Technology

For the last 10 years, Ive felt increasing pressure to stop shooting film and start shooting video, but Ive never understood why. Its cheaper to work on film, its far better looking, its the technology thats been known and understood for a hundred years, and its extremely reliable. – Christopher Nolan

I was one of the first authors to have an active website. Im totally obsessed with technology. Im always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail. – Jodi Picoult

I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but its all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology. – Whitfield Diffie

If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you dont understand the problems and you dont understand the technology. – Bruce Schneier

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 didnt think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. – Steve Ballmer

People try to treat technology as an object, and it cant be. It can only be a channel. – Jaron Lanier

Technologists provide tools that can improve peoples lives. But I want to be clear that I dont think technology by itself improves peoples lives, since often Im criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless theres commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, its for naught. – Jaron Lanier

I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way thats very cold and has such an opposite effect. – Jaron Lanier

The most I ever spent on technology is building a studio – I built one at home in Los Angeles. I cant tell you how much exactly, but the whole process is very expensive. – John Legend

Were seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids. – Willie Aames

I definitely think what drives technology companies is the people because in a technology company its always about what are you going to do next. – Marissa Mayer

With all the technology were inventing and what theyre coming up with scientifically, people are having longer lifetimes. Its scary, but in the same sense its also very exciting. – Brittany Murphy

What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you cant imagine until you come up with the idea. Its idea-based. You can do anything. – Robert Rodriguez

I dont find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result. – Robert Smith

Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, theyre willing to relocate and theyre more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology. – Warren Farrell

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre its just another way of recording an actors performance. – Andy Serkis

Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. Its just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads. – David Boies

Look at countries like China, they are determined to dominate all clean technology areas, putting lots of money into wind, solar, electric vehicles and battery storage. Americas political impotence, caused by their terrible partisanship, will see them left behind. – Malcolm Turnbull

We shouldnt build a technology to colour, or grey out, what people say. The media in general is balanced, although there are a lot of issues to be addressed that the media rightly pick up on. – Tim Berners-Lee

I dont know if Ive owned a piece of technology that I hated – I dont think I would have owned it then. – Amber Heard