841 private quotes tagged technology

“The way the world is going, it's technology driven. And it isn't just driven by the old super powers, it's driven by the far east and new emerging economies.” — James Dyson

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“So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.” — James Dyson

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“Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.” — Jaron Lanier

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“The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.” — James Dyson

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“It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.” — Barry Commoner

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“If you really want to improve technology, if you want things to work better and be better, you've got to protect the person who spends a lot of effort, money, and time developing that new technology.” — James Dyson

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“I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.” — Eddie Vedder

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“I believe that we were not as effective in the second term dealing with this issue of nuclear none proliferation as we had been during the first term when we stripped Libya and Iraq and A.Q. Khan and their capacity to proliferate nuclear technology.” — Dick Cheney

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

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“I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.” — Whitfield Diffie

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“In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.” — Dean Kamen

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“Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.” — Robert Rodriguez

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“In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world.” — Lucy Powell

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“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” — Christian Lous Lange

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“If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.” — Bruce Schneier

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“For the last 10 years, I've felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but I've never understood why. It's cheaper to work on film, it's far better looking, it's the technology that's been known and understood for a hundred years, and it's extremely reliable.” — Christopher Nolan

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“I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.” — Jodi Picoult

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“The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.” — Steve Ballmer

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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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“Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.” — Marissa Mayer

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“I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.” — J. J. Abrams

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“For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.” — Tom Peters

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“In a way, film and television are in the same sort of traumatic trance that print journalism is. The technology has outpaced our comprehension of its implications.” — Tony Kushner

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“But, in each case, as a filmmaker who's been given sizable budgets with which to work, I feel a responsibility to the audience to be shooting with the absolute highest quality technology that I can and make the film in a way that I want.” — Christopher Nolan

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“Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.” — Catherine Deneuve

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