technology

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘technology’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of education because of innovation and technology. And we need administrative reform. Too much bureaucracy.” -Iveta Radicova

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  • “I wanted to be a pilot. I loved flying and I loved all the technology and the equipment and the sense of adventure that came with it. I think that feeling still bleeds over into everything I do today.” -Graham Brown

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  • “India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.” -Yoshiro Mori

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  • “Daoist thought is the root of science and technology in China.” -Joseph Needham

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  • “Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body’s new membrane of existence.” -Nam June Paik

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  • “But I don’t think we’ll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.” -Jack Schmitt

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  • “Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price.” -Jonathan Potter

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  • “I don’t think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.” -Jim Balsillie

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  • “Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.” -Aaron Swartz

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  • “Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.” -Jim Rash

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  • “If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.” -Ed Turner

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  • “The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.” -Eric Allman

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  • “Computer technology is so built into our lives that it’s part of the surround of every artist.” -Steven Levy

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  • “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

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  • “Social networking technology didn’t really exist until 2004-2005. I had the idea to use this technology to bridge this gap between a general interest in addressing social issues and the practical action.” -Ben Rattray

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  • “Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it’s own if it doesn’t, the thing collapses.” -Arnold Newman

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  • “I don’t know concretely if it’s due to superstition, but any time a new rule is implemented into the NBA or a new piece of equipment or a new technology, there is always a transition and adjustment period by players and coaches and anyone involved with the game.” -Stu Jackson

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  • “Technology makes the world a new place.” -Shoshana Zuboff

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  • “Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world’s great rogues in Iran and Syria.” -Robert McFarlane

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  • “People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.” -Donald Sadoway

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  • “They are responsible for starting this relationship and wanting to help Africa. The United States is very well suited for this as they are a country that has the capacity, they have better access to technology and they are a successful country.” -Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

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  • “Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors.” -Hugh Hopper

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  • “Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn’t that after all the definition of marriage?” -Howard Stringer

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  • “There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.” -Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

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  • “Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.” -Diane Duane

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  • “Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it’s benign… but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.” -Ted Bell

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  • “Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.” -David Bromstad

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  • “And what’s interesting about the hybrids taking off is you’ve now introduced electric motors to the automobile industry. It’s the first radical change in automobile technology in 100 years.” -Chris Anderson

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  • “We must speed up the deployment of broadband in order to bring high-speed data services to homes and businesses. The spread of information technology has contributed to a steady growth in U.S. productivity.” -Michael Oxley

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  • “Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.” -Dennis Moore

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  • “Our business is about technology, yes. But it’s also about operations and customer relationships.” -Michael Dell

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  • “IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments.” -John Patrick

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  • “People don’t want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology – all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.” -Peter Thiel

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  • “I can’t live without my smartphone, but I really geek on coding. It’s not so much technology that I like, but puzzle solving.” -Sylvia Day

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  • “Yet now we are faced with the sickening suspicion that technology has run ahead of us.” -Richard Dooling

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  • “Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we’re becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don’t think the desire for that magic will ever go away.” -Wolfgang…

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  • “I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.” -Ian Jackson

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  • “I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day – I’m interested in energy, I’m interested in the climate bill and technology policy.” -Charles F. Bass

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  • “My problem is that I like technology, but I always have to ask myself, ‘Now wait a minute, will I actually have any use for this?’” -Jerry Zucker

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  • “The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don’t know their neighbors, I don’t think that technology is at fault. You don’t lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.” -John Warnock

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  • “Vivendi will be one of the very few top communications groups of the Internet age. We will have customers all over the globe, providing services through all kinds of technology.” -Jean-Marie Messier

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  • “Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.” -John McKinley

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  • “The cancer doesn’t bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.” -Henry Cisneros

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  • “The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.” -Gordon Moore

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  • “I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.” -Jack L. Chalker

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  • “The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them – the ‘physical book,’ a new phrase in our language – is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.” -Art Spiegelman

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  • “I don’t cook – I can cook – but I’m not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can’t cook either. We would starve if it weren’t for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.” -Mark Mothersbaugh

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  • “The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something here, too.” -Paul Allen

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  • “You can’t stop technology or science, and it is snowballing quicker than ever. Something’s got to come to a head. How? Who knows? But it will.” -Billy Burke

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  • “And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, ‘cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.” -Gianni Agnelli

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  • “There was once a time when art history and film were basically the same medium, but art history is frozen in late-19th-century technology that has survived into the early 21st century.” -Robert Nelson

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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

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  • “I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.” -David Baltimore

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  • “Technology has changed the fan/actor interaction quite a bit.” -Misha Collins

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  • “Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.” -Steve Crocker

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  • “Virginia is the absolute leader in homeland security and defense and information technology.” -Mark Warner

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  • “I would like to see every parent either directly – if they are comfortable with the technology – or through a personal tutor, being able to access real-time information about their child.” -Jim Knight

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  • “We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.” -Kamla Persad-Bissessar

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  • “You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.” -Carlos Slim

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  • “From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America’s unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.” -George Nethercutt

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  • “It’s so exciting to be doing radio on the cutting edge of technology. Being in on something new is the biggest thrill in the world.” -Lynn Samuels

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  • “Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it’s not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.” -John Phillips

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  • “It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.” -Carrie P. Snow

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  • “The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept.” -James Collins

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  • “Well, in our industry it’s that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience. And I think that’s part of what will loosen up in the future, as technology makes it cheaper, you’ll be able to make films for a more selective audience. I think people will…

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  • “Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.” -Sid Meier

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  • “This really is a merger of equals. I wouldn’t have come back to work for anything less than this fantastic opportunity. This lets me combine my two great loves – technology and biscuits.” -Lou Gerstner

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  • “We have the new greatest generation. We don’t need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we have outfitting our personnel. They really are storm troopers.” -Joe Wilson

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  • “The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.” -Ralph Peters

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  • “I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.” -William Landay

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  • “The technology is good and it’s bad. You know what you’re dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don’t quite know what I’m dealing with out there yet.” -Paul Anka

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  • “I have the instruments, ideas, technology, computer techniques. We try to create or see something, which has not been known before – just to discover something together. This is always my dream.” -Lennart Nilsson

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  • “Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man’s command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization.” -Cordell Hull

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  • “With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.” -Vince Neil

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  • “New technology is useful, but it’s inefficient and ugly it knows it’ll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.” -Tom Holt

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  • “I’m going to be in technology for a long time.” -Eric Lefkofsky

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  • “Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the ‘yuck’ effect.” -Brigitte Boisselier

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  • “The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.” -Dan Glickman

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  • “In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology.” -Kenneth G. Wilson

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  • “I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.” -Mickey Hart

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  • “People are looking to have more meaning in their lives. It is a sign the technology community is coming of age.” -John Doerr

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  • “At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories… and that requires virtually no technology.” -Steven Levitan

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  • “Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types.” -Eric S. Raymond

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  • “A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites that promote illegally sourced content.” -David Puttnam

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  • “Stop relying only on technology.Technology can help the qualified, well-trained human being but cannot replace him.” -Isaac Yeffet

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  • “Computer games tend to be boys’ games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.” -Freeman A. Hrabowski III

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  • “There’s a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.” -Douglas Trumbull

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  • “I really believe that we don’t have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both.” -John Poindexter

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  • “More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.” -Stephen Carter

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  • “My wife handles all of our technology. So if something goes wrong with the computer, I throw up my arms and step aside while the IT gal figures it out.” -Ty Burrell

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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

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  • “The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created…

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  • “The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.” -Simon Wiesenthal

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  • “When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to…

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  • “Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.” -Naoto Kan

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  • “The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.” -Charles C. Mann

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  • “Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.” -Matt Blunt

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  • “Obviously, CGI in the last ten years has gone through such leaps and bounds that today, people are looking for these kinds of movies to wow audiences with technology.” -Avi Arad

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  • “The bottom line is how do we best provide for the security of the traveling public in light of a determined enemy who is adept at constructing well-designed, well-concealed devices which would not show up in a walk-through metal detector? We’re trying to employ the best technology to identify any possible threat.” -John Pistole

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  • “I’ve always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It’s amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.” -Geoff Downes

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  • “The thing that’s changed the most has just been the rapid technology.” -Jeffrey Katzenberg

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  • “Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.” -Richard Curtis

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  • “Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.” -Elon Musk

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  • “CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission – to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.” -John Harrison

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  • “For behaviorist films, that’s been much more useful – the change of technology – but for my kind of films, doing them on film is much better, because it’s more beautiful.” -Michael Apted

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  • “Society will decide after the technology is created what we will and won’t accept.” -Jesse Eisenberg

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  • “IBM’s long-standing mantra is ‘Think.’ What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.” -Ginni Rometty

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  • “We’re in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.” -Jeff Zucker

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  • “I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.” -Frederick Reines

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  • “To a considerable extent we are faced by a technology arms race with terrorists. The communications revolution has made it easier for terrorist groups to reach out to vulnerable individuals with their violent extremist ideology and propaganda. It has also facilitated fundraising, recruitment and training.” -Pauline Neville-Jones

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  • “I can’t get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!” -David Prowse

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  • “I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There’ll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there’ll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.” -Brian Lamb

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  • “When dealing in the technology, it becomes a question of whether you overuse something. I think that’s worse than having something technologically available to you and not using it.” -Al Michaels

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  • “Technology is permeating every single thing we do… And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we’re planning for the future.” -Marc Morial

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  • “Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.” -Timothy Garton Ash

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  • “The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.” -Koichi Tanaka

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  • “If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.” -Heather Donahue

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  • “I think 99 percent of women’s lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology – it doesn’t precede it.” -Lois McMaster Bujold

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  • “During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.” -Jim Walton

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  • “The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?” -Stanley Clarke

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  • “Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.” -Scott Turow

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  • “Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they’ll need to adapt to…

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  • “Technology isn’t the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I’m not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last…

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  • “I’ve been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I’ve been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science.” -Ann Druyan

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  • “I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you’ve done and more and more refine an existing performance.” -Jerry Harrison

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  • “From a technical point of view, there seemed to me to be absolutely no reason why – with the existing technology – we couldn’t do very high quality audio, because whereas the boom in digital graphics is ongoing, the boom in digital audio has already happened.” -Thomas Dolby

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  • “My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.” -Scott McCloud

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  • “I believe economic growth should translate into the happiness and progress of all. Along with it, there should be development of art and culture, literature and education, science and technology. We have to see how to harness the many resources of India for achieving common good and for inclusive growth.” -Pratibha Patil

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  • “We can do better in higher education. And it is more than just technology. It’s also an attitude on the part of faculty. We need to think through how we can produce a better quality product at less cost.” -Roy Romer

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  • “I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn’t very good no matter how much money you had.” -Terry Riley

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  • “Despite my emphasis on technology, I do not view laws as inherently evil. My goals are political ones, even if my techniques are not. The only way to fundamentally succeed is by changing existing laws. If I rejected all help from the political arena I would inevitably fail.” -Bram Cohen

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  • “That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed the basis for me receiving the 1980 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.” -Paul Berg

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  • “Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We’ve got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don’t have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.” -Emanuel Cleaver

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  • “But, when we started our product portfolio, we focused the mixed signal requirements first for image processing devices and then in audio applications , targeting our technology into the growing use of digital technology in consumer markets.” -David Milne

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  • “I’m not a tech guy. I’m looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people’s eyes.” -Jack Ma

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  • “Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.” -Mitchell Baker

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  • “Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.” -Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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  • “Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.” -John Dykstra

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  • “For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies – nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.” -Lorene Scafaria

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  • “We can just assume they have much more and powerful, more advanced technology, all the new computers, everything could be much more easier and help them to build much more and many more nuclear weapons.” -Mordechai Vanunu

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  • “Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.” -Scott Cook

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  • “Canada’s a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.” -Marc Garneau

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  • “Ever since the arrival of printing – thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people’s minds – people have been arguing that new technology would have disastrous consequences for language.” -David Crystal

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  • “There’s evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.” -Mark Rydell

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  • “I think that’s the phenomenon of our time is that a lot of women keep themselves in good shape but that there’s not a lot of accommodation or people out there to connect with and the technology.” -Stockard Channing

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  • “Why doesn’t Apple stop for a year and make medical devices? When people talk about technology, that’s where I start to get a little hot under the collar because I know that it’s the key to solving some of the world’s biggest problems. Having a faster, thinner telephone is not one of the world’s biggest…

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  • “You can always improve on something, the technology is different today, but I would leave it well alone. If there was something that was incomplete, that might be interesting… because I do that on my website.” -Dave Davies

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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

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  • “The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes.” -Doris Kearns Goodwin

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  • “The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.” -Lord Robertson

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  • “The technology is really where all of the changes have taken place, but the fundamentals of a good story being the basis of every good picture, and really the only basis still remains the rule, more so today, I think, because we’ve unfortunately weaned an audience from birth to kind of mindless movies.” -Richard D.…

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  • “Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology.” -Arthur Levitt

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  • “There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.” -Peter Erskine

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  • “I try to be careful because technology changes so much over the years. But some things don’t change. Kids and parents have disagreements, kids try to manipulate, parents try to sit down with rules and regs. That part never changes.” -Paula Danziger

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  • “We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way.” -Al Jarreau

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  • “From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.” -Preet Bharara

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  • “Stevie didn’t use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don’t use my work to further the tools.” -Brian McKnight

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  • “I had two passions growing up – one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two – and there was Spotify.” -Daniel Ek

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  • “First, I do not think there is any silver bullet to solving the technology side of the security equation.” -John W. Thompson

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  • “If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.” -Charles Mengel Allen

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  • “Technology will eventually destroy the way schools are run now.” -Daniel Greenberg

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  • “I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.” -Lars von Trier

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  • “The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy – technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.” -Sherwood Boehlert

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  • “The size of a studio film lets you see technology in a way that you wouldn’t on an independent film, like the gadgets and the angles and all that.” -Juno Temple

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  • “I have reviewed literally hundreds of dotcoms in my drive to bring Boomer Esiason Foundation onto the Internet, and have selected ClickThings as a partner because of the advanced technology it offers small business, and its understanding of the entrepreneurial spirit of the small business community.” -Boomer Esiason

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  • “People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.” -Nina…

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  • “Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone.” -Ed Royce

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  • “We’re competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.” -John Callahan

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  • “Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.” -Pete Waterman

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  • “Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.” -Judith Martin

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  • “With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.” -Tom Udall

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  • “Working in Hollywood, it’s clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!” -Ziyi Zhang

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  • “I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.” -Robert Englund

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  • “The music technology scene is changing so fast it’s hard to keep up.” -Natasha Bedingfield

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  • “I’m creating the kind of games that I like right now. I’m not being held back by technology.” -John Romero

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  • “The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.” -Norman Spinrad

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  • “Looking ahead, I believe that the underlying importance of higher education, of science, of technology, of research and scholarship to our quality of life, to the strength of our economy, to our security in many dimensions will continue to be the most important message.” -Charles Vest

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  • “They’ve just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there’s a proper time for a pat down, there’s a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.” -John Mica

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  • “I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.” -Dana Spiotta

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  • “There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.” -Jackie Stewart

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