Todd Howard Quotes

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.

You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.

If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy.

The weekends are really important to me; the use of technology is really important to me.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

Inside a company, you can mandate that everyone use the same technology, which means you can go a little bit, I don't know, higher fidelity than the lowest common denominator technology.

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

Technologies and specific vendors may come and go, but massive cultural transformations and new kinds of relationships? Those don't go away.

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

I have an iPod, but I do still love CDs. There's something nice and tangible about a CD. I'm a mixture of old and new - I love my sewing machine, but I've also embraced new technology. The iPad is what did it for me - it's extraordinary.

Where I stand, or where the people I work with stand, is the technology is inevitable, so it's about how do we steer it.

I really admire people's interactions with technology that aren't tech-centric but use it as a tool.

I am very fond of technology and like to keep pace with change.

It's rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology.

We can't have tech just for the sake of it. To maximise the potential of technology solutions you have to understand how to use them.

In fact, technology in, and of, itself does not cause particular kinds of change. It is, essentially, an enabling or facilitating agent. It makes possible new structures, new organizational and geographical arrangements of economic activities, new products and new processes, while not making particular, outcomes inevitable.

Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.

I don't know when they first had feeds. Like maybe, fifty or a hundred years ago. Before that, they had to use their hands and their eyes. Computers were all outside the body. They carried them around outside of them, in their hands, like if you carried your lungs in a briefcase and opened it to breathe.

We all live such digital lives, there is no reason why we should not import this into our company.

We've truly transformed Accenture capabilities to help our clients embrace the new, applying innovation and intelligence at the heart of their organizations.

The infusion of technology and social marketing to bar spaces is a big opportunity.

The list of traceability for some automotive components needs to be rethought for new technologies to send adequate signals about the strengthening of the value chains in North America.

The evolution of technology is, like the evolution of literature, heavily path-dependent. Culture plays a far more important role in the acceptance, adoption, and spread of technology than many of us are willing to acknowledge.

All too often, technology is treated as a silver bullet for perceived problems in education. This sometimes leads to knee-jerk investments, using scarce resources to invest in software or hardware without a clear notion of how either might actually empower learning.