely hate technology, and I'm computer illiterate, and I never use any labor-saving devices although I'm not convinced that a computer is a labor-saving device.

  Chuck Close

  Hate, Use, Saving

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• In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Engineering, Faculty, Electrical

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• The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Study, Tradition, Faculty

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• The fact that cultures are failing all over the world means that they don't know how to operate a society to make it work.  Politicians have no real knowledge of technology; therefore, they are not capable of increasing food production, designing transportations systems that are safe…  They have no knowledge in that area.  Therefore it's senseless to talk to them about anything of significance.

  Jacque Fresco

  Real, Mean, Design

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• Every action and decision we take – or don’t – ripples into the future.  For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

  Jacque Fresco

  Decision, Firsts, Action

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• In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

  Paul Farmer

  Discovery, Humanity, Age

  Paul Farmer (2004). “Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor”, p.144, Univ of California Press

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