#technology

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies. ↗

— Marc Andreessen

#all-time #companies #earnings #hates #low

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#age #biggest #biggest problems #century #face

I really believe that we don't have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both. ↗

— John Poindexter

#believe #between #both #gives #i

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. ↗

— Georges Pompidou

#gambling #most #pleasant #quickest #roads

Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms. ↗

— William Powell

#manufacturing #nanotechnology

In pursuing a ‘way,’ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate. ↗

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

#architecture #cosplay #design #japan #manga

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. ↗

— B. F. Skinner

#machines #men #problem #real #real problem

I wouldn't mind if the consumer culture went poof! overnight because then we'd all be in the same boat and life wouldn't be so bad, mucking about with the chickens and feudalism and the like. But you know what would be absolutely horrible. The worst? ... If, as we were all down on earth wearing rags and husbanding pigs inside abandoned Baskin-Robbins franchises, I were to look up in the sky and see a jet -- with just one person inside even -- I'd go berserk. I'd go crazy. Either everyone slides back into the Dark Ages or no one does. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#consumer-culture #end-of-the-word #feudalism #technology #age

People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful. ↗

— Lawrence Wright

#focusing #helpful #into #just #kinds

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology. ↗

— Daniel Yergin

#affairs #development #geology #ground #happens