#technology

In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#depends #earn #economy #example #for example

The point of that is, if you look at Walgreen's history, they've always been pioneers in the application of technology. They're the only drugstore chain that I know to have their own satellite. ↗

— James Collins

#application #been #chain #drugstore #history

The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept. ↗

— James Collins

#application #ask #become #concept #directly

It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#atomic #biological #human #inheritance #interests

I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs. ↗

— John Warnock

#better #care #communication #contributed #food

Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn. ↗

— Pete Waterman

#everywhere #face #further #horn #me

I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion. ↗

— Chris Wedge

#direct way #draw #excited #feeling #foot

Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience. And I think that's part of what will loosen up in the future, as technology makes it cheaper, you'll be able to make films for a more selective audience. I think people will be able to make more personal movies. ↗

— Chris Wedge

#appeal #audience #broad #cheaper #cost

I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#am #hate #i #i am #internet

What's sort of interesting about the whole public relations disaster that is the Net, in some ways, is that the fundamentals are really good. ↗

— Meg Whitman

#about #disaster #fundamentals #good #interesting