Best Technology Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Mobile is the perfect example of what is enabling economic growth in the technology sector.”

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“Technology has come a long way since PayPal.”

“I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.”

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Author:Richard Louv

“I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.”

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Author:Aaron Levie

“The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.”

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Author:Ralph Merkle

“Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.”

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Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.”

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Author:Stella McCartney

“Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.”

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Author:Chris O'Dowd

“Don't underestimate questions from the crowd; technology has made voters more informed than ever.”

Made Technology Crowds Voters Underestimate

Author:Ron Fournier

“We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.”

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Author:Ellen Ochoa

“I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.”

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Author:Aaron Levie

“If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives.”

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Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“I think technology has changed America, not any one organization. Technology is taking the power away from the few. There'll be a lot more choices, and good people who are doing serious stuff will survive and there'll be a lot more voices, and that is very healthy.”

People Thinking America Choices Stuff Voice Technology Changed Serious Healthy Organization Good People

Author:Brian Lamb

“Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company - from a one-person agency to a small firm, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspect of Internet-based businesses.”

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Author:Marc Ostrofsky

“No one has ever been able to stop the process and evolution of technology, not even I.B.M. That is going to continue. Those who grab it and move ahead with it will determine the future in this industry.”

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Author:Eckhard Pfeiffer

“I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.”

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Author:John S. Pistole

“We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.”

“I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.”

Thinking Littles Enjoy Technology Gone Nice Mystery Preserves Privacy

Author:Maggie Q

“I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.”

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Author:Ian Rankin

“I would absolutely love to go back to the simplicity of the '80s, where there wasn't texting, social media, iPhones, or smartphones. I love the fact that you would go home and check your messages. I'm not well suited to the world of modern technology.”

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Author:Matthew Rhys

“Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.”

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Author:Anders Fogh Rasmussen

“I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.”

“Technology has changed, and we need to figure out how to improve the archaic way of what makes a hit, or how to determine how many viewers are watching beyond some people with Nielsen boxes in a small percentage of homes in random areas.”

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Author:Jim Rash

“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.”

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Author:Lucille Roybal-Allard

“Weapons of mass destruction aren't pulled out of a black hat like a white rabbit at a magic show. They're produced in factories. There's science and technology involved. They're not produced in a hole in the ground or in a basement.”

“For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore.”

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Author:Lorene Scafaria

“Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.”

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Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.”

People Technology Investment Batteries

Author:Donald Sadoway

“I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.”

Way Problem Community Technology Futurist

Author:Hal Sparks

“When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I've been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, "I don't want to buy that." There's a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences.”

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Author:Howard Stringer

“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.”

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Author:Justin Sane

“An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.”

“Humanity actually has the gall to feel they are more advanced than they were; technology somehow defines intelligence. If technology enables you to kill more people, that doesn't define intelligence. An intelligent species survives.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is impossible to work in information technology without also engaging in social engineering.”

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Author:Jaron Lanier

“Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.”

Made Causes Simple Technology Made It Efficient Banking Good Causes

Author:Mark Skousen

“In fact, I argue that the future of advertising, whatever the technology, will be to associate each brand with one word. This is one word equity. It's the modern equivalent of having the best site on the high street, except the location is in the mind.”

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Author:Maurice Saatchi

“Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks.”

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Author:Nicholas Stern

“I have a really deep belief that we create technologies to empower ourselves. We've invented a lot of technology that just makes us all faster and better, and I'm generally a big fan of this. I just want to make sure that this technology stays subservient to people. People are the number one entity there is on this planet.”

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Author:Sebastian Thrun

“We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.”

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Author:Sebastian Thrun

“People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a lot more limited than people think. And the question is why.”

People Thinking Want Believe Has Beens Technology Progress Broken Areas Artificial Intelligence Artificial Robotics Nanotechnology

Author:Peter Thiel

“With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.”

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Author:Tom Udall

“Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.”

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Author:Susan Wojcicki

“Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.”

People Wells Technology Behave

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.”

Thinking Trying Hard Force Technology Figures Wind Our Society Gale

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in 'Amped' about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we're really going to deal with soon.”

Believe Body Deals Technology Issues Raised

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful.”

People Want Trying Kind Problem Technology Addresses Helpful Remedy Scientology Personal Problems

Author:Lawrence Wright

“Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.”

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Author:Daniel Yergin

“My goals over the decade include to develop new drugs to treat intractable diseases by using iPS cell technology and to conduct clinical trials using it on a few patients with Parkinson's diseases, diabetes or blood diseases.”

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Author:Shinya Yamanaka

“Apple has long been a leading innovator of mobile technology; I myself own an iPhone.”

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Author:Al Franken

“V-Day...if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for "your loved one" I think it's quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It's all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.”

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