Quotes by Technology Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear. Joe Walsh independenttechnologyparent With modern technology and science, you can't find one instance in which an abortion would be needed to save a woman's life. There is no such exception as life of the mother, and as far as health of the mother, same thing. Joe Walsh abortiontechnologymother In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House, the residence of the leaders of our country. At that time, commercial electricity was not economically feasible, but President Harrison wanted to affirm his confidence in the technological capability of our country. Jimmy Carter technologywhitecountry If you can't understand the spec for a new technology, don't worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won't be that important. Joel Spolsky technologyimportantworry That many if not most people...who want fresh leafy greens in January buy them at the supermarket after they've been bleached and plastic-bag shipped from California or beyond is not a tribute to modern technology; it's an unprecedented abdication of personal responsibility and a ubiquitous benchmark of abnormality. Joel Salatin californiatechnologyresponsibility 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. Johan Huizinga technologysciencemean The widespread inability to understand technological artifacts as fabricated entities, as social and cultural phenomena, derives from the fact that in retrospect only those technologies that prove functional for a culture and can be integrated into everyday life are 'left over.' However, the perception of what is functional, successful and useful is itself the product of social and cultural--and last but not least--political and economic processes. Selection processes and abandoned products and product forms are usually not discussed. Johannes Grenzfurthner politicaltechnologysuccessful If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything. John Aniston clickstechnologyifs Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide enough energy? Can we do it, all that, while mitigating and adapting to climate change? And can we do all that in 21 years time? That's when these things are going to start hitting in a really big way. We need to act now. We need investment in science and technology, and all the other ways of treating very seriously these major problems. 2030 is not very far away John Beddington technologypeopleyears Iran has essentially mastered all of the complex science and technology that they need to have a completely indigenous nuclear weapons program. That means that our options on Iran are extremely limited, to regime change or as a last resort, the use of force. John Bolton irantechnologymean It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button. John Brunner zanzibarbuttonstechnology I mean the price of our technology may very well end up being our humanity, so I think you got to have that balance. Personally I try to do one for one if I can. Do a movie, do a play, do a movie, do a play - while at the same time writing and being in that cycle. John Buffalo Mailer technologywritingmean In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear. John C. Dvorak technologyfunscience The Noisiest buzz in the industry lately has been over the emerging use of cable TV systems to provide fast network data transmissions using a device called a cable modem. But the likelihood of this technology succeeding is zilch. John C. Dvorak datasucceedtechnology Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression. John Charles Polanyi oppressiontechnologyrights Horror is always the same. It changes with the culture and changes with technology. The stories are always the same. There are just two basic stories in horror, two simple ones -- evil is outside and evil is in here [points to his heart]. John Carpenter technologysimpleheart Experiments are mediators between nature and idea. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe technologyscienceideas Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web. John Collison technologypeopleideas Technology frightens me to death. It's designed by engineers to impress other engineers, and they always come with instruction booklets that are written by engineers for other engineers - which is why almost no technology ever works. John Cleese impresstechnologyinstruction The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general. John Charles Polanyi essentialstechnologyrights«105106107108109110111112113114115»
