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I don't think we have wrapped our heads around how much technology has allowed the manipulation of individuals and democracies.
I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone.
The brain processes information using 100,000 times less energy than we do right now with this computer technology that we have.
We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies.
We haven't figured out a way to get sensors that can discriminate between decoys and warheads. The technology doesn't exist yet.
So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything, and they don't drink all your beer.
Prior to the internet, the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table
Technology helps us become more efficient and productive but our business still has a lot of art as opposed to strictly science.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
I think the technology today is so much more advanced that it gives kids a lot more freedom... Back then it was a lot different.
Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled, high-wage jobs for industries of the future.
Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.
America needs to be able to be energy-independent, and the electric vehicle, the battery technology is one way of getting there.
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
Technology, ideology, and social and cultural changes periodically throw out new forms of violence for humanity to contend with.
The drive toward complex technical achievement offers a clue to why the U.S. is good at space gadgetry and bad at slum problems.
Im not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.
A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
Technology is important because it creates the future. We're able to be a part of the "next" and create things that don't exist.
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
I'm not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.
There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.
So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.
New technology is the true friend of full employment; the indispensable ally of progress; and the surest guarantee of prosperity.
The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.
From the time I was 7, when I purchased my first calculator, I was fascinated by the idea of a machine that could compute things.
We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
In the marketplace, design is your greatest differentiator once everything becomes comparable in terms of technology and quality.
Well, technology is supposed to make life better," she says. "No matter what you believe, there's a technology out there for you.
All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.
It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.
We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.
The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction.
Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.
Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
A lot of these gadgets and pieces of technology we use become almost like friends to us, and we expect our friends to have voices.
There's a lot of Google fascination out there and we share it, and we're going to compete, we're going to compete very, very hard.
The bulk of all patents are crap. Spending time reading them is stupid. It's up to the patent owner to do so, and to enforce them.
We are bringing technology into governance in a very big way. This is making governance easy, effective, economic and transparent.
I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.
Man's guilt in history and in the tides of his own blood has been complicated by technology, the daily seeping falsehearted death.
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.