Quotes About Influence

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

In fact, the mothers of all her girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures. Really, it took a lot of sense to cultivate and hold such a pose.

Well--you know how the Wilkes are. They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it's because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite a store by such things.

Scarlett, I'm a bad influence on you and if you have any sense you will send me packing - if you can. I'm very hard to get rid of. But I'm bad for you.

Influence is everything, and guilt or innocence merely an academic question.

The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button.

It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.

Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull.

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

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.

The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.

Persuading people through technology is the next social revolution. Facebook demonstrates just how powerful it will be.

By about the year 2000 Communist China will be a "superpower" built by American technology and skill.

Every action and decision we take – or don't – ripples into the future. For the first time we have the capability, the technology, and the knowledge to direct these ripples.

True advocacy is born from culture, not technology or marketing.

Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.

All music is based in one way or the other, or influenced through the ages, on technology.

Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning.

The Civic University operates on a global scale but uses its location to form its identity.

Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny.

First click attribution is akin to giving my first girlfriend 100% of the credit for me marrying my wife.

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

Technology shapes society and society shapes technology.