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“We lost our way a long time ago with technology. Just because something is an advancement by going digital - that was a huge (expletive) mistake. It was a way for people to make money, but it sure didn't improve sound or quality of record making. It made it faster, cheaper, but it isn't as durable.”

People Way Long Made Lost Sound Mistake Quality Technology Records Huge Long Time Made It Faster Making Money Digital Advancement Long Time Ago Cheaper

Author:John Mellencamp

“I remember the first time I saw a CD, a technology guy brought one to my house and said we will be able to sell millions and millions of players, and people will have to restock their record collections. It was all about money. It was all about how much money we would make, "we" being "him."”

People Firsts Said Able Remember Guy House Millions Technology Records Saws Player First Time Sells Collections Cds

Author:John Mellencamp

“For an American president to be aiding America's enemy in developing nuclear weapons technology is unprecedented, absolutely.”

America President Enemy Technology Weapons Nuclear Developing Nuclear Weapons Unprecedented American President

Author:Liz Cheney

“Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.”

Literature Technology

Author:Cynthia Ozick

“I think what a lot of people see as unique is using different technology or different techniques [to make games], but I feel like, as long as you have a core that's unlike others, that's what 'unique' is.”

People Thinking Feels Long Different Games Technology Unique Technique Core

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“We can be using the same kind of technology, the same kind of techniques, but when we use it, we get something different.”

Kind Different Use Technology Technique

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“Technology's become the great prism for what's going on in the world.”

World Technology Prisms

Author:Mike Jackson

“There's just so much negativity that surrounds sub-cultures of people in the USA, and I think the fact that technology has caught up, we're going to capture a lot of these moments and share them with the world.”

People Thinking World Moments Facts Culture Technology Share Caught Usa Surround Capture Negativity Caught Up

Author:Mike Jackson

“I remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too complicated." I think, yeah, but I remember being a kid and holding up a new piece of technology that was made in the '80s and my grandparents going, "Oh, it's too complicated." It didn't seem complicated to me.”

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Author:Dan Mangan

“It is well known that Russia has many interesting and promising developments in the military-technical sphere. We are ready to deliver the needed equipment and ready for joint cooperation in arms production with Brazilian specialists. This is an area that is very closely linked to high technology in general. In this respect, we hope to develop closer cooperation between the scientific communities in our two countries.”

“American women are so fortunate. When I got married, all I wanted in the world was a dryer so I didn't have to hang up my diapers. And now women have paper diapers and all sorts of conveniences in the home. And it is the man and the technology that has made the home such a pleasant place for women to be.”

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Author:Phyllis Schlafly

“More connections to more devices means more vulnerabilities.”

Mean Technology Internet Connections Vulnerability Devices

Author:Marc Goodman

“A search engine can determine who shall live and who shall die.”

Inspiration Motivation Dies Technology Internet Determine Engines Search Engine

Author:Marc Goodman

“All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.”

Long Inspiration Motivation Technology Drug Members Police Phones Cells Officers Gang Cell Phone Dealer Police Officer Drug Dealers Gang Members

Author:Marc Goodman

“We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill.”

People Inspiration Motivation Race Technology Arms Ill Dawn Technological Arms Race

Book:Future Crimes: Inside The Digital Underground and the Battle For Our Connected World

Source: Future Crimes: Inside The Digital Underground and the Battle For Our Connected World

“What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart.”

“Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we've been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs locked within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them.”

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Author:Doc Childre

“Learning how to access a continuity of common sense can be one of your most efficient accomplishments in this decade. Can you imagine "common sense" surpassing science and technology in the quest to unravel the human stress mess? In time, society will have a new measure for confirming truth. It's inside the people-not at the mercy of current scientific methodology. Let scientists facilitate discovery, but not invent your inner truth.”

“If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities.”

Ifs Technology Possibility Internet Free Speech Definite New Technology

Author:Tim Jackson

“We're so lucky to be living in this day and age when technology - the tools to tell our stories - is so accessible. However, content still reigns supreme. So find your voice, your unique voice, it's there inside of you. Find it, define it, write it down on paper, hone it, and clarify it. Everything else is just technology which will help you tell your story.”

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Author:Ramona S. Diaz

“I shot a lot of stuff that no one will ever see. That was my student work. What also happened was there was a big jump in technology.”

Bigs Stuff Technology Happened Students Shots

Author:Alex Stapleton

“The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.”

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Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL

“First they use technology to poison the planet, then they develop it further to escape from the planet they have poisoned.”

Firsts Use Technology Planets Poison

Author:N. Katherine Hayles

“Technology is an inseparable part of humanity and for true progress to occur, the two must walk hand in hand, with neither one acting as servant to the other.”

Two Hands Humanity Walks Acting Technology Progress Servant Inseparable Hand In Hand

Author:Michael Dertouzos

“My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart. I love technology and I can handle myself around a computer.”

I Can Technology Mom Computer Smart My Mom Handle Chemist

Author:Lucas Till

“Everything - design and technology and materials - has changed since the World Trade Center was built. A lot of it has to do with computers, which allow us to be far more efficient as well as structurally sound.”

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Author:Frank Gehry

“One of the reasons the United States has actually been reducing its emissions in recent years is actually that there's been a boom in natural gas. It's displacing coal. It emits less carbon dioxide when you burn it. This is not really an Obama policy. It's just something that happened because of technology and the free market.”

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Author:Chris Mooney

“I can't say I'm particularly happy about all the spam and the viruses and the equivalent that we see on the Net, but I think technology can deal with many of the problems that we're now seeing, whether it's filtering or whatever, and laws may help a lot.”

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Author:Robert E. Kahn

“I don't tend to use technology all that much. Of course, I can't avoid it - it's called the telephone nowadays. And I do a certain amount of email, work-related primarily, on it. But I don't do a lot of looking for things online.”

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Author:Melissa Leo

“I saw how vulnerable we all are and how exposed we all are and how this is an issue that affects everyone who owns a piece of technology. Which is certainly most people in this country.”

People Country Technology Issues Saws Pieces Vulnerable Exposed

Author:Zachary Quinto

“Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars.”

May Reality Light Universe Stars Technology Century Speed Faster Dimensions Time Travel Parallels Millennium Warp Speed Of Light Parallel Universe

Author:Michio Kaku

“The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door.”

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Author:Michio Kaku

“Technology provides means for expression and interchange and so on, so yes it should be free and open, but there are a lot of constraints on how its used.”

Should Mean Used Technology Expression Constraints Interchange

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I think there are all kinds of intrusions into private rights that make use of contemporary technology.”

Thinking Kind Use Technology Rights Contemporary All Kinds Intrusion

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Technology can be used that way and it can also be used in other ways.”

Way Used Technology

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Technology can also be used so that private individuals will have access to the way centralized decisions are being made.”

Way Made Used Individual Decision Technology Access

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents and written a lot about them. In fact, anybody who's worked through the declassified record can see very clearly that the reason for classification is very rarely to protect the state or the society from enemies. Most of the time it is to protect the state from its citizens, so they don't know what the government is doing.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“There is little doubt that a significant part of any serious solution will require advances of technology, but that can only be part of the solution. Other major changes are necessary.”

Littles Technology Doubt Serious Majors Solutions Significant Major Change

Author:Noam Chomsky

“The first reaction to trauma is denial, then comes anger and finally, acceptance. I think the US is still between denial and anger, and I hope we will reach acceptance because almost perversely, right now, only the US has the technology that is needed for global economic change.”

Thinking Firsts Stills Technology Economic Acceptance Needed Right Now Trauma Reactions Denial Economic Change

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“Technology is a many-headed monster and perhaps it would be better to regress to a safer past and avoid technological change; it is tempting to think like that.”

Thinking Would Be Past Technology Monsters Technological Tempting Technological Change

Author:Graciela Chichilnisky

“CO2 from air can replace petroleum: it can produce plastics and acetate, it can produce carbon fibers that replace metals and clean hydrocarbons, such as synthetic gasoline. We can use CO2 to desalinate water, enhance the production of vegetables and fruit in greenhouses, carbonate our beverages and produce biofertilizers that enhance the productivity of the soil without poisoning it. Carbon negative technology is absolutely needed now.”

“Technology still freaks me out a bit.”

Stills Bits Technology Freak

Author:Margot Robbie

“Technology has such an impact on libraries in the last 20 years, and the last 10 years in particular.”

Years Lasts Technology Particular Impact Library

Author:Carla Hayden

“The disruption caused by globalization and technology (what Tom Friedman calls hyperconnectedness) will be around for the rest of our professional lives.”

Technology Toms Globalization Disruption Professional Life

Author:Lewis Schiff

“Like most technology, the internet has mixed effects. It's a neutral instrument.”

Technology Effects Internet Instruments

Author:Noam Chomsky

“[Internet] is kind of like a hammer. The technology itself doesn't determine how its used. It depends on the social, cultural and economic context in which the technology is made available.”

Kind Made Used Social Technology Economic Depends Internet Determine Available Hammers

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Its true that contemporary technology permits decentralization, it also permits centralization. It depends on how you use the technology.”

Use Technology Depends Contemporary Permit Centralization Decentralization

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Contemporary technology could be used to eliminate ownership and management of corporations. It could be used to provide - lets say Apple computers. In principle information technology could be used to provide direct information to the work force on the ground so that they could democratically decide what the company would do, eliminating the role of management. It could be used for that. People aren't developing technology for that purpose.”

“Those are possibilities for technology, which don't tend to be used, because of the way power is concentrated. There are all kinds of possibilities, including for coercion. In China, technology is used to control and coerce. Here too, to an extent, but not to that extent.”

Way Kind Used Technology Possibility Including China All Kinds Coercion Coerce

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Desktop publishing was a big innovation that meant small groups or even poor societies could do their own publication without the capital investment in a major printing press. That's a big difference. Same is true of more advanced technologies - it can offer plenty of liberatory possibilities - can - but whether it does or not or whether it serves for coercion depends on socioeconomic decisions.”

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