3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
3 December 2020 William Gibson The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it.
3 December 2020 Peter Guber Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.
3 December 2020 Emilio Estevez In making certain things easier for people, technology has actually demotivated people from using their brains. We have all these devices that keep us connected, and yet we’re more disconnected than ever before. Why is that?
3 December 2020 Ginni Rometty IBM’s long-standing mantra is ‘Think.’ What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me, is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
3 December 2020 Diane Sawyer Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.
3 December 2020 Paul Anka The technology is good and it’s bad. You know what you’re dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don’t quite know what I’m dealing with out there yet.
3 December 2020 Jeff Zucker We’re in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.
3 December 2020 Barry Commoner It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
3 December 2020 Vivian Campbell Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.
3 December 2020 Warren Farrell Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they’re willing to relocate and they’re more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
3 December 2020 Geoff Downes I’ve always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It’s amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.
3 December 2020 Thomas Sowell The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
3 December 2020 Emily Greene Balch Industrialization based on machinery, already referred to as a characteristic of our age, is but one aspect of the revolution that is being wrought by technology.
3 December 2020 Mike Fitzpatrick As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.
3 December 2020 Ed Turner If we had had the right technology back then, you would have seen Eva Braun on the Donahue show and Adolf Hitler on Meet the Press.
3 December 2020 Baz Luhrmann I’ve tried to make ‘Strictly Ballroom’ impossible to date. It does feel a bit ’80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.
3 December 2020 Edward Tufte The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
3 December 2020 Richard Powers What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.
3 December 2020 Nam June Paik Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body’s new membrane of existence.
3 December 2020 Robert Rodriguez Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
3 December 2020 Preet Bharara From coast to coast, the FBI and Securities and Exchange Commission have ensnared people not only at hedge funds, but at technology and pharmaceutical companies, consulting and law firms, government agencies, and even a major stock exchange.
3 December 2020 Leon Kass Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.
3 December 2020 John F. Kerry NAFTA recognizes the reality of today’s economy – globalization and technology. Our future is not in competing at the low-level wage job it is in creating high-wage, new technology jobs based on our skills and our productivity.
