#techno

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#being #dad #engineer #frivolous #had

Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria. ↗

— Robert McFarlane

#been #delivery #great #iran #korea

We are looking for development partners, people to work alongside us, which will accelerate our actually getting licences, the technology into product, into the markets. ↗

— John McKinley

#actually #alongside #development #getting #into

Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun. ↗

— Sid Meier

#enhance #find #first #fun #games

If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#advances #conditions #cost #human #human suffering

A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available. ↗

— Ralph Merkle

#available #distributed #easily #grow #land

Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#disks #hard #me #more #most

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#atrophy #finger #his #keeps #limbs

Police departments no longer have to pay overtime or divert resources from other projects to find out where an individual goes - all they have to do is place a tracking device on someone's car or ask a cell phone company for that individual's location history and the technology does the work for them. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#car #cell #cell phone #company #departments

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#civilization #crisis #debt #enormous #environmental