#technology

Thompson and Ritchie were among the first to realize that hardware and compiler technology had become good enough that an entire operating system could be written in C, and by 1978 the whole environment had been successfully ported to several machines of different types. ↗

— Eric S. Raymond

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Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened. ↗

— Lee R. Raymond

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I wanted to make sure that this be the first scientific and technology revolution in history in which the public thoroughly discussed all the potential benefits and all the potential harms, in advance of the technology coming online and running its course. ↗

— Jeremy Rifkin

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The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction. ↗

— Lord Robertson

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Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man’s inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,—in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home? ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#possessions #technology #travel #beauty

In consequence, science is more important than ever for industrial technology. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#ever #important #industrial #more #science

If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole. ↗

— Arthur Holly Compton

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But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#biology #doing #engineering #fields #following

I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting. ↗

— Bernard Ebbers

#engineering #i #know #technology

Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry. ↗

— Michael Oxley

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