#techno

A lot of the ideas or even individual technologies behind Khan Academy are not novel. ↗

— Salman Khan

#behind #even #ideas #individual #khan

So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Well, that's just not going to happen. ↗

— Amy Klobuchar

#adult #behave #expecting #going #happen

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#achievement #atom #atom bomb #became #bomb

Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be more debates like the one on Keystone. ↗

— Ed Royce

#continues #debates #energy #improve #issue

There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry. ↗

— Mark Rydell

#direct #direct proportion #evidence #industrialization #industry

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#american #bits #books #broadcast #city

Technology isn't the enemy, it is our ally, but only if we adopt a new model that puts people before profit. I realize that we seem far from that model, but I have seen it in action and it is a beautiful thing. So I'm not willing to give up yet. Hope is the last thing to die. ↗

— Justin Sane

#adopt #ally #beautiful #beautiful thing #before

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger

#frame #lives #memory #myth #our

Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#another #come #comes #companies #google

There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#ahead #awfully #been #change #developments