“The lessons of September 11 are that if we allow law enforcement to do their work free of political interference, if we give them adequate resources and modern technologies, we can protect our citizens without intruding on our liberties.” IfsGivingLawPoliticalLibertyTechnologyModernCitizensLessonsProtectResourcesSeptemberLaw EnforcementEnforcementAdequateSeptember 11InterferenceModern Technology Author:Lucille Roybal-Allard
“Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die.” PeopleIfsGivingSeemsActionLastsBeautifulDiesRealizingEnemyTechnologyWillingGiving UpModelsProfitAlliesBeautiful Things Author:Justin Sane
“Once you change the technology - from a film camera to a video camera, or from an 8-mm camera to 16 mm - you change completely the content. With 8 mm, a leaf on a tree will be made up of maybe four grains. So it's very impressionistic, almost like Seurat. If you switch to 16 mm, the technology gives you hundreds of grains on that leaf.” IfsGivingMadeFilmTechnologyFourTreeCamerasVideoGrainLeafsVideo Cameras Author:Jonas Mekas
“For AERO, I wanted to revisit in 5.1 some existing tracks in order to give them that space I had imagined when I originally composed them, and also to compose some new tracks for this new technology. All of the existing tracks in AERO have been performed with the original instruments, re-recorded and spatially arranged/spatialised for this new dimensional sound experience without betraying their very essence.” GivingHas BeensWantedOrderSoundSpaceTechnologyEssenceOriginalsInstrumentsTrackBetrayNew Technology Author:Jean Michel Jarre
“I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.” GivingIdeasTechnologyPersonalityMachines Author:J. J. Abrams
“I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.” ThinkingWantGivingHumansFactsMightTermTechnologyProudWeaponsPicksInventionHuman LifeItemsDoveScience And TechnologyEmblems Author:Thomas A. Edison
“Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade leverage Amazon's existing 'Search Inside the Book' technology to give customers unusual flexibility in how they buy and read books, .. In collaboration with our publishing partners, we're working hard to make the world's books instantly accessible anytime and anywhere.” WorldGivingBookHardTechnologyPagesCustomersPartnersCollaborationUnusualPublishingFlexibilityAmazon Author:Jeff Bezos
“So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'” ThinkingWantLifeNeedsGivingSaidPayTechnologyHavensCollegeBuiltSillyHeyDumbThey SaidPredictionsSalaryNeed YouFundingAmazing ThingsCrazy IdeasDon't Need YouInventing ThingsAtari Author:Steve Jobs
“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.” PeopleGivingShouldTodayYoungGrowsEducationTeachTechnologyLearningCuttingTeachingFlowerPlantEducationalSunshineSchoolingSelf EducationSchooledHomeschoolingGreat EducationTeaching And LearningEducation And TeachersSchools And EducationLife LearningSchool EducationGreat EducationalTeaching And EducationTeaching EducationSchool LifeTeaching LearningChildren LearningInspirational TeacherTeacher And StudentGreat TeachingQuality EducationGood TeachingChildren EducationStudents And EducationStudent LearningEducation For AllTeaching StudentsRelated To EducationTeachers Learning From StudentsLife TeachesWhat Is EducationGreat SchoolsLearning And GrowingSpecial EducationModern EducationEffective TeacherPhysical EducationYoung StudentsTechnology And EducationEducation TodayEffective TeachingTechnology In EducationLife Teaching Author:John W. Gardner