841 private quotes tagged technology

“Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.” — Freeman Dyson

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“Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line.” — Andy Grove

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“I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying.” — Marc Andreessen

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“A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted.” — Kevin Mitnick

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“What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.” — Barry Commoner

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“Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.” — Barry Diller

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“I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.” — John Hench

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“Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.” — Major Owens

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“Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today.” — Arthur Erickson

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“There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.” — Tom Clancy

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“I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology it's solved by people.” — Patricia Cornwell

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“If your goal is anything but profitability - if it's to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader - you'll hit problems.” — Michael Porter

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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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“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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“Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive and dangerous. The false belief that a safety net of sophisticated drugs and machines stretches below us, permitting risky or lazy lifestyle choices, has undermined our spirit of self-reliance.” — Andrew Weil

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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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“In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.” — Ronnie Dunn

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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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“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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“Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.” — Tim Berners Lee

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“I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.” — Hal Sparks

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

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“I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.” — Bram Cohen

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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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