Technology Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

  Richard Ernst

  School, Zurich, Expectations

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• Compassion is a spiritual technology.

  Krista Tippett

  Spiritual, Peace, Compassion

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• Humanity needs this technology as much as it needs all other technologies that have now connected us and set before us the terrifying and wondrous possibility of actually becoming one human race.

  Krista Tippett

  Peace, Becoming One, Race

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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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• Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

  Ken Rockwell

  Photography, Observation, Application

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• Improvements in lending practices driven by information technology have enabled lenders to reach out to households with previously unrecognized borrowing capacities.

  Alan Greenspan

  Practice, Information, Improvement

  "Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan". www.federalreserve.gov. October 19, 2004.

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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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• If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional armed forces, like those of the UK. And they can acquire more advanced technology. Indeed, unless that happens soon the gulf between the European and US capabilities will yawn so wide that it will not be possible to share the same battlefield. Alas, I do not think that sharing battlefields with our American friends - but rather disputing global primacy with them - is what European defence plans are truly about.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Thinking, Wish, Enough

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• Hundreds of years ago, Indian artists created visual images of dancing Shivas in a beautiful series of bronzes. In our time, physicists have used the most advanced technology to portray the patterns of the cosmic dance. The metaphor of the cosmic dance thus unifies ancient mythology, religious art and modern physics.

  Fritjof Capra

  Beautiful, Religious, Art

  "The Tao of Physics". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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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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• Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools.

  Major Owens

  School, Challenges, Important

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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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• 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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• Whatever prestige the bourgeoisie may today be willing to grant to fragmentary or deliberately retrograde artistic tentatives, creation can now be nothing less than a synthesis aiming at the construction of entire atmospheres and styles of life. . . . A unitary urbanism — the synthesis we call for, incorporating arts and technologies — must be created in accordance with new values of life, values which we now need to distinguish and disseminate. . . .

  Gil J Wolman

  Art, Style, Atmosphere

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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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• It's impracticable to halt the exponential advancement of technology.

  Ben Goertzel

  Advancement, Halt

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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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• The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect ball-bearings. To my mind, the outstanding spin-off from space research is not new technology. The real bonus has been that for the first time in human history we have had a chance to look at the Earth from space, and the information gained from seeing from the outside our azure-green planet in all its global beauty has given rise to a whole new set of questions and answers.

  James Lovelock

  Real, Space, Engineering

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