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Technology

If your goal is anything but profitability – if its to be big, or to grow fast, or to become a technology leader – youll hit problems. – Michael Porter

Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesnt matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state. – Iain Banks

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. Im using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that. – Laurie Anderson

We cant blame the technology when we make mistakes. – Tim Berners Lee

If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, well do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions. – Bjorn Lomborg

I dont want technology to take me so far that I dont have to use my brain anymore. Its like GPS taking over and losing your internal compass. Its always got to be tactile, still organic. – Andrew Bird

In the earliest days, this was a project I worked on with great passion because I wanted to solve the Defense Departments problem: it did not want proprietary networking and it didnt want to be confined to a single network technology. – Vinton Cerf

Ive 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. – Baz Luhrmann

I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I dont think that many designers get to do that. – Stella McCartney

Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace. – Ron Kind

I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But weve got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California. – Meg Whitman

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study – you can get a degree in robotics – and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in peoples minds. – Daniel H. Wilson

The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a natural level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature? – Daniel H. Wilson

The dissemination of advanced implantable technology will likely be just as ruthlessly democratic as the ailments it is destined to treat. Meaning that, someday soon, we may have a new class of very smart, very fast people – yesterdays disabled and elderly. – Daniel H. Wilson

I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in Amped about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that were really going to deal with soon. – Daniel H. Wilson

Weve been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. Were finally coming into this moment where its coming inside our body for the first time in history. – Daniel H. Wilson

In my mind I needed a symbol of todays technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so thats where Places of Power came into being. – John Sexton

But some great records are are being made with todays technology and there are still great artists among us. Likewise there are artists today who are so reliant on modern technology, they wouldnt have emerged when recording was more organic. – Tony Visconti

I enjoy privacy. I think its nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and Id like to preserve some of that. – Maggie Q

Ive been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology. – Mike Shinoda