“Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me.” UseHandsEyeMy OwnForgetTechnologyLet MeCraftsman Author:Alexander McQueen
“Our assaults on the ecosystem are so powerful, so numerous, so finely interconnected, that although the damage they do is clear, it is very difficult to discover how it was done. By which weapon? In whose hand? Are we driving the ecosphere to destruction simply by our growing numbers? By our greedy accumulation of wealth? Or are the machines which we have built to gain this wealth-the magnificent technology that now feeds us out of neat packages, that clothes us in man-made fibers, that surrounds us with new chemical creations-at fault?” MenMadeDoneHandsDifficultWealthPowerfulNumbersTechnologyClearGrowingCreationClothesWeaponsGainsBuiltDestructionMachinesFaultsEnvironmentalDrivingDamageSurroundChemicalsMagnificentAssaultGreedyPackagesAccumulationNeatEcosystemsFiberInterconnected Author:Barry Commoner
“My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.” KindHandsUsedCertainTechnologyFiguresPaintingPaintScreensCanvasVansWovenKinds Of LoveAppsJuicy Author:Robert Genn
“When I came back from Munich, it was September, and I was Professor of Mathematics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Later I learned that I had been the Department's third choice, after two numerical analysts had turned the invitation down; the decision to invite me had not been an easy one, on the one hand because I had not really studied mathematics, and on the other hand because of my sandals, my beard and my "arrogance" (whatever that may be).” MayTwoHandsChoicesEasyDecisionTechnologyThirdsMathematicsUniversityArroganceDepartmentProfessorsInvitesSeptemberInvitationsBeardAnalystsSandalsMunich Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“Nobody thinks about technical issues anymore because cameras or camera phones take care of that automatically. On the other hand, you still have the option of controlling every technical aspect. It's the most accessible, democratic medium available in the world.” ThinkingWorldStillsHandsCareTechnologyIssuesAspectCamerasDemocraticPhonesAvailableTake CareMediums Author:Martin Parr
“I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in.” ArtHandsUsedBitsInterestTechnologyRichComputerPaintVery GoodDataExposedGamingFusionArt And Technology Author:Aaron Koblin
“Americans have always pursued our dreams within a free market that has been the engine of our progress. It's a market that has created a prosperity that is the envy of the world, and rewarded the innovators and risk-takers who have made America a beacon of science, and technology, and discovery. But the American economy has worked in large part because we have guided the market's invisible hand with a higher principle - that America prospers when all Americans can prosper. That is why we have put in place rules of the road to make competition fair, and open, and honest.” WorldHas BeensMadeDreamHandsAmericaPrinciplesTechnologyEconomyProgressRiskHonestHigherDiscoveryFairsCompetitionProsperityEnvyInvisibleEnginesOur DreamsFree MarketPursuedInnovatorsScience And TechnologyBeaconsAmerican EconomyInvisible Hand Author:Barack Obama
“We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs. . . (soon) we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper-hand.” NeedsHandsTechnologyMilitaryPolicyPositionReturnGainsProgramStringsMassiveCommunistAggressiveCapitalistForeign PolicyAgricultureUpper Hand Author:Leonid Brezhnev
“Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition.” HandsPoliticalValuesHumanityFallTechnologyRiskEconomicInstrumentsSuperstitionsExtensionsEconomic Power Author:Nicola Cabibbo
“Today, no one would dispute that information technology has become the backbone of commerce. It underpins the operations of individual companies, ties together far-flung supply chains, and, increasingly, links businesses to the customers they serve. Hardly a dollar or a euro changes hands anymore without the aid of computer systems.” HandsTodayTogetherIndividualCompanyTechnologyInformationComputerDollarsCustomersAidsChainsOperationsTiesLinksCommerceDisputesBackboneInformation TechnologyEuroSupply ChainComputer Systems Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“I am simply pointing out that at the rate at which we are going the whole genetic engineering technology will end up in the hands of the political system to be used for the complete control and subjugation of man.” MenEndsWholeHandsPoliticalUsedTechnologyRateEngineeringPointingPolitical SystemsSubjugationGenetic Engineering Author:U.G. Krishnamurti
“Baseball should adopt replay, plain and simple. If we can see it at home or on hand-held PDAs, the technology should be used in games.” IfsShouldHomeHandsUsedGamesSimpleTechnologyBaseballReplayPlain And SimplePda Author:Michael Wilbon
“I think maybe what happened was the convenience of technology overshadowed the experience of holding an album in your hands, and sitting on your bedroom floor, and staring at a picture of John Lennon or Gene Simmons or Johnny Rotten. That tangible experience can sometimes become an even more emotional experience, because it's really happening.” ThinkingSometimesHandsTechnologyHappenedEmotionalHappeningsSittingAlbumsStaringGenesBedroomConvenienceRottenTangibleLennonJohnny Rotten Author:Dave Grohl
“The aim of industrialization has always been to replace people with machines or other technology, to make the cost of production as low as possible, to sell the product as high as possible, and to move the wealth into fewer and fewer hands.” PeopleHandsMovingWealthTechnologyProductsCostLowsMachinesAimSellsProductionsFewerIndustrialization Author:Wendell Berry
“Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.” MeanHandsMightScienceCultureSecretPrinciplesTechnologyHigherOrganizationInstrumentsInspiredSupremeSavingAbstractLatterOver It Author:Johan Huizinga
“The problem with holding a grudge is that your hands are then too full to hold onto anything else. It might be the competition or a technology or the lousy things that someone did a decade ago. None of it is going to get better as a result of revisiting the grudge.” ProblemHandsMightResultsTechnologyCompetitionDecadesGet BetterGrudge Author:Seth Godin
“We don't legislate emergent technologies into existence. We almost never do. They just emerge, dragged forth by Adam Smith's invisible hand. Then we have to see what people are actually going to do with them, and try to legislate to take account of that.” PeopleTryingHandsExistenceTechnologyAccountsInvisibleAdamInvisible Hand Author:William Gibson
“How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are 3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand, who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a nanocentury.” IfsTryingYearsHandsFunnyRememberScienceForgetHalfTechnologyPercentSeconds Author:Tom Duff
“The important thing is to learn from mistakes - something graduates are adept at. Our graduate engineers are working on new technology - from uncharted applications for our digital motor, to a new take on the hand dryer. With an unhindered mind, nothing is off limits.” MindImportantHandsMistakeTechnologyLimitsImportant ThingsDigitalApplicationGraduatesEngineersMotorLearning From MistakesNew TechnologyAdeptUnchartedInexperienceDryers Author:James Dyson
“I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don't think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn't feel right. There's a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.” ThinkingWayFeelsWritingI CanReasonHandsFictionCasesTechnologyImagineComputerConnectionsBlindGutsNonfictionTypewritersFeels RightRejectingWriting Nonfiction Author:Jennifer Egan
“M-governance is empowered governance. It has the potential to make development a truly inclusive and comprehensive mass movement. It puts governance into everyone's reach. It puts governance in your hands 24/7.” HandsTechnologyMovementDevelopmentMassIndiaGovernanceEmpoweredComprehensiveInformation Technology Author:Narendra Modi
“The entire Nation has joined hands to make the dream of a Digital India into a reality. Youngsters are enthusiastic, industry is supportive and the government is proactive. India is yearning for a digital revolution.” DreamHandsRealityGovernmentNationsTechnologyRevolutionIndustryIndiaDigitalYearningSupportiveEnthusiasticInformation TechnologyYoungstersProactiveDigital RevolutionDigital India Author:Narendra Modi
“On the other hand technology brings within your reach the great therapy of music; this activates the inner living cells of your body, stimulates the energy of the inner self and helps to unite the conscious mind with the other portions of your being.” MindSelfHelpingBodyHandsEnergyTechnologyConsciousYour BodyCellsTherapyPortionsInner SelfActivateConscious Mind Author:Seth
“Technology is the penultimate chameleon, taking on the characteristics of its handler. In some hands technology is a tool of treachery, while in others it morphs into a peaceful protest. In still others, it represents the bleeding edge of freedom.” StillsHandsTechnologyToolsEdgesPeacefulCharacteristicsProtestBleedingTreacheryChameleonPeaceful Protest Author:Brock N. Meeks
“I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.” PeopleThinkingNeedsSaidStatesHandsWould BePoorTechnologyRichDangerMouthsProsperityProtectionHungryWildernessPredatory Book:To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux Source: To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux
“When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do not allow the Government to deploy those technologies.” ThinkingShouldStatesHandsGovernmentAsksDecisionTechnologyPolicyPoliceOneselfNew TechnologyPublic PolicyPolice State Author:Phil Zimmermann
“With all of this new technology at our hand, there is much more opportunity to show and to allow the audience to take in bits of the story on a more subliminal level, as well as the more expository, simply because they are getting things from different ways. It is really interesting to see where that can go.” WayWellsDifferentStoriesShowsHandsOpportunityBitsInterestingLevelsTechnologyAudienceDifferent WaysReally InterestingNew TechnologySubliminal Author:Rick Heinrichs
“One paradox I have found is that, the more you use computers in picture-making, the more hand-made the picture becomes. Oddly, then, digital technology is leading, in my work at least, toward a greater reliance on handmaking because the assembly and montage of the various parts of the picture is done very carefully by hand.” MadeDoneUseHandsFoundTechnologyGreaterComputerVariousDigitalParadoxRelianceAssemblyDigital Technology Author:Jeff Wall
“That is certainly the point: when the human species was born, on the African savanna, life was pretty good; we could live in harmony with the rest of nature, and that's what I've been calling Eden. The only technologies that humans devised for some 2 million years were fire and the hand ax. That's all. Eden didn't need anything more” NeedsYearsHumansHandsBornMillionsTechnologyFireCallingHarmonySpeciesEdenHuman SpeciesSavanna Author:Kirkpatrick Sale
“If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will have been toppled and new companies will be on top.” IfsHas BeensEndsHandsCompanyLeaderTechnologyTransitionOddsDisruptiveNew Company Author:Clayton Christensen
“On the one hand, technology is more mysterious. On the other hand, we're more aware of its limitations. Every time I watch Star Trek, I'm highly aware of magical everything is: the holodeck, the warp drive. It's possible that with wormholes we might eventually be able to do something like that. But the laws of physics are pretty unforgiving.” HandsMightAbleLawStarsWatchesTechnologyPhysicsMysteriousLimitationLaws Of PhysicsUnforgivingWarpWormholes Author:Charlie Jane Anders
“Israel is a big provider of military technology to Brazil and this has caused a big breach in the two sides of the government. On the one hand, you have the diplomatic side. On the other side, Brazil's military has been quoted in the local press as being quite upset that this diplomatic standoff could affect the military relationship.” Has BeensTwoHandsBigsGovernmentSidesTechnologyMilitaryPressesIsraelLocalsUpsetTwo SidesBrazilDiplomaticProvidersBreachStandoffs Author:Lourdes Garcia-Navarro
“What's great is we actually have friends who belong or have previously belonged to the Amish community, so we got first hand stories and I was able to talk with them about visitors and visiting the Amish country. It was very enlightening to think this is very much going on as we speak. What was really interesting was that the upcoming Amish generation is actually closer to average American teenager in their use of the English language because of the use of technology.” ThinkingFirstsCountryStoriesUseHandsAbleSpeakLanguageCommunityInterestingTechnologyGenerationsAverageTeenagerEnglish LanguageEnlighteningReally InterestingVisitingVisitorsAmishUse Of Technology Author:Alyson Stoner
“You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.” PeopleWorldHandsRealityCertainLevelsCareersTechnologyPlanetsHugeTerribleComfortEuropeDollarsBillionsMainstreamMortgageBourgeoisTechnology In Education Author:Ben Fountain
“I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a solution for a project and put it in place and shipped the solution and it landed in a reader or a customer's hands as a brochure. They would see it as a poster, or as a piece of signage. And that was sort of it. That was the end of it. I think Internet technology has really upended that whole equation because in some ways a designer's work is never really done online.” ThinkingWayEndsDoneWholeHandsTechnologyPiecesCenturyDesignReaderInternetProjectsSolutionsCustomersDesignerOnline20th CenturyEquationsPostersInternet TechnologyBrochures Author:Khoi Vinh
“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.” TwoHandsHumanityWalksActingTechnologyProgressServantInseparableHand In Hand Author:Michael Dertouzos