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Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. It explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss. -- Stephen Jay Gould
People see technology as something that will ruin society and culture, but I've always embraced technology. -- Chelsea Peretti
The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them. -- Norman Spinrad
In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day. -- Charles B. Rangel
Thematically, most of my work deals with transition, our culture's constant acceleration, and emotional connection and disconnection through technology. -- Marco Brambilla
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. -- Jackie Chan
By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people. -- Chris Hughes
Samsung's future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative. -- Lee Kun-hee
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness. -- Norman Spinrad
My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology sector and the information technology culture. -- Gene Luen Yang
By definition, startups are not constrained by the limits of established company culture. And so they push boundaries and develop new technologies and ways of doing things. -- J. B. Pritzker
Russia has to have a technology company of global meaning sooner or later. We should take the depth of technical culture we have here and make it available worldwide. -- Arkady Volozh
I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation. -- Jerry Yang
Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature. -- Antonio Damasio
Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when we end it. -- Suzanne Fields
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I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science. -- Ann Druyan
Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Steampunk, the repurposing of Victorian culture and technology for contemporary fun and profit, is so ubiquitous - in media, books, fashion, music, cosplay, and maker culture - that we tend to imagine its superficial aspects are all that define it. -- Paul Di Filippo
My job as artistic director at the Brighton digital agency Lighthouse is all about trying to show that digital culture is about more than just tools and gadgets - it's about perceiving the societal transformations being brought about by technology. -- Honor Harger
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. -- Richard Dawkins
True advocacy is born from culture, not technology or marketing. -- Jay Baer
I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience. -- Billy Joel
Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it. -- Thomas Mann
We were badly held back not just by the technology, but by the culture of journalism. -- Ezra Klein
The mainstream of literary culture in the U.K. is very averse to writing about technology. -- Nick Harkaway
I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history. -- Mohammed Morsi
Mainstream culture is like your mom: It's always a little late to catch on and gets easily confused by technology, but it means well. -- Chris Hardwick
Obviously geek culture is super influential, the web kind of started from a very geeky point of view because geeks are all about technology. -- Felicia Day
Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture. -- George Friedman
...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures. -- Orhan Pamuk
You can overcome wrong technology. Your people have the initiative, they see the problem, no big deal ... you can't overcome bad culture. You've gotta change whoever is in charge. -- James Mattis
It is inescapable that every culture must negotiate with technology, whether it does so intelligently or not. A bargain is struck in which technology giveth and technology taketh away. -- Neil Postman
The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology. -- Antonio Damasio

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