David Gilmour Quotes

It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape.

We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology.

The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.

Technology has such an impact on libraries in the last 20 years, and the last 10 years in particular.

I managed to work for more than 50 years with just paper, pencils and film. My son's generation and the one coming up after can't work with just paper and pencils any more. I managed to avoid using a computer. I don't even have a cellphone. I feel lucky I managed to live like that.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic but technological-technologies that flowed directly from advances in basic science. Clearly, no scientist better represents those advances than Albert Einstein: TIME's Person of the Century.

All our technology - whether we use fax machines or computers or speak on phones or watch programs on television - is based on the premise that the essential nature of the material world is non-material.

I'm the most computer illiterate human being that ever lived. My grandkids do everything for me, and then they say, "I won't even explain it to you, grandpa, 'cause you won't get it."

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.

Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.

Because of the rush of human knowledge, because of the digital revolution, I have a voice, and I do not need to scream.

Technology: No Place for Wimps!

From phones to cars to medicine, technology touches every part of our lives. If you can create technology, you can change the world.

Obviously, computers have made differences. They have fostered the development of spaceships- as well as a great increase in junk mail.

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

Technology transforms people's lives. From mitigating poverty to simplifying processes, ending corruption to providing better services, Technology is omnipresent. It has become the single-most important instrument of human progress.

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.

Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it.

More than anything else, technology will pave the way for innovative change at Starbucks. The bulk of Starbucks' innovation over the next several years will be technology-focused.

Investing in tomorrow's technology today is more critical than ever.

My personal belief is that because technology and economic logic has gotten so sophisticated, cruelties can be perpetrated now that would have been unimaginable two or three hundred years ago.

Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance.

Technology is going to transform people's lives and society everywhere in the world. I spend most of my time studying new technologies. My main task is to understand what's going on and try to see where we can fit in.