Technology Quotes - Page 15

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.

Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite, and only a few pass this test of affinity with human nature.

We need a data network that can easily carry voice, instead of what we have today, a voice network struggling to carry data.

The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art.

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

People envision [looking inside the brain] as being very difficult. You had to take a spaceship, shrink it down, inject it into the bloodstream.

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

The most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death that material prosperity bring enjoyment and happiness - even though all the proofs in history have shown that only lack and attempt cause a life worth living, that the material prosperity doesn't bring anything else than despair. These priests believe in technology still when they choke in their gas masks.

No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either.

The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.

Looking closer can make something beautiful

I dream of a Digital India where high-speed Digital Highways unite the Nation.

In an age of interdependence, global citizenship - based on trust and sense of shared responsibility - is a crucial pillar of progress. At a time when more than one billion people are denied the very minimum requirements of human dignity, business cannot afford to be seen as the problem. Rather, it must work with governments and all other actors in society to mobilize global science, technology and knowledge to tackle the interlocking crises of hunger, disease, environmental degradation and conflict that are holding back the developing world.

Clear content, simple navigation and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.

When the safety of America is threatened, we will spend any amount of money. The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place [in] thinking and technology and democracy.

It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex dominations. Cyborg imagery can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves.

Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

Hatred can be nurtured anywhere, idealism can be perverted into sadism anywhere. If hatred and sadism combine with modern technology the inferno could erupt anew anywhere.

Computer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

It used to be that people could be painfully boring in private. Facebook changed all that.