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Technologies tend to undermine community and encourage individualism. -- Henry Mintzberg
Technologies are invented to make our lives easier, not our choices. -- Adam Jensen
Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life -- danah boyd
Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users. -- Marshall McLuhan
Technology is technology. Technology doesn't have a, it is not good or bad. Technologies are tools. -- Alfonso Cuaron
Technologies are not merely aids to human activity, but also powerful forces acting to reshape that activity and its meaning. -- Langdon Winner
Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away. -- Clara Shih
Technologies for stimulating the brain and controlling the mind can have benefits, but they have a dark side that military and intelligence planners have been exploiting for decades -- Nick Begich
In my first company, Seer Technologies, where I was chief technology officer, we shied away from the media. We watched every word and were guarded in front of journalists. -- Vivek Wadhwa
New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us. -- Marc Garneau
Technologies that exist between man and nature in a simple form and those that enable the interaction with other technologies are becoming significantly more complex and create their own information systems. -- Hubert Burda
Technologies of easy travel give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Technologies evolve in the strangest ways. Computers were created to calculate ballistics equations, and now we use them to create amusing illusions. Creating amusing illusions is a big business if you play it right. -- Howard Rheingold
Technologies like PayPal foster competition because they enable people to shift their funds from one jurisdiction to another, and I think that ultimately will lead to a world in which there's less government power and therefore more individual control. -- Peter Thiel
Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars. -- Michio Kaku
Technologies, including cell phones, have the potential to help millions of poor people out of poverty by enabling access to a range of safe, affordable financial services - most importantly, savings accounts - that have long been out of reach. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Technologies first equipped the territorial body with bridges, aqueducts, railways, highways, airports, etc. Now that the most powerful technologies are becoming tiny - microtechnologies, all technologies can invade the body. These micro-machines will feed the body. Research is being conducted in order to create additional memory for instance. -- Paul Virilio
Let students use technologies in the classroom. -- Weili Dai
Customers require the effective integration of technologies to simplify their workflow and boost efficiency. -- Anne M. Mulcahy
Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable. -- Diane Ackerman
The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs. -- Geoff Mulgan
There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea. -- Robert Ballard
In the United States, resources exist to retrain displaced workers and promote the development of technologies that create new job opportunities for American workers. -- Oscar Arias
To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines. -- Steve Jobs
If we look at the life cycle of technologies, we see an early period of over-enthusiasm, then a 'bust' when disillusionment sets in, followed by the real revolution. -- Ray Kurzweil
We need to shift the paradigm from reactive technologies to more integrative solutions that deal with the variety and complexity of the threats that are out there today. -- John W. Thompson
When grand plans for scientific and defence technologies are made, do the people in power think about the sacrifices the people in the laboratories and fields have to make? -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Mobile communications and pervasive computing technologies, together with social contracts that were never possible before, are already beginning to change the way people meet, mate, work, war, buy, sell, govern and create. -- Howard Rheingold
Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to the defence of deniers and cranks. -- Nicholas Stern
With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories. -- Lucy Walker
Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps. -- Barry Ritholtz
The only reason we don't notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies - pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire - is that they're old, so we've ceased to notice their effects. -- Clive Thompson
Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping. -- Howard Rheingold
Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission. -- James Buchan
As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America. -- Debbie Stabenow
The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work. -- Marc Benioff
The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies. -- Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
What the American public thinks is very important to the future of global health. Many people are moved by the idea that there is unnecessary suffering in the world, and we could do a lot to stop it. We have the technologies necessary to stop most of the suffering. -- Paul Farmer
The same products, services or technologies can fail or succeed depending on the business model you choose. Exploring the possibilities is critical to finding a successful business model. Settling on first ideas risks the possibility of missing potential that can only be discovered by prototyping and testing different alternatives. -- Alexander Osterwalder
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity. -- Joshua Foer
We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like. -- Honor Harger
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that. -- Steve Jobs
When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I've been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, 'I don't want to buy that.' There's a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences. -- Howard Stringer
Social engineering bypasses all technologies, including firewalls. -- Kevin Mitnick
There is huge demand for artificial intelligence technologies. -- Yuri Milner
I'm fascinated with materials, with processes, with technologies. -- Marc Newson
Use the new technologies for the old purposes. -- Leon Wieseltier
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Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies. -- Steve Wozniak
Art is obsolete now. New technologies are taking over. -- Jeff Koons
We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies. -- E. O. Wilson
We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies. -- Marshall McLuhan
Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work. -- Paul Virilio
Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies. -- David Puttnam
To change the world , we need to combine Ancient wisdom with new technologies -- Paulo Coelho
A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights. -- Edmund Phelps
Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies. -- Daniel Yergin
I'm excited to see how current and future technologies revolutionize the way we learn. -- LeVar Burton
There's no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural. -- John Michael Greer
We not only need to train people, we also need to develop deflection technologies. -- Rusty Schweickart
All of the clean technologies are known, it's a question of simply applying them. -- Barry Commoner
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple. -- Freeman Dyson
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. -- Bruce Schneier
Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature -- Al Gore
Cybersecurity is not only a question of developing defensive technologies but offensive technologies, as well. -- Donald Trump
The problem is that there are very few technologies that essentially haven't changed for 60, 70 years. -- Robert Sternberg
Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. -- Aaron Koblin
Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression. -- Criss Jami
I'm definitely more interested in technologies that are more accessible, that are as accessible as possible. -- John Lindsay
History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies. -- Barry Ritholtz
Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them. -- John Maeda
It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
We are products not of our technologies, but of our choices about how to use them. -- Mal Fletcher
In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption. -- Tim Ferriss
When new technologies impose themselves on societies long habituated to older technologies, anxieties of all kinds result. -- Marshall McLuhan
Participating in the newest communications technologies becomes compulsory if you want to remain part of the culture. -- David Porush
Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership. -- Marco Arment
Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy. -- J. G. Ballard
In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption. -- Tim Ferriss
Government needs to do two things: put a price on carbon and invest heavily in new technologies. -- Van Jones
Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource. -- Amory Lovins
The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering. -- Ralph Merkle
Many new technologies come with a promise to change the world, but the world refuses to cooperate. -- Henry Petroski
The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become. -- Van Jones
People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. -- Aldous Huxley
No place in the US better exemplifies the ethos to engineer new digital technologies than Silicon Valley -- John Maeda
Israel has the best engineers in the world... I view Israel as a tremendous source of technologies -- Douglas H. Bosco
I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity. -- Sebastian Thrun
So many of the things I've predicted were technologies that were just sitting right in front of us. -- Joshua Lederberg
Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement. -- Al Franken
One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out. -- Steve Jobs
Whole new businesses will emerge around breakthrough products as revolutionary technologies accelerate capitalism's creative destruction of slower industries. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Diverse groups of countries can do a lot by trading amongst themselves, exploiting differences in costs, resources, and technologies. -- Daniel Altman
We humans have always been resilient. With each industrial revolution, we have adapted, creating new jobs with new technologies. -- Hari Sreenivasan
The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in. -- Andrei Codrescu
Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created. -- Jason Calacanis
All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live -- Vandana Shiva
You can use a lot of different technologies to create something that doesn't really have a lot of value. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
If it's in people's interest to invest in renewables and invest in clean technologies, I'm convinced it will happen. -- Sally Jewell
Personally, I believe that government, rather than money, tends to be the primary factor limiting the development of new technologies. -- Charles Platt
Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. -- Jesse James Garrett
Just as there's some technologies that jeopardize revenue for traditional products, there are also technologies that can significantly lower costs. -- Norman Pearlstine
As smart technologies become more intrusive, they risk undermining our autonomy by suppressing behaviors that someone somewhere has deemed undesirable. -- Evgeny Morozov
The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them. -- Carlos Ghosn
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea. -- Jacqueline Leo
I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new. -- Martha Stewart
With the revolution in information technology, with the revolution in transport technologies, I think just geography has lost its all significance. -- Manmohan Singh
I develop artificially intelligent technologies, along with educational and game software and let the business people take it where they will. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm. -- Barack Obama
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Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves. -- Jason Epstein
Health innovation, enabled by digital technologies to build big consumer service brands, is an incredibly interesting, complex problem to work on. -- John Sculley
The same technologies enabling us to work together at a distance are creating the expectation to do better at governing ourselves. -- Beth Simone Noveck
It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems. -- Terence McKenna
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... we're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept. -- Douglas Rushkoff
Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions. -- Evgeny Morozov
I think so long as fossil fuels are cheap, people will use them and it will postpone a movement towards new technologies. -- Paul Krugman
Why did the Clinton Administration continue to liberalize export controls on sensitive technologies even after it learned that China had stolen designs? -- Charles Bass

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