The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research — namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with obtaining concrete results, whenever he is hard pressed by reality, he...

The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice; it’s technology.

We have won the time lottery of the last 4 billion years.

He didn’t like to fly–the noise and vibration gave him a headache–but, as with anything new, he was excited by the strangeness of it. The disjuncture intrigued him: stepping through a door in one place,...

If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

Much has been made about the death of the novel and the end of literature as it’s seen to be assailed by technology, by the web, by the many and varied new forms of entertainment...

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Technology is very interesting, particularly the large caps, because valuations are said to be at 5 year lows. There’s been a lot of chatter that 2006 might be their year because they’ve been low for...

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless.

If Paul Revere had been a modern day citizen, he wouldn’t have ridden down Main Street. He would have tweeted.

It’s the same type of technology, now just on steroids.

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

Hi there,” squeaked a precocious little voice, “you are speaking to Chloe Fusakawa, and I have just learned how to answer the phone.

The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life. This project is ambitious but technically feasible. It is also instrumentally rational and ethically mandatory. The metabolic pathways of...

At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few...

Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don’t.There’s just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.

The novel was set in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted…. To write a book set in...

The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often; books don’t

As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.

Death – Is only when the spirit evolves to a higher state that the body becomes old technology.

Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it’s slowed everything down, paradoxically.

The extraordinary triumph of the cellphone among India’s poor stemmed from its ability to enable a most mundane human need, which is to chat with other people. And when the poor chat, it is not...

your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love.

A lot of the machines that Google is built on—commodity is the polite word for them—they’re regular PCs and so they’re not always the most reliable.

What this technology did was take away the guesswork, … It allowed them to have — and know that they were going to have — a healthy child and one that would be matched.

Every scrape, site, range and page; every game, download, hack, song, movie and virrie on the Web. Everything on your phone. Everything on your ‘puta. Even the content directories of your cupboards. Almost every system...

First we build the tools, then they build us.

Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That’s like asking if submarines swim. If you call it swimming then robots will think, yes.

We are producing these missiles and don’t need foreign technology for that.

in spite of the phenomenal growth of the Internet and mobile devices, I still believe television will continue to be an incredibly important medium for the Church. After all, over the last century, radio never...

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

The overwhelming noise we live with has made a fundamental pleasure like sex somehow less exciting, less satisfying, than it was for our libidinous forefathers and mothers. It seems to me that for sex and...

The business we’re in is more sociological than technological, more dependent on workers’ abilities to communicate with each other than their abilities to communicate with machines.

Analogy of scientist who try to reach the higher speed: A child ant is tired after the long walk in a body of a jet. It tries to find a method of traveling faster than...

I believe that we can complete our analysis so that we can make a technology selection and vendor selection sometime late this year.

Based on the experience of history and civilization of mankind, which is more important for Muslims today, to no longer busy discussing the greatness that Muslims achieved in the past, or debating who first discovered...

My life will have been a succession of lives, as if I have had several lives, a multiplicity of stories and roles. I have not ceased to have changes of life.

Personal value is the kind of value we receive from being active instead of passive, creative instead of consumptive.

There’s no zero-emissions coal. There is a technology called clean coal, which is getting very, very close.

One of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.

It was uncanny. You press a button and a man drops dead a hundred meters away. It seemed hollow and remote, falsifying everything. It was a trick of the lenses. The man is an accurate...

We still use 1940s technology to develop influenza vaccines.

But the Turing test cuts both ways. You can’t tell if a machine has gotten smarter or if you’ve just lowered your own standards of intelligence to such a degree that the machine seems smart....

The doors magically opened without the assistance of modern electronic devices. Instead, they cleverly employed doormen.

It’s supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.

Within a few years we will show you a real vehicle that really works with hybrid technology for trucks and buses.

Extrapolated, technology wants what life wants:Increasing efficiencyIncreasing opportunityIncreasing emergenceIncreasing complexityIncreasing diversityIncreasing specializationIncreasing ubiquityIncreasing freedomIncreasing mutualismIncreasing beautyIncreasing sentienceIncreasing structureIncreasing evolvability

Technology spending by most companies is still weak, and the technology companies out there are feeling that,

When you can incorporate a medical device to an existing technology, it’s a logical step. Patients will already be very familiar with it because it exists in their lives.

Books don’t need batteries.