#tech

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else. ↗

— Tom Holt

#else #incentive #inefficient #knows #lunchtime

We're investing record sums on buses and trains. We have a huge programme to encourage people to walk and cycle, and everyone up to and including the PM has been looking closely at how we can promote electric vehicles, hybrids, and other technologies. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#buses #closely #cycle #electric #encourage

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#concern #innovations #itself #limited #modern

I am associated with techno epics. ↗

— Trevor Horn

#associated #epics #i #i am #techno

I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald. ↗

— Lena Horne

#aretha #aretha franklin #before #ella #ella fitzgerald

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#came #dramatist #economically #good #had

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#extraordinary #fifty #machine #man #men

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#development #global #i #knew #something

You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#best #community #excited #purpose #technology

Triumphant science and technology are only at the threshold of man's command over sources of energy so stupendous that, if used for military purposes, they can wipe out our entire civilization. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#command #energy #entire #man #military