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Quotes About Influence

The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision in man's conception of the universe and his relation to it
~ Fritjof Capra
Sometimes you might think the machines we worship make all the chief appointments, promoting the human beings who seem closest to them.
~ J. B. Priestley
I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.
~ Nicholas G. Carr
Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature
~ Al Gore
Political technology determines political success.
~ Morton Blackwell
It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
~ Terence McKenna
The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.
~ Steve Jobs
I don't really find a problem with technology or television, or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.
~ Jason Bateman
We live in an age where technology is so powerful that we can make change without even leaving our computers or cell phones.
~ Sadie Calvano
Technology has brought us to a point in which hundreds of millions if not billions of people have a voice, each voice can now be heard.
~ Jeff Pulver
Technology brought in the mass media and technology is now taking it away.
~ David Hockney
World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.
~ Barry Commoner
Technology is not neutral.
~ Godfrey Reggio
The leverage Wall Street has to change the world is greater than technology. At a very young age, you're in the room with CEOs, making critical decisions. It should be exciting. It is exciting.
~ Ken Moelis
With technology today, companies are less in control of their brand
~ Blake Mycoskie
I think that the massive, overarching, interconnected systems of technology tend to make us a little insecure, somewhat pliable, and susceptible to half-beliefs.
~ Don DeLillo
All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.
~ Godfrey Reggio
I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.
~ Jim Balsillie
Steve Jobs was a visionary in the technology and telecom community. His contributions to innovating communications have forever changed our industry and our lives. He will be greatly missed.
~ Steve Largent
We are products not of our technologies, but of our choices about how to use them.
~ Mal Fletcher
The new media and technologies by which we amplify and extend ourselves constitute huge collective surgery carried out on the social body with complete disregard for antiseptics.
~ Marshall McLuhan
[Internet] is kind of like a hammer. The technology itself doesn't determine how its used. It depends on the social, cultural and economic context in which the technology is made available.
~ Noam Chomsky
Technologies can be liberating, but it can also be a tool of coercion and control.
~ Noam Chomsky
Yes, but does Maine have anything to SAY to Florida?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson