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“The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not. Our schools must begin instilling that wonder in our children again so that their generation will unite around the next great project of our time, whether it be declaring America energy independent or launching the next great technological revolution.”

“Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is a likely, or even possible, outcome of our technological development, shouldn't we proceed with great caution?”

Ifs Given Technology Development Asking Incredibles Outcomes Programming Technological Caution Extinction New Technology Coexist Technological Development

Author:Bill Joy

“I have no doubt that it is possible to give a new direction to technological development, a direction that shall lead it back to the real needs of man, and that also means: to the actual size of man. Man is small, and, therefore, small is beautiful.”

Men Needs Giving Mean Real Beautiful Doubt Development Size No Doubt Technological New Directions Small Is Beautiful Technological Development

Author:E. F. Schumacher

“Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.”

World Humans Use Might Able Together Community Innovation Working Together Technological

Author:Jamais Cascio

“Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.”

Ifs Certain Produce Amount Higher Limits Productions Agriculture Technological Acres Greenhouses

Author:Ralph Merkle

“Avatar is the most high tech film in terms of its execution, dealing with essentially a very low tech subject; which is our relationship with nature...and in fact the irony is that the film is about our relationship with nature and how our technological civilization has taken us several removes away from a truly natural existence and the consequences of that to us.”

Facts Film Term Natural Existence Taken Subjects Civilization Lows Consequence Irony Remove Execution Our Relationship Technological

Author:James Cameron

“A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that”

Hard Honest Judging Blame Clean Quitting Score Wrestling Bias Technological Contests Intervention Athletic Teammate Alibis

Book:Coaching Wrestling Successfully

Source: Coaching Wrestling Successfully

“Bitcoin is a technological tour de force”

Force Technological Bitcoin

Author:Bill Gates

“Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.”

“There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory.”

Humans Glory Fundamentals Solve Technological Dilemma Escaping

Author:Neil Postman

“I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-GM movement back in the mid 1990s, and that I thereby assisted in demonizing an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment.”

Important Used Environment Movement Benefits Sorry Technological

Author:Mark Lynas

“I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.”

Ifs Needs Book Function Invention Technological Better Off Reserved Textbooks Supplements Downloads Updates

Author:Art Spiegelman

“Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.”

Culture Games Sports Technology Example Limits Baseball Agree Ruins Bats Technological

Book:Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream

Source: Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream

“As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment.”

Able Company Environment Particular Revolution Balance Winner Loser Technological Winner And Loser New Environment

Author:Ralph Merkle

“As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.”

World Way Giving Loses Moral Progress Modern Pace Technological Compass Free Market Modern World Eugenics Moral Compass Technological Progress

Author:Sam Brownback

“Why is it that any technological and scientific achievement reached in the Middle East regions is translated into and portrayed as a threat to the Zionist regime? Is not scientific R&D one of the basic rights of nations?”

Nations Rights Middle Achievement Threat East Regions Regimes Middle East Technological Zionist Basic Rights

Author:Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

“Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society.”

Humans Force Leadership Creative Accounts Patterns Appreciation Manifestation Technological Representing Human Relations Human Relationships

Author:John Grierson

“I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe.”

Thinking Firsts Problem Deals Cutting Finals Pigs Technological Guinea Guinea Pigs

Author:Griffin Dunne

“End-users not technologies shape the market. Consequently marketers need to stay abreast not only of technological developments but also of the way people respond to them.”

People Way Needs Ends Technology Development Shapes Phones Users Technological Marketers Technological Development

Book:Mobile Marketing: The Message Revolution

Source: Mobile Marketing: The Message Revolution

“If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big upside of wanton material acquisition has traditionally been the way it drives technological progress-which, after all, helps keep societies strong. In the nineteenth century, Russia ans Germany had little choice about modernizing; in those days stasis invited conquest. But if societies no longer face conquest, breakneck technological advance is an offer they can refuse, and frugality a luxury people can afford.”

Source: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

“I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point of its planetary habitat combined with a certain level of technological ability... I think it is a built-in gene-directed drive for the spreading of the species and its continuation.”

“His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique.”

Mind Use Language Empty Technique Holes Substitutes Technological Jargon

Author:Richard Mitchell

“We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.”

Problem Spirit Suffering Moral Poverty Progress Mankind Creation Bridges Abundance Contrast Technological Scientific Progress

Book:In a Single Garment of Destiny

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny

“I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.”

Thinking Problem Causes Records Solutions India Environmental Track Corporate Technological Stance Fundamentalist Environmentalist Track Record Environmental Problems

Author:Jairam Ramesh

“The crisis is not in the outward technological advancement, but rather in the way we think, and the way we live, and the way we feel. I think that is where a revolution must take place.”

Thinking Way Feels Revolution Crisis Technological Advancement Technological Advancement

Book:The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1966-1967): Perennial Questions

Source: The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1966-1967): Perennial Questions

“It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it.”

World Feels Helping Dream Universe Wealth Poverty Violence New York Waste Indifference Technological Exploits Rotten Futility Hygiene Puritanism Senility

Book:America

Source: America

“Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology, our souls are shrunk and flattened by its pervasive rule. Any sense of wholeness and freedom can only return by the undoing of the massive division of labour at the heart of technological progress. This is the liberatory project in all its depth.”

Source: Future primitive: and other essays

“Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.”

Humanity Return Majors Innovation Technological

Book:Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness

Source: Facebook Nation: Total Information Awareness

“As far as the U.S. economy is concerned, I always believe that the U.S. economy is solidly based, not only in a material sense, but more importantly, the United States has the strength of scientific and technological talent, and managerial expertise.”

Believe States United United States Economy Talent Materials Concerned Technological Always Believe Expertise

Author:Wen Jiabao

“The social model of the Bolsheviks failed, as will any model that denies individual rights, intellectual freedom, and freedom of competing political parties. Without these freedoms and rights, there is no motivation for people to work. Such a system cannot be sustained, especially in light of the technological revolution of the information era.”

“Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.”

Firsts Results Management Mediocrity Technological Good To Great

Author:James C. Collins

“Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation.”

People Inspirational Needs Humans Persons Accepting Technology Environment Acceptance Broken Limits Built Innovation Limitation Disability Technological Disabled Built Environment

Author:Hugh Herr

“Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us.”

Trying Process Technology Fronts Goes On Solutions Backgrounds Rely Technological Always Trying Analogue Mythbusters

Author:Adam Savage

“Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter.”

World Education Technological Expendables

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man”

“Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.”

Men Humanity Powerful Environment Modern Evidence Capacity Destruction Agents Technological Conservation Reconstruction Modern Man Unleashed Quixotic

Author:George Will

“Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.”

Bigs Term Company Research Bubbles Technological Big Companies

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than we might at first imagine. Its primate sexual system with carnivore modifications has survived all the fantastic technological advances remarkably well.”

Firsts Wells Whole Might Sex Imagine Scene Species Fantastic Urges Loyal Looking Back Technological Survived Primates Modification Carnivores

Book:The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal

Source: The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal

“Spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara, which are as germane to our highly technological, computerized, cybernetic, nuclearpowered, mass media society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.”

Political Politics Technological Quotations Airports Jet Castro Runway Mao Rules For Radicals Stagecoaches

Author:Saul Alinsky

“All black people who are even minimally conscious, black people who have ever experienced Europe's technological power crusading in the vanguard of a civilizing mission, have profound feelings of inferiority and bitterly regret the fact that the Industrial Revolution did not agreeably commence in Dahomey or Dakar. Nothing is achieved by concealing this fact.”

People Facts Feelings Black Regret Revolution Conscious Europe Profound Missions Black People Technological Inferiority Industrial Revolution Concealing All Black Vanguard

Author:Lewis Nkosi

“A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible that the future of human civilization depends on the receipt of interstellar messages.”

Humans Shows Space Depends Walking Civilization Moon Messages Adolescence Technological Star Gazing Human Civilization Receipts Interstellar

Author:Carl Sagan

“We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our resources and technological reach to be the first generation in human history to finally cross this threshold, and to learn if there is life of any kind beyond Earth.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Kind Earth Life Is Space Generations Walking Moon Resources Crosses Neighborhood Exploration Technological Galaxy Human History Space Exploration Threshold Star Gazing

Author:Sara Seager

“Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any of the risks on Earth. Will this happen before our technological civilization disintegrates, leaving this as a might-have-been? Will the self-sustaining space communities be established before a catastrophe sets back the prospect of any such enterprise, perhaps foreclosing it forever? We live at what could be a defining moment for the cosmos.”

“One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine -- now a satsuma or clementine -- appears de-pipped months before Christmas.”

Firsts Moments Past Joy Lost Flower Months Civilization Fruit Excitement Technological Arrivals Cherries Strawberries Daffodil Precious Moments Tangerines Clementines

Author:Derek Jarman

“Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly.”

Done Given Economic Fallen Technological

Author:Alan Dean Foster

“I am a technological activist. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of basic human rights: to free speech, to use any information and technology, to purchase and use recreational drugs, to enjoy and purchase so-called 'vices', to be free of intruders, and to privacy.”

“There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.”

Years Has Beens Lasts America Three Growth Four Economic Add Productivity California Four Years Technological Privileged Economic Growth

Author:Gray Davis

“The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.”

“In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference?”

Thinking Differences Bears Making A Difference Global Warming Technological

Author:Paul Allen

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