Technology Quotes
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I grew up in East Germany, and we were short on technology. So my father was really proud to be the owner of a turntable.
Sascha Ring
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I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.
John W. Thompson
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In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.
Charles Leadbeater
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Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.
David Copperfield
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Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.
Chris O'Dowd
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I think any new technology that helps connect and create social cohesion is great. But at the end of the day, you and I are analog creatures. We have to take 'oohs and aahs' and convert them to 0s and 1s and then convert them back to 'oohs and aahs.' Narratives that work in social networks are the exchange of stories that are told well.
Peter Guber
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By involving all men in all men, by the electric extension of their own nervous systems, the new technology turns the figure of the primitive society into a universal ground that buries all previous figures. (p. 25)
Marshall McLuhan
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In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.
Koichi Tanaka
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I love software and I love technology.
Marc Benioff
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Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.
Emily Greene Balch
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Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.
Jason Calacanis
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Good, bad or indifferent, if you are not investing in new technology, you are going to be left behind.
Philip Green
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People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we're not reading, and in fact we're not really communicating, either. We're not talking to each other. There's just all these screens and wires and technology in between.
Lee Smith
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It would be unwise to say the least, irresponsible of us at the TSA, at the Homeland Security Department not to evolve our technology to match the changing threat environment that we inhabit.
Janet Napolitano
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My creative side is identifying all these great entrepreneurial creative people that come up with great ideas, whether they are in fashion or technology or a new tool to improve ourselves.
Carmen Busquets
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Technology, and applications of this technology, will continue to improve and evolve, providing unprecedented, global access to information, individuals, training, and opportunities.
Maynard Webb
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Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.
John Dykstra
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I think open source is an evolutionary idea for humanity, this idea of transparency. It played out for us in the technology world, but it also played out with the idea of a truth and reconciliation commission and Wikipedia.
Megan Smith
