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Tech companies tend to do tech best. -- Sam Altman
Tech companies don't exist in a bubble; they draw from and feed into a larger community. Ideally, the relationship is symbiotic. -- Ryan Holmes
During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times. -- Bobby Knight
So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear. -- Jesse Jackson
Tech never comes back the same. -- Samuel J. Palmisano
Tech is all about building human connections. -- Padmasree Warrior
I am a Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech. -- Mark Zupan
How can you rank BYU No. 1? Who'd they play - Bo Diddley Tech? -- Bryant Gumbel
They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech. -- James Stockdale
Prohibiting guns on campus made the Virginia Tech students less safe, not more. -- Ron Paul
There are so many things going on this week, ... It's great for Virginia Tech. -- Frank Beamer
Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me. -- Mitchell Baker
Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor. -- Alex Steffen
Oakland's time is coming. In fact, Oakland's time is already here. Tech is coming to Oakland, and it's terribly exciting. -- Mitch Kapor
I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home. -- Matt Kuchar
Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years. -- Edward Zander
While shooting 'Selma,' I would train on my off time with the assistant men's track and field coach at Georgia Tech. -- Stephan James
Then, [my son] Michael came along and he played a little bit of everything. He went to Georgia Tech on a golf scholarship. -- Jack Nicklaus
Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). Its the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything. -- Marc Andreessen
Tech stocks are trading at a 30-year-low when compared to the multiples of industrials (companies). It's the weirdest bubble when everyone hates everything. -- Marc Andreessen
I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into. -- Jeff Mangum
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. -- David Coleman
Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws. -- Robert Kirkman
To me, Los Angeles and California and executive power are about big, open warehouse buildings. Tech companies are buying oversized buildings, because they project growth immediately. -- James Pearse Connelly
Big Tech's nonchalance about copyright violation tramples over people like my wife and me, who strive to make a living in the great tradition of the creative realm. -- Peter Lerangis
If you think of all the publicity about the terrible tragedy of Virginia Tech, we have a Virginia Tech in this country every day. It's just spread across 50 states. -- Michael Bloomberg
I remember bumming rides across town to Georgia Tech, trying to get myself registered, trying to apply for financial aid, trying to get their coaches to watch my film. -- Nick Ferguson
At Sir-Tech I went through the ranks, almost like an apprenticeship. I was very fortunate. The industry was smaller then, and I was able to work alongside some amazing game designers. -- Brenda Brathwaite
While at Cal Tech I talked a lot with Jon Mathews, then a junior faculty member; he taught me how to use the Institute's computer; we also went on hikes together. -- Kenneth G. Wilson
Tech is not looking for inclusion per se, but they're looking for assimilation. They're looking for Blacks and Latinos and women, but they are looking for these groups as versions of themselves. -- Kathryn Finney
I know this golf tournament has my name on it but it's not about me. It's about the Louisiana Tech family. There is nothing greater than being a part of the Bulldog family. -- Terry Bradshaw
There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives. -- Tom Clancy
I started using Twitter about year after its very early adoption and ended up investing in it around that same time. I'm involved with the Tech scene and companies ranging from Facebook, Stumbleupon and Twitter. -- Timothy Ferriss
I started using Twitter about year after its very early adoption and ended up investing in it around that same time. I'm involved with the Tech scene and companies ranging from Facebook, Stumbleupon and Twitter. -- Timothy Ferriss
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Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings. -- Ron Conway
Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.' -- Ron Conway
When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers. -- S.M. Stevens
Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those. -- Bear Bryant
Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it's also an agent for social good. That is why it's important for tech startups to stay informed about, and make a mark on, policies that impact them. -- Ron Conway
I never believed 9/11, because I had engineering training at GA Tech, and I could tell when a building is being blown up by explosives. Any fool can look at those films and see the buildings aren't falling down, they're blowing up. -- Paul Craig Roberts
I went to a Cal Tech party after the 'Facebook' movie came out, and there were kids in dark rooms coding because it was cool again. That movie made it cool to sit in a room at a party and write code. -- Kerry Bishe
For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal but now replaces the sentimental pieties with brusque slogans ("High-Tech!") and unpronounceable programs. All else stays the same. -- Emmett Tyrrell
With Prisoner of Conscience, the focus was - I've worked with Madlib, High Tech, Kanye West, J Dilla. I feel like I've worked with some of the greatest of all time. That's been overlooked. That's been overshadowed by the weight of the lyrics. -- Talib Kweli
Silicon Valley isn't the only game in town. Tech is increasingly decentralized. Around the world, new tech centers with younger companies are able to embrace a different approach to talent: recruit locally, identify homegrown prospects and, in a phrase, bring them along for the ride. -- Ryan Holmes
Doctors...from the Office of Info. Tech. at Harvard U.(:)...Their appraisal of 46 surgical or anesthesia breakthroughs...suggested...only 13% were highly preferred (and)...in nearly half the cases the new therapy was no better than the therapy it replaced. ...About 12% of the innovations increased complications... -- Jeffrey Bland
I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane! -- Bob Livingston
Going vegan was a little tougher for me. The final push came from watching Gary Yourofsky's lecture at Georgia Tech in person. The video is now on YouTube. I constantly show it to people interested in learning about why I choose to live the way I do. -- Andy Lally
Industries with rapid change are the enemy of the investor. Tech businesses, particularly biotech, is a problem from that point of view. All industries work with change, but you should ideally be investing in businesses with a low rate of change, not a high rate of change. -- Mohnish Pabrai
Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off. But by recruiting locally and developing homegrown talent, companies can build something that remains after they're gone. People, skills and a culture of innovation persist. -- Ryan Holmes
I hoping to make it [decision] sometime next week. I love the academics at Tech. I can get a great degree there in engineering. Georgia has the ability to win it all next season. I think I can play early at both schools. It's going to be tough. -- Calvin Johnson
Tech N9ne is worldwide, man, it's the biggest thing ever to me and if it happens to blow as big as I expect, I won't be able to go anywhere. That's what I'm prepared to do, because my goal is to get my music to the world. -- Aaron Dontez Yates
In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off. -- Jill Lepore
Ron Pernick and Clint Wilder have created a compelling vision for a Clean Tech Nation and a roadmap for creating it, even as they surprise and delight readers with a rich account of progress already achieved. I salute their unique combination of technical savvy, practical sense, and imperishable enthusiasm. -- Ralph Cavanagh
I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive. -- Jimmy Fallon
Net neutrality is a concept that the tech industry rallies around, but it is hypocrisy. -- Dave Winer
Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time. -- Richard Rogers
I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes. -- Jack Ma
India has long been an exporter of talent to tech companies... But it is India that's now undergoing its own revolution. -- Sundar Pichai
People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown. -- Walt Mossberg
What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading. -- Vivek Wadhwa
Obama will win the 2012 election, thanks in part to the tech community rallying behind him due to issues like SOPA, visas, and free speech. -- John Battelle
High tech companies that focus on research, development and production will learn that they can be the perfect complement to our world-renowned agriculture heritage. -- Alan Autry
Providing better computer science education in public schools to kids, and encouraging girls to participate, is the only way to rewrite stereotypes about tech and really break open the old-boys' club. -- Ryan Holmes
The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards. -- Kara Swisher
I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer. -- Tadashi Yanai
Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003. -- J. D. Hayworth
There's a toxicity within gaming culture, and also in tech culture, that drives this misogynist hatred, this reactionary backlash against women who have anything to say, especially those who have critiques or who are feminists. -- Anita Sarkeesian
Solyndra's failure isn't a reason for the government to give up on alternative energy, any more than the failure of Pets.com during the Internet bubble means that venture capital should steer clear of tech projects. -- James Surowiecki
I think the next big thing in music, and it's kind of because I come from the tech industry, is actually, I think it's the platform... Spotify is incredibly interesting. I think the platform is becoming the star. -- Brian Chesky
Those companies that don't see the black and brown communities are missing, out of their closed eye, talent, which leads to money and growth. When baseball, football and basketball couldn't see the field, they missed talent and growth. The same is true in the tech industry. -- Jesse Jackson
Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype. -- Niklas Zennstrom
In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team. -- John Salley
Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful. -- Fabrice Grinda
It's strange that we create tech and then we apply it to machines, when we could apply it to ourselves. Cars can now detect if something is behind them, but we don't have this ability. Why are we applying such a simple sense to a car when we could apply it to ourselves? -- Neil Harbisson
IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
I've always been a tech-head. -- Nolan Bushnell
Great tech opportunities happen only once. -- Peter Thiel
Border fence hasn't worked; border patrols & tech have. -- Bill Richardson
I'm a bit of a tech geek myself. -- William Landay
I'm a low-tech man in a high-tech world. -- Phil Robertson
You can do great things with low-tech stuff. -- Laurie Anderson
Sometimes this high-tech world calls for low-tech solutions. -- Christopher Moore
I'm definitely not up-to-date on the high-tech videogame world. -- Rachel Dratch
When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention. -- Gary Vaynerchuk
We humans think linearly but tech trends are exponential. -- Vinod Khosla
Never invest in a tech CEO that wears a suit. -- Peter Thiel
I used to do tech support for MSN in Canada. -- Cory Monteith
Green-tech could be the largest economic opportunity of the 21st Century. -- John Doerr
I read my web blogs, my tech blogs, it's highly educational, folks. -- Rush Limbaugh
Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech." -- Hanna Rosin
The thing with high-tech is that you always end up using scissors. -- David Hockney
Mexico needs schools, rural development, and an independent judiciary, not high-tech weaponry. -- Stephen Kinzer
Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech. -- Hanna Rosin
New tech almost always looks dumb right before it completely changes your life. -- Julian Smith
Shutterstock has the tech ethos. Rex has the relationships, packaging, and merchandising know-how. -- Jon Oringer
The concern here is that financial services become a kind of tech-led Wild West. -- Stephen Hawking
Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama. -- Tina Brown
The transformation of Apple is probably the biggest tech story of the last 15 years. -- Marc Andreessen
Kids and adults pay a price for too much tech, and it's not wholesale. -- Richard Louv
We're excited about how tech can be used to get tech out of the way. -- Astro Teller
I am not a high-tech techie, but I have been told that is not possible. -- Dianne Feinstein
I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news. -- Steve Wozniak
I think you're going to see tech bringing efficiencies to businesses that aren't pure tech. -- Pete Cashmore
Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways. -- Niklas Zennstrom
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The high-tech industry needs the immigration of highly qualified labor, from India, from China, from everywhere. -- Nicholas Bloom
We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. -- Julian Assange
In spite of our high-tech world and efficient procedures, people remain the essential ingredient of life. -- Charles R. Swindoll
History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies. -- Barry Ritholtz
When you come to a place like Kauai, you don't go for a high tech world. -- Todd Rundgren
My grandmother had this high-tech security system - a rusty nail she used to lock the door. -- Quincy Jones
The future will belong to the nature-smart...Th e more high-tech we become, the more nature we need. -- Richard Louv
While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs. -- Ron Eglash
Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something. -- Paola Antonelli
I knew tech was going to be increasingly important in my lifetime, so I focused on it early. -- Robert Scoble
In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup. -- Peter Diamandis
I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease. -- Andrew Weil
Twitter is fun - I'm a tech guy, I love anything new, I'm big on all that stuff. -- Steven Levitan

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