#tech

As a nation we have, over the past seven years, been rebuilding our intelligence with powerful capabilities that many thought we would no longer need after the Cold War. We have been rebuilding our clandestine service, our satellite and other technical collection, our analytical depth and expertise. ↗

— George Tenet

#analytical #been #capabilities #cold #cold war

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy. ↗

— Clarence Thomas

#because #becomes #critical #discrimination #economy

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#atlanta #audience #boston #ceremonial #dance

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#brain #brains #clever #collectively #endeavors

I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#contact #direct #direct contact #feel #i

Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#crappy #evil #just #make #microsoft

It's like when you want to make a house... the technique is very important. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#important #like #make #technique #very

It does not seem, however, that organic chemists were much worried about barriers to rotation in organic molecules in general at that time because there was no technique available to demonstrate the phenomenon experimentally. ↗

— Derek Harold Richard Barton

#available #barriers #because #chemists #demonstrate

When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong. ↗

— Geoffrey Boycott

#benefit #cricketers #depended #doing #faults

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#new technology #once #over #part #road