Quotes About Technology

America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest variety and greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves.

The television, iPod, and Internet have trespassed upon the innocence of America's children, while preoccupied mothers and dispassionate fathers stare aghast wondering what went wrong. They don't stop to think of their own contributions to the persuasions influencing their children. After all, where do kids as young as elementary age get money to rent rock videos and the latest rap DVDs?

Do you know what nearly all the sociologists say today in their study of young people? The greatest problem facing young people today is not sex—it is boredom.

Modern war is the most highly developed of all sciences. We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them.

Don't take your Bible for granted! For centuries ordinary believers had no access to the Bible; Bibles had to be painstakingly copied by hand and were very expensive. The only access most people had to the Bible was by hearing it read in church. The invention of the printing press changed all that, however, and today the Bible is readily available in multiple translations and hundreds of languages around the world.

To me, it all comes down to things being character-driven. It's hard for me to look beyond that. CG and all this cool stuff - so be it. But to me, it pretty much begins and ends with character-driven plots rather than technologically-driven plots.

said, "Those are cool. I have an idea." He brought me over to his desktop to explain. Together we looked at his buddy list on AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). There was a little feature called Status. It was there so you could say that you were away from your desk or out to lunch, and so on, so people would know why you weren't responding to their messages.

We all have many different options for contacting people electronically: email, text, IMs, Tweets. There is a time and a place for each. When a plane lands in the Hudson in front of you, that's a Tweet. That's the ultimate Tweet. You don't email a friend that. You tweet it.

After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.

If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions.

You know why we don't have solar energy? It's because the sun goes away each day, and it doesn't tell us where it's going!

We must redefine what radical means. We're living through a technology revolution which is the 21st-century equivalent of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution. It will change everything and therefore everything should change including radical reorientation of government. This is the context in which we tackle inequality, promote social justice and redistribute power.

Technology is changing the way we live and we work and we think. It's going to transform the world, and yet I think there is an alarming sort of disconnect between the world of public policy-making, and the world of technology.

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The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts Its click Creates perpetual motion ("The Head")

Everybody tells me what a timesaver the Internet is, and how they can't believe they ever got along without it. And I know what they mean, but every time I use it I wind up wondering what people did with their spare time before computers came along to suck it all up.

The notion that bigger—and more—is better has so pervaded our culture that most people assume all entrepreneurs want to capitalize on every business opportunity, grow their companies as fast as they can, and build the next Google or Facebook.

circumstances change. Industries change. Technologies change. And what may once have been a sound business model can become unsound faster than anyone could have imagined. During the transition, moreover, the company is likely to be confronted with unpleasant choices, mainly because its culture has been built around a business model that is no longer sustainable.

ECCO was still spending only 5 percent of its revenues on engineering, as compared to 3 percent a decade earlier. That was possible because of the dramatic increase in productivity that accompanied the changes. In 1994, the company had had $70,000 in sales per employee. By 2004, the figure had more than doubled to $156,000 in sales per employee. At the same time, technological advances allowed the company to respond more quickly to customers needs, and to do it at a dramatically lower cost.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

The Internet is a great way to get on the net.

In the end, what gets people through a physical or emotional crisis is not new technology or medication. These things help, of course. But it's faith that gives you the strength to endure- faith that won't allow you to give up; faith that manifests itself in a ferocious determination to take the next step - the one that everyone says is impossible.

The radio makes hideous sounds.