Technological Quotes - Page 6

• The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also offered important stimulation for thought about physics. Following a practical profession is a blessing for people of my type. Because the academic career puts a young person in a sort of compulsory situation to produce scientific papers in impressive quantity, a temptation to superficiality arises that only strong characters are able to resist.

  Albert Einstein

  Blessing, Thinking, Temptation

  "Einstein from 'B' to 'Z'". Book by John Stachel, p. 5, 2001.

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• I was thinking how strange it is that water is one of the best, simplest things on this planet, and still with a simple glass of water you can neutralize so many of the greatest technological advances that we provide. Like with my blackberry, I can get in touch with so many people, but if I dip it in a small glass of water I'm completely disconnected.

  Demetri Martin

  Thinking, Simple, Glasses

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• I liked the idea of working outside, using my body and my mind together. I haven't been disappointed! Land surveying can be very physical work, but there is a strong intellectual and technological component as well.

  Mark Mason

  Strong, Land, Ideas

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.

  George Carlin

  Baseball, Football, Struggle

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.38, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I think markets are mechanisms that determine prices that are necessary for mass heterogenous populations, and markets do generate levels of technological innovation and productivity that is crucial. But when unregulated, they often generate levels of vast inequality and ugly isolation that makes it difficult for people to relate and connect with one another.

  Cornel West

  Thinking, People, Innovation

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• BlogHer would not exist...if we hadn't made a commitment that the only way to work with women in an entirely new record-breaking technological environment was to listen as hard as we could and try to deliver services that they might be interested in.

  Lisa Stone

  Commitment, Records Breaking, Trying

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• [X-ray's] accidental discovery in the late 1800s fits seamlessly into modernity's fascination with, and belief in, the power of technological transparency: the desire to domesticate time (cinema), to preserve and capture the surface of the fleeting (photography), to see inside (x-ray).

  Walead Beshty

  Photography, Discovery, Desire

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• Anyone who has studied the history of technology knows that technological change is always a Faustian bargain: Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided. The invention of the printing press is an excellent example. Printing fostered the modern idea of individuality but it destroyed the medieval sense of community and social integration.

  Neil Postman

  Technology, Technological Change, Ideas

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• Kyoto is dead and has been dead, but that doesn't mean that it hasn't done some real damage and won't continue to do some real damage," "If global warming turns out to be a problem, which I doubt, it won't be solved by making ourselves poorer through energy rationing." "It will be solved through building resiliency and capability into society and through long-term technological innovation and transformation.

  Myron Ebell

  Real, Mean, Kyoto

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• The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.

  Bruce Schneier

  Gaps, Greater, Security

  Bruce Schneier (2012). “Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive”, p.301, John Wiley & Sons

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• The real challenge is not to get people to remember more, but to get them to understand better. We're just now beginning to be able to show what we can implement with technological tools. I think our interest at Apple is to be the provider of the instruments that will help educators and students create and entirely new kind of learning than what we have now.

  John Sculley

  Real, Thinking, Apples

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• Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars. In reading the notebooks of Robert Goddard, I am struck by how powerful his exploratory and scientific motivations were - and how influental speculative ideas, even erroneous ones, can be on the shaping of the future.

  Carl Sagan

  Notebook, Motivation, Powerful

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• It's interesting that the worse things get, the more we believe the next technological fix is going to get us out of it. But it's like being in quicksand: the more you struggle the deeper you sink.

  Sam Keen

  Believe, Struggle, Interesting

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The world is shrinking into a kind of technological funnel. I think people are drawn into their technological devices, and this becomes a kind of subjective universe, into which much of the rest of the world simply does not enter.

  Don DeLillo

  Thinking, People, Doe

  Interviews with Don DeLillo, perival.com. December 15, 2016.

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

  Bruce Sterling

  Clouds, Technological Development, Silver

  1993 Opening statement to the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance,Washington DC, 29 Apr.

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• 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.

  Rollo May

  Men, Violence, Way To Live

  Rollo May (1969). “Love and will”

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• The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Men, Desire, Habit

  Isaiah Berlin (1978). “Karl Marx: His Life and Environment”, p.93, Oxford University Press

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• I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance ... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance ... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth. Usually the resistance came from those groups who stood to lose influence, status, money...as a result of the change. Although they never advanced this as their reason for resisting it. It was always the good of humanity that rested upon their hearts.

  Isaac Asimov

  Taken, Heart, Technological Change

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• The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates - the inhabitants of the marketing zones in the consumer society, television audiences and news magazine readerships, who vote with money at the cash counter rather than with ballot paper at the polling boot. These huge and passive electorates are wide open to any opportunist using the psychological weaponry of fear and anxiety, elements that are carefully blanched out of the world of domestic products and consumer software.

  J. G. Ballard

  Anxiety, Marketing, News

  "A User's Guide to the Millennium". Book by J. G. Ballard, 1996.

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• The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed total of all acts, but from the extraordinary power of exceedingly rare incidents of depravity to inflict catastrophic damage, especially in our technological age when airplanes can become powerful bombs. (An even more evil man, armed only with a longbow, could not have wreaked such havoc at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.)

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Powerful, Airplane, Men

  "I Have Landed". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, p. 390: "The Good People of Halifax", 2002.

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• 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.

  Donald A. Norman

  Errors, Use, Development

  "The Invisible Computer". Book by Don Norman, ch. 10, 1998.

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• 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.

  Helena Norberg-Hodge

  Land, Community, Way

  Helena Norberg-Hodge (2017). “Ancient Futures, 3rd Edition”, p.172, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• 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.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smoking, Innovation, Done

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.127, Vintage

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• 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.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Achievement, Nuclear, Normal

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.598, Best Books on

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

  Colin Angle

  Technological Development, Space, Robots

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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