High Technology Quotes

• Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Leadership, Teacher

  1997 In the Independent on Sunday, 12 Oct.

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• Apparently the new high-tech Star Wars toys will be in stores any day now. The toys can talk and are interactive, so they can be easily distinguished from Star Wars fans.

  Conan O'Brien

  Stars, War, New Day

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• Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

  Issey Miyake

  Technology, Hands, Trying

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• In our age of nuclear and biological weapons and the ever more efficient exploitation of nature, the mix of high technology and an ethos of domination could take us to an evolutionary dead end.

  Riane Eisler

  Technology, Ethos, Age

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• The Japanese don't write in alphabetic writing; they write in pictographs. So they never became visual, they stayed in the oral world, which is, everything is part of reality. Which means that they can accept any new technology  -  it's not threatening to them, and they can still continue to maintain their traditional culture, even in the face of high technology.

  Owsley Stanley

  Mean, Writing, Technology

  Source: medium.com

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• It is well known that Russia has many interesting and promising developments in the military-technical sphere. We are ready to deliver the needed equipment and ready for joint cooperation in arms production with Brazilian specialists. This is an area that is very closely linked to high technology in general. In this respect, we hope to develop closer cooperation between the scientific communities in our two countries.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Military, Technology

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• One thing people underestimate is how markets don't allow anyone to do anything except make better and better products. There's not much leeway. The world is a lot more competitive than most people think, particularly in a high-technology area. If a company takes its eye off improving its products, if it tries to do anything that would be viewed as an exercise of power, it'll be displaced very rapidly.

  Bill Gates

  Eye, Exercise, Technology

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• As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.

  Florence King

  Education, Children, Technology

  Florence King (1991). “Lump It Or Leave It”, p.77, Macmillan

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• Unlike return, however, risk is no more quantifiable at the end of an investment that it was at its beginning. Risk simply cannot be described by a single number. Intuitively we understand that risk varies from investment to investment: a government bond is not as risky as the stock of a high-technology company. But investments do not provide information about their risks the way food packages provide nutritional data.

  Seth Klarman

  Technology, Government, Data

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• We were told that all this new high technology, all these new high-tech jobs that we were going to be creating here in the United States of America would stay here, so our people would benefit with the jobs and health care and everything else.

  Tim Ryan

  Jobs, Technology, Creating

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• I think a lot of the high technology is distracting.

  Kool Keith

  Technology, Thinking

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• The more high technology around us, the more the need for human touch...HighTech/High Touch. The principle symbolizes the need for balance between our physical and spiritual reality.

  John Naisbitt

  Spiritual, Technology, Reality

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• While political and cultural factors are important as explanations for differences in national technology policy and industrial practices, emergent trends in science, engineering and management are leading to new paradigms for high-technology innovation in both Japan and the United States.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Technology, Japan, Engineering

  Lewis M. Branscomb, Fumio Kodama (1993). “Japanese innovation strategy: technical support for business visions”, University Press of America

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• We are living in a society that is totally dependent on science and high technology, and yet most of us are effectively alienated and excluded from its workings, from the values of science, the methods of science, and the language of science. A good place to start would be for as many of us as possible to begin to understand the decision-making and the basis for those decisions, and to act independently and not be manipulated into thinking one thing or another, but to learn how to think. That's what science does.

  Ann Druyan

  Technology, Thinking, Decision

  "Neil deGrasse Tyson and Executive Producer Ann Druyan Talk COSMOS: A SPACETIME ODYSSEY, Public Appetite for Science, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 17, 2014.

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• To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, U.S.A. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up on another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology.

  Ronald Reagan

  Technology, Opportunity, Data

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• We need to encourage investors to invest in high-technology startups.

  James Dyson

  Technology, Needs, Investors

  "Expressing Technology: A Roundtable With Sir James Dyson". Interview with Tim Carmody, www.wired.com. September 19, 2011.

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• The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.

  Robert Harris

  Cutting, Technology, World

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• High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

  Edward Abbey

  Spring, Technology, Simple

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their own. Such sincerely held beliefs, peer pressures, and the harsh demands that the work itself places on time and energy all tend to discourage such people from acquiring a similarly thorough knowledge of alternative policies and the need to discuss them.

  Amory Lovins

  Technology, Thorough Knowledge, People

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• Just as one year in a dog's life is equivalent to seven years in a human life, one year in the high-technology business is like seven years in any other industry.

  Regis McKenna

  Life, Dog, Business

  Regis McKenna (1985). “The Regis touch: million-dollar advice from America's top marketing consultant”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  War, Technology, Selfishness

  "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

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• The way we're really going to grow the economy is to invest in people, to invest in innovation, to have the federal government put money in the kind of research that will create the new high-technology, bio-technology industries that will create the millions of new jobs.

  Joe Lieberman

  Jobs, Technology, Government

  Joe Lieberman at Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at Private University in New York City, New York, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2003.

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• Too few people recognize that the high technology so celebrated today is essentially a mathematical technology.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Technology, People, Today

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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

  Technology, Thinking, Views

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