841 private quotes tagged technology

“Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.” — Steve Jobs

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“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” — Bill Gates

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“Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.” — Tom Hanks

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“Men have become the tools of their tools.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.” — Steve Jobs

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“We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.” — Carl Sagan

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“Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.” — Dave Barry

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“I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.” — Steve Jobs

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“What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.” — Arnold H. Glasow

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“We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.” — Richard Dawkins

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“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” — Alan Kay

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“Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.” — Alan Kay

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“Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?” — Abdul Kalam

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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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“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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“You can't really imagine music without technology.” — Brian Eno

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“The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment.” — Steve Jobs

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“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” — Albert Einstein

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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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“The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.” — Karl Popper

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“The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.” — Oscar Wilde

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“It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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