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Quotes About Adaptation

Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.
~ David Bohm
Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches: Banality soothes our nerves.
~ Alan Perlis
A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
~ Iqbal Quadir
Always, in your career and personal life, be evolving with technology.
~ Pete Cashmore
By the year 2000, all Americans must be able to set the clocks on their VCRs.
~ George H. W. Bush
I'm a total luddite when it comes to technology. Pretending I know how to use a computer is a challenge.
~ Ben Schnetzer
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
The Internet is ultimately about innovation and integration, but you don't get the innovation unless you integrate Web technology into the processes by which you run your business.
~ Louis V. Gerstner, Jr.
There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.
~ Tom Clancy
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology
~ Clifford D. Simak
Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
~ Douglas Gwyn
Technology will move faster than governments, so don't legislate before you understand the consequences.
~ Eric Schmidt
Most people who sneer at technology would starve to death if the engineering infrastructure were removed.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.
~ Bernard Stiegler, Acting Out
I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.
~ Nicolas Cage
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.
~ Ralph Merkle
Technology shapes society and society shapes technology.
~ Robert Winthrop White
When teaching a rapidly changing technology, perspective is more important than content.
~ Richard E. Pattis
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.
~ Heather Donahue
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.
~ Bruce Boxleitner
Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.
~ Charles A. Reich
I think if you look back through the intellectual history of human beings you can trace the way that intellectual technologies influence the way we think.
~ Nicholas G. Carr
Ministry is just ZZ Top with technology.
~ Al Jourgensen
If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
~ Larry Gelbart