#technology

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully. ↗

— Graham Greene

#better #challenge #champagne #detector #detectors

Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. ↗

— Andy Grove

#along #came #could #internet #into

If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#modern #modern technology #myth #mythology #science

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal. ↗

— Tom Hanks

#disposal #story #technology #telling #your

The goal of religious thinking is exactly the same as that of technological research -- namely, practical action. Whenever man is truly concerned with obtaining concrete results, whenever he is hard pressed by reality, he abandons abstract speculation and reverts to a mode of response that becomes increasingly cautious and conservative as the forces he hopes to subdue, or at least to outrun, draw ever nearer. ↗

— René Girard

#pragmatism #religion #technology #religion

Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now. ↗

— James Harden

#growing up #had #i #i wish #laptops

You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#because #combine #go #good #gotten

I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed. ↗

— John Hench

#allow #before #difficulty #during #every

Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#only #order #reagan #ronald #ronald reagan

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology. ↗

— Chris Hughes

#development #global #i #knew #something