People Quotes

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.

~ Preet Bharara

I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

~ Alex Steffen

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 people's minds.

~ Daniel H. Wilson

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

~ Thomas Sowell

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

~ Glen Hansard

A revolution is to bring on change and we're spiritual people trying to bring on spiritual change. It might sound like I'm a dreamer, but economic models have reached their height of evolution. Technology has evolved. What hasn't evolved is mankind's spirituality; everything is from 3,000 years ago.

~ Damian Marley

We often hear people talk about the concept of 'uberization,' where a new technology completely turns an industry on its head and forces us to rethink the way things have always been done. No industry will remain untouched by these forces.

~ Klaus Schwab

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

~ Laura Esquivel

Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.

~ Naveen Jain

The space elevator's not just another competitive technology, promoted by people who simply like the idea of diminishing the luster of the thrusters. It would open wide the doors to space.

~ Seth Shostak

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

~ Alan Watts

People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we're not reading, and in fact we're not really communicating, either. We're not talking to each other. There's just all these screens and wires and technology in between.

~ Lee Smith

We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.

~ Larry Page

I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.

~ Harmony Korine

If technology and communications can adapt to people's modern lifestyles, then why can't our labor laws follow suit? Private-sector businesses continue to live under an outdated federal mandate that says the only way to compensate for overtime is through cash wages.

~ Renee Ellmers

The embrace of a new technology by ordinary people leads inevitably to its embrace by people of malign intent.

~ Charles C. Mann

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

~ Laura Esquivel

We are not overpopulated in an absolute sense; we've got the technology for 10 billion, probably 15 billion people, to live on this planet and live good lives. What we haven't done is developed our technology.

~ David Attenborough

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

~ Daniel Yergin

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

~ Judith Martin

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught.

~ Jaron Lanier

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

~ Penny Marshall

So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.

~ James Dyson

All of the people who are using their BlackBerries or their iPhones, Facebook, all of the people who are sitting in cafes and hotels rooms doing their work, they're all using wireless technology, and we shouldn't assume that the only way of the future is high speed cable.

~ Tony Abbott

The biggest challenge for cyborgs is to be socially accepted. Society needs to accept that there are people who wish to use technology as part of the body.

~ Neil Harbisson

Just as computer technology and the Internet created whole new industries and extraordinary benefits for people that extend into almost every realm of human endeavor from education to transportation to medicine, genetics will undoubtedly benefit people everywhere in ways we can't even imagine but know will surely occur.

~ Anne Wojcicki

You just have to adapt, and you have to realize where people are going to actually play their games. It used to just be Nintendo and PlayStation, and now it's all kind of devices. So you've got to learn to adapt what you know from the technology into those areas... I've been wanting to do a mobile game for a long time.

~ Tony Hawk

I think that for all of the dangers of technology spreading, I think it is more dangerous in some ways that it doesn't. My simple reason for that is we've got 7 billion people on the planet, and we have these very serious problems, and I think we don't know who's going to have the answers to the problems that are coming around the bend.

~ Daniel Suarez

If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes.

~ Anita Borg

As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.

~ James Surowiecki

I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.

~ Palmer Luckey

Technology favors horrible people.

~ Douglas Coupland

Technology is such a broad kind of term, it really applies to so many things, from the electric light to running cars on oil. All of these different things can be called technology. I have kind of a love-hate relationship with it, as I expect most people do. With the computer, I spend so many hours sitting in front of a computer.

~ Jeff Bridges

I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.

~ Alejandro González Iñárritu

Each of us has a vital role to play in building a world in which the government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

~ Rebecca Mackinnon

I'm very good with technology, I always have been, and with machines in general. They seem not threatening like other people find them, but a source of fun and amusement.

~ Brian Eno

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet.

~ Brian Eno

I'm always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven't thought of doing yet. I think that's sort of a characteristic of the way I've worked ever since I started.

~ Brian Eno

I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.

~ Jack Ma

In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

~ James Surowiecki