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Technology Quotes

Technology Quotes

1. The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. - Bill Gates

2. Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. - R. Buckminster Fuller

3. Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. - Aldous Huxley

4. An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us. - Elon Musk

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

6. Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. - Alvin Toffler

7. People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware. - Alan Kay

8. We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan

9. Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them. - Steve Jobs

10. Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone. - Steven Spielberg

11. Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported? - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

12. If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it. - Lyndon B. Johnson

13. Information technology is at the core of how you do your business and how your business model itself evolves. - Satya Nadella

14. I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion. - Dalai Lama

15. I'm interested in things that change the world or that affect the future and wondrous, new technology where you see it, and you're like, 'Wow, how did that even happen? How is that possible?' - Elon Musk

16. The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income. - Narendra Modi

17. Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change. - Larry Page

18. There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on. - Mark Zuckerberg

19. Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc. - N. R. Narayana Murthy

20. I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it. - Nicolas Cage

21.. Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. - Niels Bohr

22. It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. - John von Neumann

23. Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other. - Bill Gates

24. The spending in science and technology need to be to increased. - Atal Bihari Vajpayee

25. See, technology can advance yield and productivity, but only public policy can advance the income of farmers. There has to be a synergy between technology and public policy. - M. S. Swaminathan

26. Storytelling is storytelling. You still play by the same narrative rules. The technology is completely different. I don't use one piece of technology that I used when I started directing. - James Cameron

27. Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born. - Alan Kay

28. Genetic modification has many different areas, for example in medicine, and Britain is at the leading edge of this new technology. I don't know, but people tell me, it could indeed by the leading science of the 21st century. All I say to people is: 'Just keep an open mind and let us proceed according to genuine scientific evidence.' - Tony Blair

29. It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field. - Stephen Covey

30. MGR's rule took care of the poor, the downtrodden, and the middle class. I have faith that I, too, can provide that rule. With the help of technology and the support of youngsters, resourceful people, and intellectuals, I, too, can provide that kind of a rule. - Rajinikanth

31. Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal. -  Tom Hanks

32. The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety. - A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.

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