Technology Quotes - Page 36

• If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do.

  Lewis Thomas

  Use, Century, Sooner Or Later

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.

  Seth Godin

  People, Figures, Whole

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• Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.

  Jared Diamond

  Mean, Literature, Today

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• Innovative, bottom-up methods will solve problems that now seem intractable—from energy to poverty to disease. Science and technology, powered by the fuel of entrepreneurial energy, are the largest multipliers of resources we have to solve our many social problems.

  Vinod Khosla

  Energy, Fuel, Disease

  " The networker Why Tony Blair is a high-tech company's best friend" by John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.

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• Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?

  Abraham Maslow

  Joy, Why Not, Wells

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• Digital technology, you see, is not the villain here. It simply offers another dimension. I'm not sure if it's a farther remove from reality than analogue. I think if we can speak of reality, if reality and representation can be spoken of in the same sentence, if reality even exists any more, digital is simply another way of encoding that reality.

  Lewis Baltz

  Reality, Thinking, Way

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• TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.

  Tom Peters

  Issues, Decades

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• On technology: The teacher is mightier than the mouse.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Teacher, Learning

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• I know nothing about technology.

  Jack Ma

  Knows

  Web 2.0 Summit, archive.oreilly.com. December 6, 2006.

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• I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops.

  Gijs de Vries

  Change, Inevitable

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• Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else.

  Jason Silva

  Subjectivity, Film, Share

  "Tribeca Film Festival: Filmmaker and Futurist Jason Silva On How Humans Are Hardwired for Story and Cinema". Interview with Paula Bernstein, www.indiewire.com. April 21, 2014.

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• I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

  Bernard Ebbers

  Finance, Economy, Accounting

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• Technology & technicians, you can always buy with money; but the wealthiest person must build relationships.

  Shiv Khera

  Persons, Technicians

  FaceBook post by Shiv Khera from Dec 04, 2014

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• I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.

  Gavin Bryars

  Europe, Cds, Understanding

  Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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• Clandestine attempts between late 1999 and 2002 to obtain from North Korea technology related to 1,300km range ballistic missiles, probably the No Dong 300km range anti-ship cruise missiles and other prohibited military equipment.

  David Kay

  Military, Korea, Ships

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• The old computing was about what computers could do; the new computing is about what users can do. Successful technologies are those that are in harmony with users' needs. They must support relationships and activities that enrich the users' experiences.

  Ben Shneiderman

  Successful, Support, Needs

  Ben Shneiderman (2003). “Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies”, p.2, MIT Press

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• The more technology becomes complicated inside, the more it has to be simple outside.

  Derrick de Kerckhove

  Simple, Complicated

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• Only science can hope to keep technology in some sort of moral order.

  Edgar Friedenberg

  Order, Moral

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• To change the world , we need to combine Ancient wisdom with new technologies

  Paulo Coelho

  World, Needs, Ancient

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• I think technology really increased human ability, but technology cannot produce compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Thinking, Compassion, Produce

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• In the beginning, we create the enemy. Before the weapon comes the image. We think others to death and then invent the battle-axe or ballistic missiles with which to actually kill them. Propaganda precedes technology.

  Sam Keen

  Thinking, Enemy, Battle

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• We need to embark on a human revolution. A revolution where our reality is not replaced by drones but augmented by technology to do better.

  Vishal Sikka

  Journey, Reality, Drones

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• The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Inspiring, Oil, Energy

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• Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

  Paul Kagame

  Inspiring, Keys, Economic

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• Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Age, Industrialization, Revolution

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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