#tech

The marketplace judges technologies by their practical effectiveness, by whether they succeed or fail to do the job they are designed to do. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

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I think one of the greatest enemies in the use of technology, however, is the idea that if you use the technology you have to throw other things out of the window. ↗

— John Eaton

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Defect-free software does not exist. ↗

— Wietse Venema

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Music has nothing to do with your technical ability. ↗

— Robin Trower

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It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create. ↗

— Joe Elliott

#big #create #get #go #huge

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#makes #mass #mass media #media #possible

Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

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

— Brian Eno

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I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there. ↗

— Brian Eno

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If you've spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever. ↗

— Brian Eno

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