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).

  • “Technology should be an important ingredient. It may be and should be a tool for social development.” -Aleksander Kwasniewski

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  • “Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.” -Lee R. Raymond

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  • “The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn’t change.” -Pierre Schaeffer

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  • “If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.” -Arthur Holly Compton

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  • “The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought.” -Nick Price

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  • “To maximize our potential to enhance our health and our knowledge, we should remain open to new understanding and evolving technology or resources that might inspire a change in our approach to these important questions.” -Samuel Wilson

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  • “People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful.” -Lawrence Wright

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  • “At a minimum the majority of search dollars will flow to a social media model because people care most about what their peers think and the technology is there for that information to be quickly shared on products and services.” -Erik Qualman

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  • “The technology is just so far gone. It’s just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.” -Jam Master Jay

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  • “If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.” -Mike Davidson

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  • “Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.” -Issey Miyake

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  • “When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don’t think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn’t want their ATM machines lifted.” -Hilary Rosen

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  • “On the other hand, there would be some value in different folks getting together to share expertise and technology but to the listener, it wouldn’t necessarily seem like a single station in the traditional sense.” -Jamie Zawinski

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  • “Life is about family and technology.” -Mark Goddard

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  • “Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.” -Stewart Brand

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  • “I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.” -Russ Carnahan

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  • “Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.” -Nina Fedoroff

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  • “We’ve complemented that with a second office to think about how we need to prepare ourselves for that period 10 or 15 or 20 years from now, by way of investment in our technology, our organization and our people.” -Stephen Cambone

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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

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  • “Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology.” -Serge Haroche

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  • “We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.” -Ellen Ochoa

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  • “In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It’s the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind.” -Maurice Saatchi

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  • “The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.” -Laurent Fabius

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  • “Thus, after finishing high school, I started with high expectations and enthusiasm to study chemistry at the famous Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.” -Richard Ernst

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  • “We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.” -Freeman Thomas

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  • “Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.” -Luc Ferrari

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  • “I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window.” -John Eaton

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  • “Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.” -Jesse James Garrett

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  • “Well, it’s very dangerous to project, but it’s clear that the existing technology has some more years to go.” -Jack Kilby

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  • “I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.” -Miroslav Vitous

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  • “I’m committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue to do so through the successful execution of our core strategic priorities: the creation of high quality, branded content and experiences, the use of technology, and creating growth in numerous and exciting international markets.” -Bob Iger

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  • “You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.” -Wangari Maathai

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  • “I’m always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I’ll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don’t really think that’s the direction I would want to go.” -Mike Gordon

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  • “I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans’ natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.” -Vernor Vinge

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  • “I was the first spokesperson for the Better Hearing Institute in Washington. And that’s the message we tried to send out – there is hearing help out there, and the technology and options are amazing.” -Norm Crosby

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  • “Pretty soon we’ll have robots in our society, you’re going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people – this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.” -Jose Padilha

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  • “It’s hard to say exactly what it is about face-to-face contact that makes deals happen, but whatever it is, it hasn’t yet been duplicated by technology.” -Paul Graham

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  • “Intel’s still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don’t have anything planned, but we’re constantly being aware to make sure our customers get the best technology.” -Kevin Rollins

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  • “Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines – of molecular machines that are part of replicators – and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise.” -K. Eric Drexler

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  • “I think every student needs access to technology, and I think technology can be a hugely important vehicle to help level the playing field.” -Arne Duncan

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  • “Growing up, I wish that I’d had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that’s out right now.” -James Harden

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  • “Through all aspects of society be it art, design, the financial markets, government, technology or communications we are witnessing unprecedented global transformation – the result of which is impossible to predict.” -Malcolm Mclaren

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  • “What is design? It’s where you stand with a foot in two worlds – the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes – and you try to bring the two together.” -Mitchell Kapor

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  • “More and more, job listings are exclusively available online and as technology evolves nearly every occupation now requires a basic level of digital literacy with web navigation, email access and participation in social media.” -Michael K. Powell

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  • “It’s a 360-degree sound experience. Like you’re in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.” -Aaron Neville

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  • “We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.” -Donald Evans

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  • “Further, the United States is moving ahead in the development of clean coal technology. There are vast coal reserves in our country, and when it is burned cleanly, coal can provide a resource to supply a large amount of our energy requirements.” -Virgil Goode

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  • “We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.” -Michael Chertoff

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  • “The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.” -Cynthia McKinney

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  • “When you look at other countries that are developing the capabilities and the technology to deploy missiles of very significant destructive capability with nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads, then the MAD dogma makes even less sense.” -Don Nickles

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  • “As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.” -Nathan Deal

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  • “Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. His ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ predicted Jobs and a future where technology was our friend. Kubrick, of course, didn’t like what he saw. And occasionally, I have my doubts.” -Wesley Morris

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  • “Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we’re all in it together. It’ll work when there’s a shared sense of destiny.…

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  • “My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson’s diseases, diabetes or blood diseases.” -Shinya Yamanaka

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  • “If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that’s a circle of win.” -LeVar Burton

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  • “‘Avatar’ is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it’s put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.” -Joe Dante

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  • “Magic, like technology, is a tool.” -Mercedes Lackey

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  • “For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal.” -Tim Holden

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  • “We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you’re not constantly moving forward, then – without a doubt – you’re moving backwards.” -Bill Owens

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  • “Second, we’re spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We’re spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM.” -Jay Chiat

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  • “My first job after college was at Magic Quest, an educational software startup company where I was responsible for writing the content. I found that job somewhat accidentally but after working there a few weeks and loving my job, I decided to pursue a career in technology.” -Susan Wojcicki

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  • “This would only come if you have a revolutionary change in technology like the jet brought about.” -Adolf Galland

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  • “The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.” -Timothy Murphy

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  • “My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.” -An Wang

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  • “Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.” -Daniel Bell

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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

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  • “Well Microsoft really does develop some really interesting technology.” -Miguel de Icaza

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  • “I have advocated an entirely different approach than cap and tax, which would be worldwide in application and which emphasizes technology as a way of reducing total emissions.” -Jim Sensenbrenner

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  • “It’s hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.” -Lee Scott

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  • “Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.” -Vivian Campbell

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  • “Technology forced me to divorce a pixie and remarry a pixel.” -Brian Celio

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  • “You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it’s primarily about the songs, it’s about song writing.” -Chris Lowe

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  • “I’m of the opinion that the technology is in a place where there’s really no excuse not to just make your movie.” -Dax Shepard

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  • “It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.” -John von Neumann

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  • “Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance – the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.” -Emily Greene Balch

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  • “To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back… abandoned.” -Bernardo Bertolucci

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  • “You can get digital technology that almost is film quality, and go make little films and do everything you can to find a little understanding of your own voice and it will grow – Don’t take no for an answer – Take every opportunity you can to do something.” -Jon Voight

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  • “The People’s Republic of China has not yet reached the military might of the Soviet Empire. It requires a little more time and a little more infusion of Western aid, loans, technology and the hard currency of our tourists.” -Barbara Amiel

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  • “It’s big production. It’s huge. It’s using studio technology to your benefit. You don’t go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.” -Joe Elliott

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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

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  • “I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that’s a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it’s not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They’re doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for…

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  • “We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.” -Michael Eisner

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  • “However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted.” -Hideki Tojo

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  • “People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.” -Daniel Yergin

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  • “The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.” -Edward Tufte

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  • “As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.” -Steve Buyer

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  • “Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don’t have to experience it.” -Max Frisch

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  • “The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change.” -Michael Porter

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  • “Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind.” -Bob Ney

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  • “Additionally, Smart Irrigation Month serves to recognize advances in irrigation technology and practices that produce not only more but also higher quality plants with less water.” -Jim Costa

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  • “My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.” -Sidney Altman

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  • “In my column series ‘The Main Thing,’ I often talk about how Internet technology can improve the way people communicate – both within a business and between a business and its customers and partners.” -Jim Barksdale

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  • “Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company – from a one-person agency to a small firm, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspect of Internet-based businesses.” -Marc Ostrofsky

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  • “Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone – the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it’s sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.” -Zachary Levi

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  • “That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking advantage of better tools, methods and organization.” -Charles E. Wilson

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  • “It’s very difficult in the technology space when you have been leapfrogged to prosper again.” -James Chanos

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  • “No one bill will cure the problem of spam. It will take a combined effort of legislation, litigation, enforcement, customer education, and technology solutions.” -David Baker

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  • “And what is religion, you might ask. It’s a technology of living.” -Toni Cade Bambara

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  • “The committee’s finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.” -Charles Foster Bass

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  • “As children, many of us were taught never to talk to strangers. As parents and grandparents, our message must change with technology to include strangers on the Internet.” -Judy Biggert

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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

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  • “What I’m trying to do is to at least raise a flag to the blinding light of technology.” -Godfrey Reggio

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  • “Whereas with us – what you hear is what’s happening right then and there on the stage – so we don’t need no stinking technology.” -James Young

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  • “Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that’s continually trying to erode that.” -John Frankenheimer

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  • “Today, over half of China’s undergraduate degrees are in math, science technology and engineering, yet only 16 percent of America’s undergraduates pursue these schools.” -Cathy McMorris

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  • “The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.” -Cliff Stearns

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  • “Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.” -Norman Borlaug

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  • “We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.” -Kevin Richardson

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  • “Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America’s students to study more science and math parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.” -Ernest Istook

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  • “There are better alternatives… Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.” -Bob Brown

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  • “I’ve gone to China, bought a manufacturing company and moved it to America. Now China wants to buy back some of that new technology from me. That’s a great story for America.” -Terry McAuliffe

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  • “Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.” -Lou Gramm

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  • “And like I say, I think we’ve got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that’s why I think it is an urgent issue.” -David Kay

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  • “Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn’t happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been…

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  • “While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.” -Carol Bellamy

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  • “These days there’s so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms.” -Mick Taylor

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  • “Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.” -Herbert Simon

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  • “Technology is not good, it’s neutral.” -Tom Shadyac

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  • “I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you and I are analog creatures. We have to take ‘oohs and aahs’ and convert them to 0s and 1s and then convert them back to ‘oohs and aahs.’ Narratives that work in social…

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  • “Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We’re fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn’t going to die down.” -Reggie Watts

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  • “But by the time I was 40, everything was winding down. It started after the war. On the plus side, there was more more products and technology. But for me the nightlife was winding down, the glamour, the fun.” -Cesar Romero

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  • “The U.S. is looking to India as more then just a marketplace for our defense products, but as a technology, aerospace and strategic partner for our future endeavors.” -Kit Bond

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  • “Most people are really stunned to find out that the technology has been around for more than 100 years, and that the diesel engine was in fact invented to run on vegetable oil.” -Daryl Hannah

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  • “As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.” -Mike Fitzpatrick

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  • “Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.” -Macklemore

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  • “I’ve been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology it’s the box it comes in.” -Donald Norman

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  • “But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.” -Bill Griffith

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  • “A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.” -Max Lerner

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  • “With the way everything’s going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.” -Carmelo Anthony

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  • “The federal government… knows how to put a missile in someone’s room half way around the world with technology. Why don’t we use some of that technology to save some lives here in America?” -Michael Nutter

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  • “You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock ‘n roll stars.” -James Daly

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  • “Don’t leave hold of your common sense. Think about what you’re doing and how the technology can enhance it. Don’t think about technology first.” -Esther Dyson

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  • “A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level.” -Ralph Merkle

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  • “We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.” -Ed Markey

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  • “Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances, while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.” -John Doolittle

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  • “Take, therefore, what modern technology is capable of: the power of our moral sense allied to the power of communications and our ability to organize internationally.That, in my view, gives us the first opportunity as a community to fundamentally change the world.” -Gordon Brown

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  • “I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.” -Chris Hughes

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  • “I have a grandson who is 20. He’s a computer guy. I’m worried that he can’t communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That’s the bad part of technology.” -Penny Marshall

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  • “Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication. And so many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we’re putting kids in very adult situations and expecting…

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  • “Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it.” -Suzanne Fields

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  • “I mean, when you get down to very low numbers of nuclear weapons, and you contemplate going to zero, how do you deal with the reality of that technology being available to almost any country that seeks to pursue it? And what conditions do you put in place?” -Robert M. Gates

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  • “The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.” -Glen Hansard

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  • “The reality is that what you find out is that your head is the medicine. If your head is not in the right place and you don’t think positively, all the medicine technology in the world is not going to work.” -Herbie Mann

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  • “Today we’re focused on small acquisitions to add technology where necessary. I think it’s fair to say we’re not out looking for a large one, but I think it’s also very fair to say that as a public company you can never say never.” -Sanjay Kumar

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  • “We’re in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that’s what’s new about television and film these days.” -Jennifer Morrison

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  • “A total nuclear freeze is counterproductive – especially now, when technology is rapidly changing and the Soviets have some important strategic advantages.” -Herman Kahn

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  • “I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That’s what I hate about all this technology.” -Irvine Welsh

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  • “When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.” -Rick Danko

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  • “I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I’m very good at interpreting the information.” -Jim Cramer

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  • “Advances in technology and in our understanding of illness and disease together with an expanded workforce and greater resources will allow us to provide more services to a higher quality.” -John Hutton

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  • “Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields – in medicine and information technology – should not be overlooked.” -Bob Barr

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  • “The recent fascination, I think, reflects the shift in approach by law enforcement officials to embrace technology as wholeheartedly as the rest of the world.” -Jeffery Deaver

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  • “Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.” -Jacques Ellul

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  • “Weapons of mass destruction aren’t pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They’re produced in factories. There’s science and technology involved. They’re not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.” -Scott Ritter

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  • “The original PATRIOT Act greatly increased our nation’s ability to share intelligence information, made better use of technology, and provided terrorism investigators tools that have long been available in cases involving illegal drugs and organized crime.” -Michael K. Simpson

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  • “My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.” -Richard Powers

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  • “Every technology, including the printing press, comes at some price.” -Bill Keller

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  • “James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.” -Joe Morton

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  • “Since fantasy isn’t about technology, the accelleration has no impact at all. But it’s changed the lives of fantasy writers and editors. I get to live in England and work for a New York publisher!” -Terri Windling

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  • “I’m in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.” -Walter Jon Williams

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  • “Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).”…

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  • “Because I do think – not just in building AOL – but just the world in which we live is a very confusing, rapidly changing world where technology has accelerated.” -Steve Case

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  • “I’ve been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.” -Mike Shinoda

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  • “I love technology. We can be our own DJs wherever we go.” -Ludacris

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  • “NAFTA recognizes the reality of today’s economy – globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.” -John F. Kerry

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  • “I’ve been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.” -St. Vincent

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  • “We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.” -Major Owens

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  • “With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don’t need to mine uranium for the next thousand years.” -James Hansen

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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

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  • “But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.” -Joseph Rotblat

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  • “We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing… The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.” -Daniel H. Wilson

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  • “What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing – the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.” -Barbara Kruger

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  • “A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology.” -Robert Trout

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  • “I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.” -Robert Ballard

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  • “In my mind I needed a symbol of today’s technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that’s where Places of Power came into being.” -John Sexton

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  • “Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again – conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.” -Jurgen Habermas

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  • “But some great records are are being made with today’s technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldn’t have emerged when recording was more organic.” -Tony Visconti

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  • “I enjoy privacy. I think it’s nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I’d like to preserve some of that.” -Maggie Q

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  • “I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we’ve got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.” -Meg Whitman

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  • “So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.” -David Bohm

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