#tech

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#among #considered #desert #destitute #find

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#only #order #reagan #ronald #ronald reagan

Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks. ↗

— Dee Hock

#acceptance #any #around #centuries #device

I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will. ↗

— David Hockney

#any #anything #different #go #i

The picture surface recedes just as much in the 20th century as it did in the 15th. The techniques of making pictures have hardly changed. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#century #changed #did #hardly #just

Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#mountains #move #moves #necessary #need

A variety of national and international studies indicate that the broad-based deployment of information technology can have a substantial impact on our nation's economic productivity and growth as well as the educational and social success of our citizens. ↗

— Tim Holden

#citizens #deployment #economic #educational #growth

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