Quotes by Technology There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly. Buzz Aldrin engineeringtechnologymath For the future, primarily, we must educate people in science, engineering, technology and math. Buzz Aldrin engineeringtechnologymath Apollo 11 will probably go down in history as one of the major responses of two nations facing each other with threatening technologies - sometimes called mutually assured destruction. It was also the America's response to the apparent superiority of the Russians in putting objects into space before USA could. Buzz Aldrin two-nationsusatechnology The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear weapons and banish them from the arsenals of the world. C. G. Weeramantry nucleartechnologysimple What mankind can dream C. Walton Lillehei technologyresearchdream Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or another, everyone is equal before these cultural machines; like technology itself, the mass media are nearly universal in their incidence and appeal. They are a kind of common denominator, a kind of scheme for pre-scheduled, mass emotions. C. Wright Mills mediatechnologyfiction It is the greatest truth of our age: Information is not knowledge. Caleb Carr technologyagescience When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community and often the community socially is broken. Cameron Sinclair crushtechnologybroken This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV. Canning Fok camerasphonestechnology Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code [for metrics]. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice. Capers Jones linestechnologyuse Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet. Carl Honore planetsminutestechnology Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. Carl Jung technologydoorshands The advance of technology, like the growth of population and industry, has also been proceeding exponentially. Carl Kaysen populationgrowthtechnology We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. Carl Sagan elementstechnologycivilization All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. Carl Sagan technologysciencebook I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you. Carl Sagan technologystarstwo What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilisation is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilisation millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque Carl Sagan technologymeanyears It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid rain, topsoil erosion, tropical deforestation, exponential population growth. Jobs and wages depend on science and technology. Carl Sagan technologyrainjobs Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which not. But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited. Carl Sagan technologywishexercise We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. Carl Sagan information-societytechnologyscience«2728293031323334353637»
