Quotes by Technology I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines. Eddie Vedder votingtechnologypeople The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction. Eckhart Tolle technologyspiritualart [A] science fiction story is one which presupposes a technology, or an effect of technology, or a disturbance in the natural order, such as humanity, up to the time of writing, has not in actual fact, experienced. Edmund Crispin technologywritingorder Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. Edsger Dijkstra telescopestechnologyscience Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology. Edsger Dijkstra technologytodaypeople The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim. Edsger Dijkstra technologyswimthinking Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images. Eduardo Paolozzi doctorstechnologyorder 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). Edsger Dijkstra technologytwohands For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology (drugs), electrical pulses, and so on. But none of these technologies are precise. With optogenetics, we can aim light at a single cell, or a set of cells, and turn just that set of cells on or off. Edward Boyden technologycellslight In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP. Edward Felten creativitytechnologydecision We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers. Edward Dahlberg technologyriverstalking High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring Edward Abbey technologysimplespring We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design. Edward de Bono technologyopportunitythinking Were I to make the announcement and to run, the reasons I would run is because I have a great belief in this country [America]. ... There's more natural resources than any nation in the world; the greatest education population in the world; the greatest technology of any country in the world; the greatest capacity for innovation in the world; and the greatest political system in the world. Edward Kennedy technologyrunningcountry The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses. Edward Abbey dachautechnologywar I think technology is having a democratising effect on film. Edward Norton filmtechnologythinking The egoic madness, or dysfunction, becomes enormously amplified by the science and technology we all have developed. Eckhart Tolle dysfunctionmadnesstechnology The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. Edward R. Murrow communicationtechnologylanguage The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. Edward Teller technologyteacherscience Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led to nuclear energy. But before the 1880's, science played almost no role in the advances of technology. For example, James Watt developed the first efficient steam engine long before science established the equivalence between mechanical heat and energy. Edward Teller technologydiscoveryscience«5960616263646566676869»
