Technology Quotes

The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it.

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.

I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.

I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.

I mean, technology is amoral. It has no morality.

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.

And this is one way to do technology forecasting; get a sense of where technology is, and then anticipate the next upturn.

My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.