Debbie Harry Quotes

I grew up before computers. Computers are changing things, not all for the good.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

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

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing.

I believe, 50 years from now, when you write history, one technology that would have changed human civilization is going to be the mobile Internet.

Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution.

The Internet won't skip a beat, and neither will I. Technology is constantly changing and evolving.

Computers are merely ingenious devices to fulfill unimportant functions. The computer revolution is an explosion of nonsense.

When Colin Powell showed up as Secretary of State in 2001, most State Department employees still didn't even have computers on their desks. When I got there they were not mostly permitted to have handheld devices. I mean, so you're thinking how do we operate in this new environment dominated by technology, globalizing forces? We have to change, and I can't expect people to change if I don't try to model it and lead it.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

In fact, technology has been the story of human progress from as long back as we know. In 100 years people will look back on now and say, 'That was the Internet Age.' And computers will be seen as a mere ingredient to the Internet Age.

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

Technology's related to everything. Technology is making the world more accessible, so yeah, as generations go by, they'll become more and more married to each other, for sure. I think they go hand in hand - fashion inspires design, and technology inspires design as well.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

The great growling engine of change - technology.

Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

Computers get better faster than anything else ever.

I just think we're living in a time of massive, amazing change, like the Industrial Revolution on acid.