Technology Management Quotes

Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.

Technology is a wonderful thing. It should reduce errors, save taxpayers money, and be a tool to help agencies accomplish their missions. It should not be a burden.

My wife handles all of our technology. So if something goes wrong with the computer, I throw up my arms and step aside while the IT gal figures it out.

Our business is about technology, yes. But it's also about operations and customer relationships.

I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, how not to make a mess of it, has not yet been met.

I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic consequences. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology.

I already knew that I wanted to be involved in something that combined management and coding, so I wasn't coding all the time. And I don't want to be in a management position, where that's all I'm doing, and I'm not able to participate in the creation of the technology.

Often we need to use policy to level the playing field, or to be sure that a technology is managed in a responsible way.

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

Don't let technology dictate your life.

You should not be a slave to your telephone. The technology is there to serve you, not the other way around.

Don't become a slave to technology - manage your phone, don't let it manage you.

Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.

Technology is cool, but you've got to use it as opposed to letting it use you.

Technology is such a big part of our lives. It makes everything easier. It doesn't make sense to fight against it. We need to set limits and learn how to use it so that we can go to places that we have never been to before.

We need business leaders who have a respect for technical issues even if they don't have technical backgrounds. In a lot of U.S. industries, including cars and even computers, many managers don't think of technology as a core competency, and this attitude leads them to farm out technical issues.

We are led by lawyers who do not understand either technology or balance sheets.

I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.

We don't need to reject or disparage technology. We need to put it in its place.

My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education.

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat into a nontechnological Eden which never existed...It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desireable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.

We have so many things that we have to do better,and certainly cyber is one of them.

Turn off your email; turn off your phone; disconnect from the Internet; figure out a way to set limits so you can concentrate when you need to, and disengage when you need to. Technology is a good servant but a bad master.