Technology Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally. That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.

  Gordon Brown

  Communication, Opportunity, Views

  "Wiring a web for global good". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2009.

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• One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential singularity in the history of the race beyond which human affairs, as we know them, could not continue.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Race, Giving, Progress

  "John von Neumann, 1903-1957". "Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society" 64, no.3, part 2, May, 1958.

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• The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

  Peter F. Hamilton

  Military, Abuse, Way

  Peter F. Hamilton (2012). “Great North Road”, p.785, Pan Macmillan

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• Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Mean, Amazing Things

  Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com

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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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• As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

  Nathan Deal

  Doctors, Physicians, Cost

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• Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.

  Nathan Deal

  Doe, Incentives, May

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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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• Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.

  Andy Grove

  Leadership, Today, Pressure

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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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• 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 had it in mind that I would start a company one day and it would really be successful. I have just been motivated by working on interesting technology

  Pierre Omidyar

  Successful, Interesting, Mind

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• Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.

  Sergey Brin

  Mean, Tools, May

  Guest lecture at University of California, Berkeley, October 05, 2005.

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• About half my work in education is U.S. political reform around school districts and charter schools, and creating more room for entrepreneurial organizations to develop. And about half on technology, which I look at as a global platform.

  Reed Hastings

  School, Organization, Creating

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

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Scene, Hard

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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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• 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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