John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce.

Technology is changing so fast that knowledge about specifics can quickly become obsolete. That's why so much of what technicians learn is on the job.

The engineer is the key figure in the material progress of the world. It is his engineering that makes a reality of the potential value of science by translating scientific knowledge into tools, resources, energy and labor to bring them to the service of man ... To make contribution of this kind the engineer requires the imagination to visualize the needs of society and to appreciate what is possible as well as the technological and broad social age understanding to bring his vision to reality

Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade.

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.

Earlier generations of machines decreased the complexity of tasks. In contrast, information technologies can increase the intellectual content of work at all levels. Work comes to depend on an ability to understand, respond to, manage, and create value from information.

Increasingly, the work we do is enabled more and more by new IT, including automation, robotics, and intelligent platforms.

We adapt to technological progress by raising our minimum standards of living and working to stay above this rising threshold.

I think tech is driving most of the innovation and will continue to for a very, very long time.

The first robot in Neom will be Neom itself.

Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we're discovering, it's been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, 'Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.' And it doesn't matter if it's from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective.

I believe that IT is the way forward. Every other industry utilises IT, and I feel that fashion needs to use it more extensively to move forward.

That's what technology does to you - makes you lazy but allows you to innovate.

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.

Technology is growing in all possible ways. It is affecting our lifestyle also.

Technology moves so quickly; you can't get comfortable with the business you have today because technology will progress.

My government has taken significant measures to enable the rise of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in our country.

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

I believe there are a lot of inefficiencies in the way technical innovation happens.

Africa cannot afford to underestimate the power of technology to fast-track the continent's rise. Emerging technologies have played extraordinary roles in every aspect of the continent's most touted successes.

The tech world is not a new phenomenon; it's a new era.

I never viewed technology as a replacement for the human experience. I viewed it as something that could liberate the human experience.

Technology evolves so much faster than wisdom.

Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals.