Technology Quotes - Page 175

I'm really only interested in technology that is about pictures. I'm interested in anything that makes a picture.

I'm convinced that technology and art go together - and always have, for centuries.

I don't let technology and mechanics hinder me from a good time. During one of a film premiere there was a party in the other room; I needed to get to it, so I got out. I escaped. Sometimes you do what you can, you'll turn on your best John Maclean and get to it.

If you look at history, every major realignment in our politics is a joining together of a new generation and emerging technologies. Obama has been a pioneer in joining the powers of the Internet with the principles of community organizing. Howard Dean used the Internet for meetups - Obama used it to create a movement.

Look, the media are trapped by changes in the technology and business of their industry.

My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.

As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.

Since I see technology as being an extension of the human body, it's inevitable that it should come home to roost.

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that.

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

Tech executives have historically been owners of significant portions of their companies' stock so there is a propensity for them to diversify as a rule.

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

I'm worried that our technology is helping to bring the long, postwar consensus against fascism to an end.

Technology is very important; it enables connection to one another, which is essential.

No technology will win. Technology itself will win.

You can make yourself the greatest singer in the world or the best drummer in the world with the aid of technology.

I think maybe what happened was the convenience of technology overshadowed the experience of holding an album in your hands, and sitting on your bedroom floor, and staring at a picture of John Lennon or Gene Simmons or Johnny Rotten. That tangible experience can sometimes become an even more emotional experience, because it's really happening.

The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn."

But interestingly Star City's technology is all 1970s - still. In fact, it's alarming because you think, "You're not going to send someone up into space in something that old, are you?" But it works and it always has worked and it doesn't fail and it's incredibly reliable.

I actually love technology. I worked for 18 years as systems analyst in technology.

I think technology is spreading, and I think ones experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.

I hope it will not be too long before the technologies that support our population explosion begin to be perceived as no less hazardous to the future of life on this planet than the endless production of radioactive wastes.

We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.