#techno

I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk. ↗

— Peter King

#against #american #american lives #because #firm

I won't compare ants and people, but ants give us a useful model of how single members of a community can become so organized that they end up resembling, in effect, one big collective brain. Our own exploding population and communication technology are leading us that way. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#become #big #brain #collective #communication

Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. ↗

— Larry Wall

#any #assembly #code #language #programmers

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi. ↗

— Larry Wall

#array #club #death #doing #like

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#california #carried #graduate #institute #out

I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#business #california #change #change the world #country

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

Everything's changed. The technology is the big thing changing now, the way movies like 'Alice' or 'Avatar' are made. And technology on the other side, the audience side. Word spreads so fast now on a movie, with the Internet, and piracy is something coming down the line like in the music industry. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#audience #big #big thing #changed #changing