"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 CommonerTweet
"The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it." - Scott McNealyTweet
"It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years." - John von NeumannTweet
"Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone." - Jaron LanierTweet
"Don't underestimate questions from the crowd technology has made voters more informed than ever." - Ron FournierTweet
"Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences." - Freeman DysonTweet
"And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction." - Lester B. PearsonTweet
"I go and see anything that's visually new, any technology that's about picture-making. The technology won't make the pictures different, but someone using it will." - David HockneyTweet
"Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap." - Bob GrahamTweet
"I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology." - Francesca AnnisTweet