Quotes by Technology We need to reject not only outdated fossil-fuel technology, but also an outdated economic system and an outdated corporatist political system. The progressive view is that we are smart enough and ethical enough to not have to be subservient to corporations. We can create our own resilient, localized communities. Tim DeChristopher smarttechnologyviews We're putting all of our energy into making it right. And we have already had several software updates. We've got a huge plan to make it even better. It will get better and better over time. We screwed up. That's the fact. Tim Cook get-bettertechnologyenergy Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind. Tim Berners-Lee legendstechnologysex I am not a big technology person. I don't go on the Internet really much at all. Drawing is like a zen thing; it's private, which in this day and age is harder to come by. Tim Burton drawingtechnologyage People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done! Tim Berners-Lee technologypeoplethinking If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%! Tim Berners-Lee technologytakenpeople Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space. Tim Berners-Lee technologyspaceneeds If those of us in positions of responsibility fail to do everything in our power to protect the right of privacy, we risk something far more valuable than money. We risk our way of life. Tim Cook technologyresponsibilitygiving For over 15 years, through the clean coal programs of the Department of Energy, the Federal Government has been a solid partner, working jointly with private companies and the states to develop and demonstrate a new generation of environmentally clean technology using coal. Tim Holden technologygovernmentyears A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens. Tim Holden impacteducationaltechnology People still talk about sampling as this new, progressive problem in music. There are technologies now where you can glean the polyphonic information out of a sample and then put that back in and then score it for five instruments. You don't need digital audio to sample; you can rewrite things. Tim Hecker technologyproblempeople If pornographers are among the early adopters of the new technology, then it has definite commercial possibilities. Tim Jackson possibilityinternettechnology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. Thomas Sowell massachusettstechnologyclass It is technology. They all changed to a harder golf ball, so they gave up spinning on the greens. They all changed to longer drivers, bigger heads with hotter faces and lighter shafts. The problem is, the harder you hit it, the more control you lose. Tiger Woods ballstechnologygolf What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done. Tim O'Reilly technologyopportunityjobs Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief. Tim O'Reilly thievestechnologytrying Early on, when software was developed by computer scientists, just people working with computers, people passed around software because that was how you got computers to do things. Tim O'Reilly computertechnologypeople The growing complexity of science, technology, and organization does not imply either a growing knowledge or a growing need for knowledge in the general population. On the contrary, the increasingly complex processes tend to lead to increasingly simple and easily understood products. The genius of mass production is precisely in its making more products more accessible, both economically and intellectually to more people. Thomas Sowell growing-knowledgetechnologysimple Even if her children or grandchildren are willing to spend their own money to keep grandma alive, when bureaucrats control the necessary technology or medication they may decide that it is not for sale. Thomas Sowell technologygrandmachildren We were told that all this new high technology, all these new high-tech jobs that we were going to be creating here in the United States of America would stay here, so our people would benefit with the jobs and health care and everything else. Tim Ryan creatingtechnologyjobs«216217218219220221222223224225226»
