#tech

Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies). ↗

— Janet Napolitano

#already #because #body #call #christmas

It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. ↗

— John von Neumann

#although #appear #be careful #careful #computer

The violence or the vaudeville style of comedy is a technique all by itself. You get up there, and you are a comedian, and you're doing one thing. That is, you're going to make the audience laugh. ↗

— Leslie Nielsen

#comedian #comedy #doing #get #going

Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. ↗

— Larry Niven

#building #built #dozen #everyone #insane

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon. ↗

— Larry Niven

#decent #distant #enough #figure #future

Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world. ↗

— Yoshihiko Noda

#creating #efficiency #energy #energy efficiency #expertise

I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in. ↗

— Donald Norman

#apple #been #box #comes #i

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique. ↗

— Ivor Novello

#calculated #defeat #every #glaring #hours

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician. ↗

— Gary Numan

#always #anyway #been #before #create

I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing. ↗

— Gary Numan

#into #kind #magic #technology #thing