841 private quotes tagged technology

“Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.” — Leon Kass

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“Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?” — Al Boliska

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“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.” — Jean Arp

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“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.” — Alfred North Whitehead

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“The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.” — Edward R. Murrow

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“Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster.” — Andy Grove

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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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“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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“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.” — Omar N. Bradley

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“Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community.” — Simon Mainwaring

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“For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.” — Wernher von Braun

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“There are three roads to ruin women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.” — Georges Pompidou

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“Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate.” — Alvin Toffler

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“The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.” — Scott McNealy

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“To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.” — Keith Richards

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“It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.” — Clive James

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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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“I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.” — Deepak Chopra

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“Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.” — Marc Andreessen

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“We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.” — Scott Cook

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“I think people have a vague sense that the television system is changing.” — Michael K. Powell

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“The research rat of the future allows experimentation without manipulation of the real world. This is the cutting edge of modeling technology.” — John Spencer

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“Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.” — Stewart Alsop

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“The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.” — Harvey Weinstein

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“Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you can't really blame anything on the technology. It's just the way people use it, and it always has been.” — Steve Martin

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