"We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies."
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"Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net."
"Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet."
"It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do."
"The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier."
"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG."
"Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes... that reflect the technology around me."
"I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it."
"WHY did we start doing WHAT we’re doing in the first place, and WHAT can we do to bring our cause to life considering all the technologies and market opportunities available today?"
"Whatever the country, capitalist or socialist, man was everywhere crushed by technology, made a stranger to his own work, imprisoned, forced into stupidity."
"The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment."
"The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple."
"The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction."
"The Commission endorses prevention as the principal strategy to use in deterring illegal entries. We applaud the efforts of innovative Border Patrol leaders such as Silvestre Reyes with Operation Hold the Line in El Paso. Operation Hold the Line demonstrated that a strategic use of personnel and technology can combine at our land border, as it has for many years at our airports, to reduce unauthorized crossings."
"People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that matters. It's the acceleration."
"It may seem daunting, but I am a prisoner of hope. We are more connected than ever before, we have more knowledge, and there are solutions if we work together. Today's technology is a great asset in encouraging global cooperation and understanding."
"The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed.... But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait."
"A great lathe operator commands several times the wage of an average lathe operator, but a great writer of software code is worth 10,000 times the price of an average software writer."
"Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time."
"The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life."