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Quotes About Technology

Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.
~ Margaret Wertheim
Apple has an opening to say, 'The tools we are selling to you will enable you to do things rather than do things for you.' Google's vision is tools that will do things for you.
~ Evgeny Morozov
Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.
~ Ray Kurzweil
In general, good tools for staying in sync just haven't been built and made available to the world.
~ Justin Rosenstein
Starting early and getting girls on computers, tinkering and playing with technology, games and new tools, is extremely important for bridging the gender divide that exists now in computer science and in technology.
~ Beth Simone Noveck
I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
~ J. I. Packer
I think filmmakers in general are, as the tools become more and more advanced, you're able to tell stories in a way that I think is more realistic. The technology just wasn't there up until pretty recently, and it takes a bit of time for the normal artistic way of approaching something to become a mainstream thing.
~ Neill Blomkamp
Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends.
~ Jeremy Stoppelman
We have new tools that can give the audience a sense of not only being there, which is the key element in an IMAX film, but also seeing things in a way that they won't see on television or in feature films.
~ Greg MacGillivray
The ability to save automatically is among the most powerful tools available to us.
~ Sendhil Mullainathan
Consumer technology and medical tools have been created to benefit our daily lives. Without self-regulation, though, the industry could be at risk of potentially halting years of innovation and stunting growth in this field.
~ Ariel Garten
We've been finding that when you empower engineers, scientists, and coders, they respond by creating new tools to empower physicians, patients, and parents.
~ Kathleen Sebelius
The same basic tools we've used for thousands of years to connect with people, to draw them in and to hold their attention will always work, even if we're telling our stories 140 characters at a time.
~ Shawn Amos
We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.
~ Ryan Holmes
Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world.
~ Tony Fadell
I am a child of digital generation. I have done most of the records with Rilo Kiley on computers, on Pro Tools or other digital programs.
~ Jenny Lewis
In the past, when we've tried gene therapy, we haven't had tools that have allowed targeted gene correction.
~ Jennifer Doudna
There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.
~ Thomas Bangalter
Entrepreneurs and innovators across the country are developing and deploying new data-powered IT tools to help clinicians succeed at delivering better care at lower cost.
~ Todd Park
A movie like 'Transcendence' may be pertinent in its political reverberations of all computer data held in a cloud and monitored by the NSA, but it also rails against the tools its makers so artfully employ.
~ Richard Corliss
The Internet has got great tools. How we lived without Google all those years I don't know.
~ Pete Hamill
Changing professional expectations and technological tools have created an impossibility of balancing work and life.
~ Rebecca Traister
Yes, the disruption of the Internet can be blamed for the destruction of the business model that once made journalism a thriving, well-paying enterprise, but it has also created an array of new tools for reporting. Somebody will eventually figure out how to make online newspapers profitable - I hope.
~ David Horsey
The real use of AI in industry is generally for very narrow pattern-matchers - a better search algorithm, an object-detection algorithm, etc. These things are tools which we can use - for good or evil. But they're nothing like self-aware beings.
~ Ramez Naam