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How to become a really modern society when today we are so - as a human being, we feel so powerful. We have high technology and a superb way of controlling our life. And at the same time, in many ways we are so primitive. We are not on - even just a step away from the most brutal and primitive crudity. To be very crude on those issues, which is always challenges and we always have to look at the situation like a mirror, to draw some understanding.

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I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

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Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born.

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I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can't just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it's really in how the technology is used. What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we're going.

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America is the largest investor in the technologies necessary to be able to say to people, 'You can grow your economy so people's standard of living can improve, and at the same time be good stewards of the environment'.

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The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

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Some technologies don't pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. ... I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here.

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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.

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What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilisation is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilisation millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque

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I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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Without technology humanity has no future, but we have to be careful that we don’t become so mechanised that we lose our human feelings.

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Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

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Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature.

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I'll change the posture of our federal government from being one of the most anti-science administrations in American history to one that embraces science and technology.

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Our laws need to reflect the evolution of technology and the changing expectations of American society. This is why the Constitution is often called a “living” document.

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America is the largest investor in the technologies necessary to be able to say to people, 'You can grow your economy so people's standard of living can improve, and at the same time be good stewards of the environment'.

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I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues - intelligence, military, technology.

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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

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