841 private quotes tagged technology

“I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.” — Iain Banks

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“Though we do need more women to graduate with technical degrees, I always like to remind women that you don't need to have science or technology degrees to build a career in tech.” — Susan Wojcicki

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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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“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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“I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.” — Richard Powers

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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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“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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“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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“I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.” — Sarah Zettel

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“The one thing that advances a society is not technology or so-called development it's love - that one principle.” — Tom Shadyac

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“I never really did sports growing up. Maybe that's why they intrigue me. The technology that goes into that clothing is steps ahead, so it's always been something I look towards.” — Alexander Wang

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“The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.” — John Perry Barlow

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“Refuse to accept the belief that your professional relevance, career success or financial security turns on the next update on the latest technology. Sometimes it's good to put the paddle down and just let the canoe glide.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens.” — Tim Holden

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“The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.” — Andrew Brown

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“Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.” — J. G. Ballard

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“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” — Arthur C. Clarke

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“You affect the world by what you browse.” — Tim Berners Lee

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“We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.” — John Naisbitt

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“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.” — Gertrude Stein

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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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“Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.” — Andy Grove

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“Technology has to be invented or adopted.” — Jared Diamond

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“Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen.” — Larry Niven

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“If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?” — Matt Drudge

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