Quotes by Technology There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'. Edward Tufte computertechnologytwo Today's science is tomorrow's technology. Edward Teller technologytodayscience The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm. Edward Tufte harmtechnologyshould Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy! Edwin Drake technologycrazymean We have the means and we have the technology to end mass surveillance without any legislative action at all, without any policy changes. Edward Snowden surveillancetechnologymean I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun. Edward Abbey ravenseaglestechnology Technology provides us means outside of governments to begin enforcing our rights, enforcing protection of civil liberties, regardless of law, through the implementation of systems and standards. Edward Snowden technologyrightsmean I wonder, would I have transitioned from female to male if I was 30 years younger? Possibly. But if I had been born even 30 years later, because it seems like the technology will only get better, it seems like one might not ever need to settle down at all. Eileen Myles get-bettertechnologyyears I think that's actually what's missing from government, for the most part. We've got a lot of policy people, but we have no technologists, even though technology is such a big part of our lives. It's just amazing, because even these big Silicon Valley companies, the masters of the universe or whatever, haven't engaged with Washington until recently. They're still playing catch-up. Edward Snowden technologygovernmentthinking Technology sounds quick and easy, but it ends up taking up too much of your time. Elaine Equi technologytoo-muchsound I'm not a politician, and I do not think I am as effective in this way as people who actually prepare for it - is to focus on technical reform, because I speak the language of technology. I spoke with Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who invented the World Wide Web. We agree on the necessity for this generation to create what he calls the Magna Carta for the Internet. We want to say what "digital rights" should be. What values should we be protecting, and how do we assert them. Edward Snowden technologyrightsthinking You can't turn back technology and you can't turn back authoritarianism. You can't have one hand in the dirt and one hand in the crystal clear water and say that you're clean. That's just the way it is. El-P technologywaterhands There's nothing worse than being shackled by some miniscule sort of technology you have onstage, and I think your mettle is going to get tested in those moments. El-P technologymomentsthinking Has the center of gravity shifted such that all governments have greater powers and fewer restrictions than they ever had, and are empowered by technology in a way that no government ever was in the past? Edward Snowden technologygovernmentpast I do everything on the computer. TV is obsolete technology for me. Edward Snowden computertvstechnology I've always wanted to make a big apocalypse movie. I love 28 Weeks Later, I think it's great but Cell is totally different. It's about people's dependence on technology, the collapse of society and watching everything fall apart. That's something I've always wanted to do, which I believe it can! Eli Roth technologybelievefall With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if nothing changes the ego will use those things - as it already has been doing - and will amplify the technology that we now have. The scientific advances, to a large extent, will be used in the service of the ego, and they will become more and more destructive. Eckhart Tolle egotechnologyuse It doesn't matter how new an idea is: what matters is how new it becomes. Elias Canetti creativitywhat-matterstechnology We would destroy ourselves and the planet if no change happens, because of the amplification of the egoic state through science and technology. Eckhart Tolle amplificationtechnologystates Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree that humanity, and probably the planet, would not survive for another hundred years if human consciousness remains unchanged. Eckhart Tolle dysfunctiontechnologyyears«6061626364656667686970»
