Quotes about Technological

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal. Votes: 8

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. Votes: 8

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. Votes: 6

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. Votes: 6

Unprecedented technological capabilities combined with unlimited human creativity have given us tremendous power to take on intractable problems like poverty, unemployment, disease, and environmental degradation. Our challenge is to translate this extraordinary potential into meaningful change. Votes: 6

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society. Votes: 4

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities. Votes: 4

The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation. Votes: 4

Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake. Votes: 4

Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves. Votes: 4

There is a demon in technology. It was put there by man and man will have to exorcise it before technological civilization can achieve the eighteenth-century ideal of humane civilized life. Votes: 4

Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it. Votes: 4

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy Votes: 4

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science. Votes: 4

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. Votes: 4

More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. Votes: 4

Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt. Votes: 4

History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses. Votes: 4

A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that Votes: 4

The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community. Votes: 4

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences. Votes: 4

It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy. Votes: 4

The greatest cost of the specialization of technological life - and out of which all other damages are birthed - is arguably our separation from the practical and enriching sense of ourselves as embodied beings. When we are alienated from the wisdom of the body, our lives become theoretical and abstract, and we are distanced from the direct, felt sense of living. Votes: 4

The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine. Votes: 4

Technological advances have always been driven more by a mind-set of 'I can' than 'I should' Technologists love to cram maximum functionality into their products. That's 'I can' thinking, which is driven by peer competition and market forces But this approach ignores the far more important question of how the consumer will actually use the device focus on what we should be doing, not just what we can. Votes: 4

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change. Votes: 3

Can our Society meet the Challenge of a Technological Future? Votes: 3

Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about. Votes: 3

Technological change is beneficial only when other jobs replace the ones lost. Votes: 3

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives. Votes: 3

Technological advance often thrives in sheltered and subsidized markets, which defy free trade. Votes: 3

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. Votes: 3

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer. Votes: 3

Technological evolution is leading to something new: a worldwide, interlocked, monolithic, technical-political web of unprecedented negative proportions Votes: 3

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. Votes: 3

Technological innovation is the successful implementation (in commerce or management) of a technical idea new to the institution creating it. Votes: 3

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before. Votes: 3

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism. Votes: 3

Technological civilization has now dominated the earth to the point where there is a big question what is going to happen next. Votes: 3

Technological possibilities are irresistible to man. If man can go to the moon, he will. If he can control the climate, he will. Votes: 3

Technological measures are important, but equally important is... a consciousness of the commonality of all living beings and an emphasis on shared responsibility. Votes: 3

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war. Votes: 3

We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war. Votes: 3

Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies at reasonably low prices. Votes: 3

Technological civilizations don't last long. You're all right until you get a printing press. Then a race starts between technology and common sense. And maybe technology always wins. Votes: 3

Technological innovation has done great damage ... to eating habits. Food is now available in such unpleasant forms that one frequently finds smoking between courses to be an aid to digestion. Votes: 3

Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it. Votes: 3

Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes. Votes: 3

We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we see, but we still regard them as necessary physical and spiritual companions. Technological nature can't completely satisfy that yearning. Votes: 3

Technological rationality reveals its political character as it becomes the great vehicle of better domination, creating a truely totalitarian universe in which society and nature, mind and body are kept in a state of permanent mobilization for the defense of this universe. Votes: 3

Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodesassumptions about the nature of our reality, the "pattern" in which we dwell, and lays open new choices. Votes: 3

Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system Votes: 3

Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state. Votes: 3

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability. Votes: 2

Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society. Votes: 2

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery. Votes: 2

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness. Votes: 2

We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exercise to their heart's desire their technological capacity. Votes: 2

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress. Votes: 2

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess. Votes: 2

Because of the love affair between the American public and the stock market, it is possible for entrepreneurs, technological visionaries and inventors of every sort to get financing. Votes: 2

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'. Votes: 2

The industrial revolution in the new century is, in essence, a scientific and technological revolution, and breaking through the cutting edge is a shortcut to the building of an economic giant. Votes: 2

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed. Votes: 2

The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. Votes: 2

Like the skyscraper, the automobile, and the motion-picture palace, neon signs once symbolized popular hopes for a new era of technological achievement and commercial abundance. From the 1920s to the 1950s, neon-lit streets pulsed with visual excitement from Vancouver to Miami. Votes: 2

It turns out that advancing equal opportunity and economic empowerment is both morally right and good economics, because discrimination, poverty and ignorance restrict growth, while investments in education, infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase it, creating more good jobs and new wealth for all of us. Votes: 2

Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution. Votes: 2

Iran's goal is not to become another North Korea - a nuclear weapons possessor but a pariah in the international community - but rather Brazil or Japan, a technological powerhouse with the capacity to develop nuclear weapons if the political winds were to shift, while remaining a nonnuclear weapons state. Votes: 2

The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency. Votes: 2

When someone takes their existing business and tries to transform it into something else - they fail. In technology that is often the case. Look at Kodak: it was the dominant imaging company in the world. They did fabulously during the great depression, but then wiped out the shareholders because of technological change. Votes: 2

What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inventing new media: movies, records, radio, television, the Internet, and now ebooks - and one of the things that's most interesting about the invention of a new medium is watching it reinvent itself as it penetrates the culture. Votes: 2

We need to know who's in the United States. We need to know everyone who's in the United States that comes in here from a foreign country. And we have to separate the ones who are dangerous from the ones who aren't. To accomplish that, we need a fence. We need a technological fence. We need a border patrol. Votes: 2

Ancient miracles are technological wonders. Votes: 0

Nature is technological relic of ancient civilizations. Votes: 0

Bitcoin is a technological tour de force Votes: 0

Twitter is more a cultural than a technological change. Votes: 0

The human brain is the god of technological innovation. Votes: 0

But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will. Votes: 0

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way. Votes: 0

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological. Votes: 0

This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics. Votes: 0

Implementation of technological change must involve critics as well as advocates. Votes: 0

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure. Votes: 0

In public, an admission of technological inadequacy would be too embarrassing. Votes: 0

I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances. Votes: 0

The connections between people and land are dangerously oversimplified and mainly technological. Votes: 0

The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life. Votes: 0

Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient. Votes: 0

We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness. Votes: 0

Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization? Votes: 0

The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is. Votes: 0

Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. Votes: 0

Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience. Votes: 0

Education in a technological world of replaceable and expendable parts is neuter. Votes: 0

Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers. Votes: 0

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core. Votes: 0

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, opponents of online speech have decided to punish our changing technological world. Votes: 0

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Votes: 0

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. Votes: 0

Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return. Votes: 0

The power to hurt ... has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement. Votes: 0

I'm a technological moron. I have, I have problems with like.. the television Votes: 0

Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process. Votes: 0

Japan is a well-educated, technological society. It is a free society, protects intellectual property. Votes: 0

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity. Votes: 0

Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner. Votes: 0

I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation. Votes: 0

The power of crowd sourcing always remains with the crowd, not the technological implementation. Votes: 0

But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained. Votes: 0

The Internet, like the steam engine, is a technological breakthrough that changed the world. Votes: 0

It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution. Votes: 0

Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort Votes: 0

It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud. Votes: 0

Game design isn't just a technological craft. It's a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading. Votes: 0

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. Votes: 0

The National is the most advanced package of technological wonders yet assembled under one roof. Votes: 0

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight. Votes: 0

The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work. Votes: 0

Science has been the absolute bedrock of technological and economic progress in the United States. Votes: 0

The best way to confront, or deal with, technological innovation is to keep moving technologically. Votes: 0

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad. Votes: 0

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together. Votes: 0

The definition of an 'operating system' is bound to evolve with customer demands and technological possibilities. Votes: 0

One of the interesting and exciting things about my job is watching technological ground being pioneered. Votes: 0

The pace of technological change in recent years has been both impressive and positive for consumers. Votes: 0

Dracula appeared at a time of great technological revolution, utilizing telegraphs, typing machines, and blood transfusions. Votes: 0

A moral point of view too often serves as a substitute for understanding in technological matters. Votes: 0

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire. Votes: 0

I reject the peak oil theory insofar as it refers to technological limits on human ingenuity. Votes: 0

All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed. Votes: 0

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. Votes: 0

No communication technology has ever disappeared, but instead becomes increasingly less important as the technological horizon widens. Votes: 0

Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition. Votes: 0

Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse. Votes: 0

Candor does not provide us with protection, sustenance, or technological innovation. Therefore you are expendable to us. Votes: 0

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible. Votes: 0

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships. Votes: 0

Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO. Votes: 0

Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more lasting solution. Votes: 0

I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments. Votes: 0

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations. Votes: 0

Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. Votes: 0

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good. Votes: 0

It is not necessary to conceal anything from a public insensible to contradiction and narcotized by technological diversions. Votes: 0

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago. Votes: 0

All small returns are noise. To transcend the noise and the risk, seek outsized returns from technological paradigms. Votes: 0

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time. Votes: 0

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments. Votes: 0

We yearn for frictionless, technological solutions. But people talking to people is still the way norms and standards change. Votes: 0

We live in an increasingly technological world where the issues are quite complex and based on some complicated science. Votes: 0

We're living in a technological world. You cannot tell me we can't do a better job getting that information. Votes: 0

The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one. Votes: 0

For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role. Votes: 0

The Dalai Lama challenged me - he said, 'Why can't you use technological tools to study kindness and compassion? Votes: 0

Since the revelations, we have seen a massive sea change in the technological basis and makeup of the Internet. Votes: 0

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality. Votes: 0

Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it. Votes: 0

I don't think it could be a coincidence that the more technological a society is, the less it connects people. Votes: 0

Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics. Votes: 0

The problem isn't how to make the world more technological. It's about how to make the world more humane again. Votes: 0

Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture. Votes: 0

We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer. Votes: 0

Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. Votes: 0

My phone is trying to kill me. It is a battery-charged rectangle of disappointment and possibility. It is a technological pacifier. Votes: 0

Broadcasting's best days lie ahead as both an engine of local economies and as an integral part of tomorrow's technological world. Votes: 0

Sony has engaged in a technological version of cloak and dagger deceit against consumers by hiding secret files on their computers Votes: 0

It's funny the more technological advanced everything gets, the more like acting in your bedroom when you're a kid it is. Votes: 0

The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books. Votes: 0

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work. Votes: 0

You always learn something about movies. Directing or acting, there's always something new. It's the technological thing; there's always something to learn. Votes: 0

Asia is the market and the location where production is inexpensive. The technological expertise and specialist knowledge comes from the industrialized world. Votes: 0

I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it, Votes: 0

We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious. Votes: 0

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy. Votes: 0

I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a 'time out' from technological progress as we know it. Votes: 0

[We] assume that social progress is like technological progress: one cannot uninvent the internal combustion engine, so how could one uninvent liberty? Votes: 0

Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. Votes: 0

While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks. Votes: 0

School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological age. Votes: 0

It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. Votes: 0

That's exciting because to create new value in the robot space quickly, you need to stand on the shoulders of other technological developments. Votes: 0

Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action. Votes: 0

Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary. Votes: 0

That's the way progress works: the more we build up these vast repertoires of scientific and technological understanding, the more we conceal them. Votes: 0

Science is my JAM. I am very excited to see where science and technological advancements will take us in the next few decades. Votes: 0

Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images. Votes: 0

The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred years ago. Votes: 0

Advances have fallen, generally, for everything except the biggest potential bestsellers. Given all the changes, both economic and technological, SF hasn't done too badly. Votes: 0

A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age. Votes: 0

Many environmental questions are in a deep way philosophical, despite our penchant for treating them as if they were only technological, economic, or whatever. Votes: 0

We've learned that we've allowed technological capabilities to dictate policies and practices, rather than ensuring that our laws and values guide our technological capabilities. Votes: 0

We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. Votes: 0

Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse Votes: 0

I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving. Votes: 0

There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so. Votes: 0

A technological advance of a major sort almost always is overestimated in the short run for its consequences - and underestimated in the long run. Votes: 0

We're about to see an acceleration in technological platforms that, for marketers, will be on a scale rivalled only by the arrival of color TV. Votes: 0

I'd like to build myself a rocket ship and launch myself into space. Still waiting on the technological advances required for a DIY space flight. Votes: 0

As nuclear and other technological achievements continue to mount, the normal life span will continue to climb. The hourly productivity of the worker will increase. Votes: 0

Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals. Votes: 0

Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble. Votes: 0

His jargon conceals, from him, but not from us, the deep, empty hole in his mind. He uses technological language as a substitute for technique. Votes: 0

The American Civil War produced carnage that has often been thought reserved for the combination of technological proficiency and inhumanity characteristic of a later time. Votes: 0

What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience. Votes: 0

There might be new technology, but technological progress itself was nothing new - and over the years it had not destroyed jobs, but created them. Votes: 0

Most technological advances in our life now come from serendipitous discoveries. That is a contraction of rocket technology and computer technology and atomic clock technology. Votes: 0

The clustering of technological innovation in time and space helps explain both the uneven growth among nations and the rise and decline of hegemonic powers. Votes: 0

When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy. Votes: 0

Indeed, through fundamental advances in bionics in this century, we will set the technological foundation for an enhanced human experience, and we will end disability. Votes: 0

David Brin is a technological determinist. He thinks that we understand the trend and we need to hop on it. I don't have any such illusions. Votes: 0

Every giant leap for mankind resulting from a technological advance requires a commensurate step in the opposite direction - a counterweight to ground us in humanity. Votes: 0

End-users not technologies shape the market. Consequently marketers need to stay abreast not only of technological developments but also of the way people respond to them. Votes: 0

The media is the thought-form of the technological society, and it finds nothing it does to be laughable, a sure sign that it is not human. Votes: 0

When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation. Votes: 0

In global warming, I think everyone is scratching their heads - are there technological things that can be brought to bear that can make a difference? Votes: 0

Such technological tools ... are helping us now in the hot war against terrorists who would bomb this theater if they had the capacity to do so. Votes: 0

I'm convinced more than ever that capitalism, with its technological development, has not been an advance toward freedom but has been an enormous setback of freedom. Votes: 0

There is no escaping from ourselves. The human dilemma is as it has always been, and we solve nothing fundamental by cloaking ourselves in technological glory. Votes: 0

The computer is the most extraordinary of man's technological clothing; it's an extension of our central nervous system. Beside it, the wheel is a mere hula-hoop. Votes: 0

Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport. Votes: 0

The whole technological revolution and evolution gives man tremendous capabilities for good, and it also gives individuals tremendous capability to carry out what result in lethal action. Votes: 0

I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money. Votes: 0

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that. Votes: 0

There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments. Votes: 0

I have always felt that, aside from research that violates universal human mores, when it comes to technological applications, that which can be done will be done. Votes: 0

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence. Votes: 0

Establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society and work to their heart's content. Votes: 0

By holding down natural wage growth in labor-intensive industries, immigration serves as a subsidy for low-wage, low-productivity ways of doing business, retarding technological progress and productivity growth. Votes: 0

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks. Votes: 0

Technology tends to fuel the imagination. People with a technological bent can get excited by sometimes the most hazardous technologies, if they think they can harness them safely. Votes: 0

There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible. Votes: 0

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing. Votes: 0

What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks. Votes: 0

In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow! Votes: 0

Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source of technological innovation, jobs, and wealth. Votes: 0

I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement. Votes: 0

Technology is a many-headed monster and perhaps it would be better to regress to a safer past and avoid technological change; it is tempting to think like that. Votes: 0

Americans have a tendency to take much of our long-term economic, technological, medical, and social progress for granted, while assuming problems will only get worse. This is unwarranted. Votes: 0

We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components. Votes: 0

A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight. Votes: 0

When I was coming out of college, storytelling was very much something you did with pencil and paper, so the technological platform versatility, I think, is really valuable. Votes: 0

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new. Votes: 0

The major problems facing the development of products that are safer, less prone to error, and easier to use and understand are not technological: they are social and organizational. Votes: 0

Switzerland has no competition. It sits in the middle of Europe, it has the highest technological development, it's legally safe and the political circumstances are never going to change. Votes: 0

Because of the disruption phenomenon - technological progress outstripping the ability of customers to utilize it - the general tendency is for the money to migrate toward the subsystems. Votes: 0

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty. Votes: 0

There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations. Votes: 0

Studios and networks who ignore either shift — whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement — will be left behind, Votes: 0

The Soviet Union and its empire disappeared in large part because its smokestack economy could no longer keep up with the technological progress of the world's major economic powers. Votes: 0

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. Votes: 0

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness. Votes: 0

In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time. Votes: 0

We are at the dawn of a technological arms race, an arms race between people who are using technology for good and those who are using it for ill. Votes: 0

In technological development, in production of material goods and creature comforts, we've challenged the very gods, but psychologically, emotionally, we're scarcely more than chimpanzees with bulldozers, baboons with big bombs. Votes: 0

The Phantom Menace is not a masterpiece, but it's an example of how imagination, craftsmanship, and technological bravura can fashion superior entertainment out of something that is far from flawless. Votes: 0

I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions. Votes: 0

An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technological development. Votes: 0

We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances. Votes: 0

Neither the military might nor the economic and technological development makes a nation great. It is made great by it's citizens with Self Respect and Integrity ingrained in their lives. Votes: 0

The Church welcomes technological progress and receives it with love, for it is an indubitable fact that technological progress comes from God and, therefore, can and must lead to Him. Votes: 0

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. Votes: 0

A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road. Votes: 0

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous. Votes: 0

The sun as the expression of old world energy is torn down from the heavens by modern man, who by virtue of his technological superiority creates his own energy source. Votes: 0

The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation. Votes: 0

For example, we have developed an artistic and a literary culture. Nevertheless, the ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. Votes: 0

Our human inventions astound, our technological advancements are staggering,and we have amassed great wealthbut, it is only through Love that hearts are transformed, respect is fostered, and lasting peace achieved... Votes: 0

People are now layering all kinds of different things together. Eighteenth century, 19th century, rustic, modern. Three dimensional printed pieces, very high end technological pieces, but mixed with local artisan stuff. Votes: 0

The work requires a moderately large investment in technological and theoretical developments and long periods of time to carry them out, without the pressure to achieve quick or short term results. Votes: 0

Our human inventions astound, our technological advancements are staggering,and we have amassed great wealthbut, it is only through Love that hearts are transformed, respect is fostered, and lasting peace achieved Votes: 0

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together. Votes: 0

Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur. Votes: 0

I've had many failures in terms of technological... business... and even research failures. I really believe that entrepreneurship is about being able to face failure, manage failure and succeed after failing. Votes: 0

We're an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science and technological literacy is important for security, as well. Votes: 0

There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity. Votes: 0

If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared. Votes: 0

Scientific and technological "solutions" which poison the environment or degrade the social structure and man himself are of no benefit, no matter how brilliantly conceived or how great their superficial attraction. Votes: 0

This understanding, underlying constitutional interpretation since the New Deal, reflects the Constitution's demands for structural flexibility sufficient to adapt substantive laws and institutions to rapidly changing social, economic, and technological conditions. Votes: 0

A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income Votes: 0

People tend not to disassociate the technological issues from pure scientific research, so that science sometimes gets a bad name for things that science doesn't deserve having a bad name for. Votes: 0

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress. Votes: 0

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production. Votes: 0

There are fashions in building. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time. Votes: 0

Liberty and morality had to win their way slowly over many centuries, until finally expanding liberty made possible the great technological advance of the Industrial Revolution and the flowering of modern capitalism. Votes: 0

Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame. Votes: 0

Making an art out of your technological life is the way to solve the problem of technology...Art is anything that you can do well. Anything that you can do with Quality. Votes: 0

A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible that the future of human civilization depends on the receipt of interstellar messages. Votes: 0

I basically look at how exponential emerging technological changes runs counter-intuitive to the way our linear brains make projections about change, and so we don't realize how fast the future is coming. Votes: 0

Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company - from a one-person agency to a small firm, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspect of Internet-based businesses. Votes: 0

The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard. Votes: 0

Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not very expensive answer to the efforts to build missile defense. Votes: 0

Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital. Votes: 0

You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. Votes: 0

With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people think they are catching up. Votes: 0

Such manifestations I account as representing the creative leadership of the new forces of thought and appreciation which attend changes in technological pattern and therefore of the pattern of human relationships in society. Votes: 0

Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction. Votes: 0

People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have reached at least our level of technological development. Votes: 0

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. Votes: 0

I have seen that community and a close relationship with the land can enrich human life beyond all comparison with material wealth or technological sophistication. I have learned that another way is possible. Votes: 0

I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological advances occur, the wisdom of these plays will never be obsolete. Votes: 0

While the comforts of modern civilization and technological success or economic success seem at the moment quite fulfilling, I can assure you that all of these things are transitory and will fall away. Votes: 0

My last novel, 'The Keep,' was very explicitly technological, about the quality of living in a state constantly surrounded by disembodied presences, and I was thinking very much about the online experience. Votes: 0

In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture. Votes: 0

The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two. Votes: 0

Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people need not accept our limitations, but can transcend disability through technological innovation. Votes: 0

Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language. Votes: 0

Man's civility is lagging behind his technological ability. It could mean disaster and catastrophe for the whole world. We're all sinners, everyone of us, and a radical change is needed for all of us. Votes: 0

Brexit and Trump have brought the problems of capitalism into sharp relief, but both are only making things worse. Take the investment challenge - businesses invest where there they see technological or market opportunity. Votes: 0

We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate. Votes: 0

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. Votes: 0

Why would our brains have this capacity to sense the oneness of the universe, a sense that can be induced in many ways, even technological, if that capacity did not reflect an external reality? Votes: 0

Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place. Votes: 0

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this. Votes: 0

If millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of American Idol through text messages and the Web, then why not harness similar technological tools to encourage discourse on the political landscape? Votes: 0

We would not be enjoying those cellphones and those tablets at the price where they are had it not been for globalization, both in terms of trade and in terms of constant technological innovation. Votes: 0

If millions of Americans choose to weigh in on the outcome of 'American Idol' through text messages and the Web, then why not harness similar technological tools to encourage discourse on the political landscape? Votes: 0

My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change. Votes: 0

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite. Votes: 0

Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been. Votes: 0

I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't forbidden by the over-arching laws of physics we usually eventually find a technological way of doing it. Votes: 0

As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there will be particular companies that will not be able to cope with a new environment. Votes: 0

I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop. Votes: 0

We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative. Votes: 0

Mass application of technological innovations, which constitutes much of the distinctive substance of modern economic growth, is closely connected with the further progress of science, in its turn the basis for additional advance in technology. Votes: 0

Swiss watchmaking and Silicon Valley is a marriage of technological innovation with watchmaking credibility. Our collaboration provides a rich host of synergies, forming a win-win partnership, and the potential for our three companies is enormous, Votes: 0

Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications without attempting to predict how the thing might actual work. Votes: 0