#techno

Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be. ↗

— John Phillips

#faster #flexible #makes #more #not perfect

Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that equality, opportunity and security are truly possible for all people who are blind. ↗

— Bob Ney

#belief #blind #braille #core #effective

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#invest #invested #money #much #our

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#bird #early #early bird #makes #often

I love my DSL, but I love my WiFi more. And I probably get on the Internet 40 percent to 50 percent more because of the combination of those technologies. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#combination #get #i #i love #internet

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#could #make #married #new #new world

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#faith #innocent #may #over #science

That's something that tends to happen with new technologies generally: The most interesting applications turn up on a battlefield, or in a gallery. ↗

— William Gibson

#technology #war #art

By 1833 the largest publisher in America, Harper and Company, boasted one horse-powered printing press and seven hand presses while the American Bible Society owned 16 new state-of-the-art, steam-driven presses and 20 hand presses. ↗

— Phil Cooke

#engagement #technology #art

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book." (Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010) ↗

— Patti Smith

#materialism #musicians #pure-awesome #technology #beauty