Technology Quotes - Page 31

• Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.

  Dave McClure

  Creativity, Design, Important

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• It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

  Abbe Pierre

  War, Humanity, Atrocities

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• As an avid photographer, I also took advantage of the latest technology in photography - digital photography - to post photos on my website on a daily basis.

  Tipper Gore

  Photography, Avid, Digital

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.

  Richard Mitchell

  Educational, Writing, Thinking

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• It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex dominations. Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves.

  Donna J. Haraway

  Mean, Mazes, Tools

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• Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Jobs, Cells, Fuel

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• It’s not rocket science. It’s social science – the science of understanding people’s needs and their unique relationship with art, literature, history, music, work, philosophy, community, technology and psychology. The act of design is structuring and creating that balance.

  Clement Mok

  Art, Philosophy, Unique

  "Everything Reverberates: Thoughts on Design". Book edited by American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1998.

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• I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the ‘instantly available’.

  Richard Foreman

  Self, Information, Pressure

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• After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

  Harry Seidler

  War, Earthquakes, World

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• All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

  Heather Donahue

  Connections, Schemes, Knows

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• HubSpot's CRM and Sidekick are perfect for companies that want to transform how they attract, engage, and delight prospects, customers and leads and want sales technology that matches today's buying process.

  Brian Halligan

  Perfect, Sidekicks, Delight

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• What I’m trying to show is that the main event today is not seen by those of us that are living it… So it’s not the effect of [technology], it is that everything exists with-in [its milieu]. It's not that we use technology, we live technology. Technology has become as ubiquitous as the air we breathe, so we are no longer conscious of its presence.

  Godfrey Reggio

  Air, Trying, Events

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• Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up for national decision.

  Herman Kahn

  Issues, Decision, Wealth

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• Changes that used to take place in 50 years now happen in a handful of years . . . or even months. And how we deal with that changing technology explains almost everything.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Years, Months, Used

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• Trust your intuition, rather than technology, to protect you from violence.

  Tom Butler-Bowdon

  Intuition, Violence, Protect You

  Tom Butler-Bowdon (2010). “50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do: Insight and Inspiration from 50 Key Books”, p.20, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

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• In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

  James Gunn

  Change, Character, People

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• I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly educated and articulate personality--a man or woman who carried inside themselves a personally constructed and unique version of the entire heritage of the West. [But now] I see within us all (myself included) there placement of complex inner density with a new kind of self--evolving under the pressure of information overload and the technology of the 'instantly available.'

  Richard Foreman

  Unique, Men, Self

  "The Pancake People, Or, 'The Gods Are Pounding My Head'". A Statement, www.edge.org. March 8, 2005.

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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 spend most of my time assuming the world is not ready for the technology revolution that will be happening to them soon.

  Eric Schmidt

  World, Revolution, Assuming

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• Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Writing, Style, Crafts

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• Using the latest in science and technology to shatter today's economic paradigm of 'insatiable individuals competing for scarce resources,' Planetary Citizenship brings us full circle to the ancient wisdom of indigenous peoples and the sacredness of creation.

  Rebecca Adamson

  Circles, Full Circle, Today

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• The most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death that material prosperity bring enjoyment and happiness - even though all the proofs in history have shown that only lack and attempt cause a life worth living, that the material prosperity doesn't bring anything else than despair. These priests believe in technology still when they choke in their gas masks.

  Pentti Linkola

  Believe, People, Growth

  "Rating humanity" by Brendan O'Neill, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2007.

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• Let's stick to the practical and the concrete: Would you like it if people lived in a virtual world? If machines were smarter than people? If, in the future, people, animals and plants were products of technology? If you don't like these ideas, then for you the computer and biological sciences clearly are dangerous.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Animal, Ideas, People

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• The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that's at least 10 times better at doing something than the current prevailing way of doing that thing. Two or three times better will not be good enough to get people to switch to the new thing fast enough or in large enough volume to matter.

  Ben Horowitz

  Two, People, Three

  "HOROWITZ: How To Build A Great Culture At Your Startup" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. December 19, 2012.

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• We always purchase the latest technology and equipement ahead of when we actually need it, so it is always ready to work when the real demand is there for it. We implement the changes before the customers even realizes a need for it.

  Eric Metcalf

  Real, Needs, Demand

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