Terrence McNally Quotes

Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. In a surprising twist, relentless connection leads to a new solitude.

Terrence McNally

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• First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Work
  • America

• Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Important
  • Long
  • Done

• Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Technology
  • Humanity
  • Wrong

• The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Different
  • You
  • Technology

• Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Technology
  • Out
  • Computing

• We have innovative differentiated technology that is recognized by our customers and third party analysts as the best in the industry; we have industry-leading support with a very large satisfied installed base due to our best-in-class support and development organisations.

  

  N. Robert Hammer
  • Support
  • Party
  • Technology

• The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Technology
  • Film
  • Dead

• I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Technology
  • Judgment
  • Myth

• There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Technology
  • Opinion
  • Emotional

• India is still considered a preferred destination for many multinationals to manufacture cost-competitive high-technology products for domestic consumption as well as for global demand.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • High
  • Technology
  • Demand

• Working in Hollywood, it's clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Money
  • Technology
  • Japanese

• We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • Power
  • Science

• It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • True
  • Technology
  • Humanity

• So many people I talk to who work in technology, you ask them, 'What got you interested in science?' and those from my generation say, 'The Apollo landings.'

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • People
  • Work
  • Science

• I know what I don't know. To this day, I don't know technology, and I don't know finance or accounting.

  

  Bernard Ebbers
  • Technology

• In the world of maternal health, cell phone technology is being used to provide prenatal care, linking pregnant women to health care providers when they can't otherwise reach healthcare facilities.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • World
  • Women
  • Health

• It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Technology
  • Picture

• We had some really powerful technology - Atari always was a technology-driven company, and we were very keen on keeping the technological edge on everything. There's a whole bunch of things that we innovated. We made the first computer that did stamps or sprites, we did screen-mapping for the very first time, and a lot of stuff like that.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Powerful

• The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Writing
  • Solitude

• I'm not going to be reduced to the position of being the implementer of Tory cuts in the North.

  

  Martin McGuinness

• Being a wife and a mother is very gratifying, but it's not a creative expression and that's something I need to be happy.

  

  Genie Francis
  • Happy
  • Mother
  • Wife

• Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. In a surprising twist, relentless connection leads to a new solitude.

  

  Terrence McNally
  • Technology
  • Solitude
  • Drains