Technology Quotes - Page 33

• Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

  Rod Paige

  Stills, Usefulness

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• When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

  Theodore Zeldin

  Learning, Knowledge, Way

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• Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

  Brigitte Boisselier

  Yuck, Effects, Reproduction

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• To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.

  Dan Falk

  Lying, Science, Consciousness

  Dan Falk (2010). “In Search of Time: The History, Physics, and Philosophy of Time”, p.3, Macmillan

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• A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Self, Survival, High Standards

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.53, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Chess is far too complex to be definitively solved with any technology we can conceive of today. However, our looked-down-upon cousin, checkers, or draughts, suffered this fate quite recently thanks to the work of Jonathan Schaeffer at the University of Alberta and his unbeatable program Chinook.

  Garry Kasparov

  Cousin, Fate, Chess

  "Garry Kasparov On ‘Chess Metaphors’: The Chess Master And The Computer" by Garry Kasparov, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a girl on her laptop in Texas can see photos and cell phone video in real time that a young college student has posted of a rally he's at in Iran.

  Rosalind Wiseman

  Girl, Real, College

  "Liberty, Justice, and Freedom of Information for All" by Rosalind Wiseman, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2009.

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• What’s next for technology and design? A lot less thinking about technology for technology’s sake, and a lot more thinking about design. Art humanizes technology and makes it understandable. Design is needed to make sense of information overload. It is why art and design will rise in importance during this century as we try to make sense of all the possibilities that digital technology now affords.

  John Maeda

  Art, Thinking, Design

  "Why Apple Leads the Way in Design" by John Maeda, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 27, 2010.

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• Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.

  John Charles Polanyi

  Rights, Oppression, Absence

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• As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding the earth of these technologies that propagate disease, suffering, and death.

  Helen Caldicott

  Mother, Doctors, Practice

  Helen Caldicott, Nancy Herrington, Nahum Stiskin (1982). “Nuclear madness: what you can do! : with a new chapter on Three Mile Island”, Bantam

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• Do you know what the costliest phrase in technology is? 'It will work because it would be cool if it did.'

  Jean Louis

  Would Be, Phrases, Being Cool

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• Everywhere in a day there is light. Look around. Everywhere. Look at your smart phone. It has a flashlight, an LED flashlight. These are potential sources for high-speed data transmission.

  Harald Haas

  Motivation, Smart, Inspiration

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• The unprecedented development of science and technology... so rapid that it is said that 90 per cent of the scientists which this country has ever produced are still living today.

  Robert Platt

  Country, Science, Today

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• Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.

  Jay Chiat

  Opportunity, Numbers, Clients

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• When a child enters your life it's time to learn [not time to teach].

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Children, Science, Teach

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• Language as the technology of human extension, whose powers of division and separation we know so well, may have been the "Tower of Babel" by which men sought to scale the highest heavens. Today computers hold out the promise of a means of instant tr

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mean, Men, Heaven

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• "It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is important not only for sanity and peace of mind, but also for the most "practical" reasons of economics, politics, and technology.. This is not to say only that things exist in relation to one another, but that what we call "things" are no more than glimpses of a unified process. Certainly, this process has distinct features which catch our attention, but we must remember that distinction is not separation."

  Alan Watts

  Animal, Vegetables, Mind Blowing

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• I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.

  Walt Mossberg

  Class, Enemy, Different

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• There's nothing native about young people's engagement with technology.

  danah boyd

  People, Engagement, Young

  "Danah Boyd: 'People looked at me like I was an alien'" by Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2009.

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• We are...capable of using our compassion and our intelligence, our technology and our wealth, to make an abundant and meaningful life for every inhabitant of this planet. To enhance enormously our understanding of the Universe, and to carry us to the stars.

  Carl Sagan

  Meaningful, Stars, Compassion

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• Incantations for Muggles:
  The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life.

  danah boyd

  Everyday, Roles, Muggles

  "Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life". danah boyd's Keynote address at O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California, www.danah.org. March 28, 2007.

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• Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.

  William J. Clinton

  Tuning, Way, Wonderful

  Clinton, William J. (1999). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1998”, p.212, Best Books on

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• The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

  Edward Tufte

  Should, Harm, Minimum

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• I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies.

  Marc Newson

  Process, Materials, Fascinated

  "Designing a life less ordinary". www.cnn.com. March 30, 2005.

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