Quotes About Impact

Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum.

When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make?

Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.

we should be careful not to let machinery swamp life. That we should be sure, when we are confronted with a fresh mechanical contrivance, that we are not losing more than we gain by adopting it.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

There's a lot that can be done for people who are using technology in a better way.

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

Innovation applied across the board of development is having a huge impact, and can have more. All sorts of technology can provide shortcuts, can overcome obstacles which once seemed insuperable.

What works on the net works for people in general. The net has very little to do with technology, what matters is how people use the technology.

I am here on behalf of all the patients that I have ever met, all the ones I haven't met. This is about letting patients play a more active role ... in fixing health care.

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

I think the new technologies have become pervasive in our society, such as cellphones and the internet, and they've insidiously affected our personal sense of space and belonging.

Technology is not neutral.

Technology can do amazing things for us. It's something we need to keep an eye on.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity.

I think in many ways, the texture of technology actually diminishes human beings. It doesn't augment them.

Be wary of technology; it is often merely an improved means to an unimproved end.

I feel very fortunate to have been sort of a tiny instigator, using technology for good.

New technologies are a good thing but we must consider how they will impact on us so that, when they become achievable, they aren't allowed to run amok.

In the area of robotics and in the area of connectivity, technology is offering us things that we are vulnerable to - and we have to have a better response than a shrug.

You see a wave of populism in the world. There is something wrong. This maybe because of technology.