841 private quotes tagged technology

“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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“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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“In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.” — 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 combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.” — Simon Wiesenthal

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

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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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“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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“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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“Realize that a Muslim will know that his wife was seen naked in this machine. You know what would be the reaction?... Terrible. I believe there's technology out there that can identify bomb-type materials without necessarily, overly invading our privacy.” — Isaac Yeffet

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“The thing that's changed the most has just been the rapid technology.” — Jeffrey Katzenberg

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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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“This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.” — Chris Wedge

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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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“I knew from the beginning that privacy was going to be a huge issue, especially with regard to applying Total Information Awareness in counterterrorism. Because if the technology development was successful, a logical place to apply it was inside the United States.” — John Poindexter

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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 it.” — Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

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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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“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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“The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.” — Douglas Trumbull

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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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“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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“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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