Quotes About Technology

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

The multinational corporation and international production reflect a world in which capital and technology have become increasingly mobile, while labor has remained relatively immobile.

Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have.

I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you.

As devices multiply and usage changes, many users coming online today may never use a desktop machine, it becomes more and more important to ensure that people can access all of their stuff anywhere.

So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.

I consider myself a 3-D philosopher. I am not a designer at all. I studied aerodynamics, I studied philosophy, I studied sculpture. High technology on one side, and on the other side, art.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs.

Technology works best when it facilitates human hope, activism, engagement & intervention.

If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content.

Overall, OS/2's problems fall into two categories: IBM and Microsoft.

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.

The technology life cycle has three stages: Hype, disillusionment, and application.

I do not think that there is a reputable scientist on this planet who would advocate using this technology to generate a human child as was just announced.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

To expect alien technology to be just a few decades ahead of ours is too incredible to be taken seriously.