Technology Quotes - Page 39

• Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, People, Mind

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• The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear weapons and banish them from the arsenals of the world.

  C. G. Weeramantry

  Simple, Nuclear, World

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• Technology is usually fairly neutral. It’s like a hammer, which can be used to build a house or to destroy someone’s home. The hammer doesn’t care. It is almost always up to us to determine whether the technology is good or bad.

  Noam Chomsky

  Home, House, Hammers

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• Essentially all civilizations that rose to the level of possessing an urban culture had need for two forms of science-related technology, namely, mathematics for land measurements and commerce and astronomy for time-keeping in agriculture and aspects of religious rituals.

  Frederick Seitz

  Religious, Land, Civilization

  Frederick Seitz (2012). “The Science Matrix: The Journey, Travails, Triumphs”, p.8, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Brothers and sisters, with the blessings of modern technology, we can express gratitude and joy about God’s great plan for His children in a way that can be heard not only around our workplace but around the world. Sometimes a single phrase of testimony can set events in motion that affect someone’s life for eternity.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Brother, Children

  FaceBook post by Dieter F Uchtdorf from Aug 17, 2014

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• Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.

  Noam Chomsky

  Crush, Skulls, House

  "Noam Chomsky on the Purpose of Education" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. March 13, 2012.

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• So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.

  Martin Heidegger

  Long, Masters, Instruments

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• Technology must be implemented as part of a thoughtful, holistic approach to education transformation that includes teacher training, relevant curricula, parental involvement, and programs for children that fill unmet needs for basics like nutrition and health care.

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Children, Thoughtful

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• The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation.

  John F. Kennedy

  Air, Sea, Allies

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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• Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Notebook, Simple, Schedules

  Twitter post from Sep 21, 2011

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• Technology has made the world into a Village. Spirituality has made it into a Global Family.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  World, Village, Spirituality

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• You must know your faith with the same precision with which a specialist in information technology knows the operating system of a computer.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Information, Computer, Precision

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• Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Engineering, Bypass, Social

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• I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Work, Women, Real

  "Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: who are you calling bossy?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2014.

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• Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot?

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Travel, Men, Dust

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• This is a technology where without external input, you create a chemistry of blissfulness within you.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• Today, it is more important than ever to raise human consciousness, so that technology becomes a means of empowerment, not destruction.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Mean

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• The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Meditation

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• What is most needed right now is evolving human consciousness. Without that, science, technology, development, everything will go waste.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Perception, Development

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• Ten million new millionaires will be created by 2016, and you can become one of them - especiall y if you are in direct selling, technology or home-based business.

  Paul Zane Pilzer

  Home, Direct Selling, Millionaire

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• If we human beings rely only on material development, we can’t be sure of a positive outcome. Employing technology motivated by anger and hatred is likely to be destructive. It will only be beneficial if we seek the welfare of all beings. Human beings are the only species with the potential to destroy the world. Because of the risks of unrestrained desire and greed we need to cultivate contentment and simplicity.

  Dalai Lama

  Hatred, Greed, Simplicity

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• We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like.

  Honor Harger

  Beautiful, Artist, Space

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• After the idea, there is plenty of time to learn the technology

  James Dyson

  Ideas, Plenty

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• Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

  Douglas Coupland

  Holiday, Break

  Douglas Coupland (2016). “Bit Rot”, p.134, Random House

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• The real cost of the State is the prosperity we do not see, the jobs that don’t exist, the technologies to which we do not have access, the businesses that do not come into existence, and the bright future that is stolen from us. The State has looted us just as surely as a robber who enters our home at night and steals all that we love.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Jobs, Real, Home

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