Quotes About Technology

Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.

The best thing to do is always keep randomly generated passwords everywhere and use a password tool to manage it, and then you don't have to remember those passwords at all, just the master password that unlocks the database.

When I'm out and about, I'll text or email myself from my phone. A smart phone is a great tool for a writer.

There is this group of people who love innovation. Those people want to innovate, and they think the Internet is a wonderful tool for innovation, which is true. But you also have to remember that much of that innovation is constrained within the realities of the foreign policy.

I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist.

Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with other peoples' agendas? Concretely: can I write my own client to present a filtered view of the Facebook stream, or have other people do that for me?

The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.

I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me.

Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool.

What's fantastic is that there's a real growing appreciation for performance-capture technology as a tool for acting.

There is nothing wrong with Facebook in itself, except that it is not a very good tool to express the quality of your relationships.

We're literally just beginning to learn how to use satellites to find sites. More and more people are realizing there's this incredible tool.

It's an important tool to focus where we're excavating. It gives us a much bigger perspective on archaeological sites. We have to think bigger, and that's what the satellites allow us to do.

Replacing human vision is more than just a tool: we need to understand how that affects the brain.

The Internet opens up so many doors. It's a phenomenal tool for education but also a way for people to be scary and dangerous. We're living in a world where we can be hacked and exposed.

Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.

Motion capture has become very specialized but also still just a tool of filmmaking.

A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and analyzing. This tool brings with it assumptions about structuredness, about defined interfaces being better. Computers abhor error.

There's no question in my mind of the value in technology in fueling young minds. Like any other tool, if you simply throw it in the classroom and don't consider how best to take advantage of that tool, and you try the old ways with a new piece of technology on the desk, it's no panacea.

You can get more stuff done with Facebook than any other tool that we know of, and we'd like to make that available to the whole world.

Each new tool we create ends an old relationship with the world and starts a new one. And we're changed by that relationship, inevitably. It changes the way we live, changes our patterns, changes our social organization.

The selfie is a powerful tool, but it can also be dangerous, and I am fascinated with the process of it because there is a level of self-monitoring.

Access to the Internet is an essential tool for equipping students with 21st century skills.