Technology Quote by Jonathan Franzen Download Open image ““In Technology We Trust. Need to put that on the new hundred-dollar bill.”” — Jonathan Franzen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Technology Trust
“Trust is like a valuable antique, once gone, it can never be replaced.” — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“Money talks, and people like science that seems just a little bit insane. It reminds them that the future is tomorrow, and that we… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
“Technological progress has a very different agenda. It doesn’t want to listen to our inner voices. It wants to control them.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Technology is a resource-liberating mechanism. It can make the once scarce the now abundant.” — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
“if there’s one concern that comes up again and again, it’s ‘Don’t trust the technology – it may not be your friend.” — Rocky Wood Copy Share Image
“I often wonder if the bill is yet to be presented during our lifetime. If not, I must present it to myself.” — Christa Wolf Copy Share Image
“The future sneaks up on us. It leaks in through the small, ordinary things.” — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“And if you couldn't trust the government, who could you trust? Very nearly everyone, come to think of it...” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“No matter how advanced the technology, sometimes things just needed a good knock.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's probably no accident that whenever one hears of a smart technology, it refers to something that has been taken out of human control.” — Tom Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
“IT shouldn’t be the afterthought of the business because technology is often the disruptive force.” — Pearl Zhu Copy Share Image
“There's little value in advancing technology if our consciousness, compassion, conversation and cooperation is regressing.” — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“The fundamental fact about all of us is that we’re alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Fiction that isn't an author's personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn't worth writing for anything but money. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“Parents are programmed to want the best for their kids, regardless of what they get in return. That's what love is supposed to be like, right? But in fact, if you think about it, that's kind of a strange belief. Given what we know about the way people really are. Selfish and shortsighted and egotistical and needy. Why should being… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share
“Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done some brilliant retooling over the ages and could now be found living in the form of orioles in the sycamores across the street. As solutions to the problem of earthly existence, the dinosaurs had been pretty… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share
“Can a better kind of fiction save the world? There’s always some tiny hope (strange things do happen), but the answer is almost certainly no, it can’t. There is some reasonable chance, however, that it could save your soul. If you’re unhappy about the hatred that’s been unleashed in your heart, you might try imagining what it’s like to be… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share
A big part of me would be very proud never having anything of mine adapted, because if you want the real experience, there's only… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I dont see how you could… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“I'm saying the structure and f the entire culture is flawed, chip said. I'm saying the bureaucracy has arrogated the right to define certain states of mind as 'diseased.' A lack of desire to spend money becomes a symptom of disease that requires expensive medication. Which medication then destroys the libido, in other words destroys the appetite for the one… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share
Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena. — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“An odd thing about beauty, however, is that it's absence tends not to arouse our sympathy as much as other forms of privation do.” — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
He became another data point in the American experiment of self-government, an experiment statistically skewed from the outset, because it wasn't the people with… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“It was this motley band of modest peeps and plovers on the beach who reminded me of the human beings I loved best - the ones who didn't fit in. These birds may or may not have been capable of emotion, but the way they looked, beleaguered there, few in number, my outcast friends, was how I felt. I'd been… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share
But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second… — Vikram Sarabhai Copy Share Image
“This story is not at all an uncommon one in tech circles, including gaming. The popular notion is that women who get ahead must be engaging in something underhanded to do so, because tech is a white man’s world (even as they will then describe it as a meritocracy of the best kind). Any successful woman can expect to be… — Bailey Poland Copy Share
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy. Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture,… — Christopher Bond Copy Share Image
“Economic growth continued by means of a succession of new products which found growing and ultimately massive demand. Some of the new products were goods, some were services, most involved new technologies but it was not the novel technologies which made the difference as much as the creation of new products which satisfied a previously unmet, or even unknown, consumer… — Edward A. Hudson Copy Share
I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all these amazing things in terms of our knowledge base and technology, and now we're flying around and using the internet. But we're still very animalistic. So, I think about hierarchies. I think about evolution. I think… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“If Amazon’s dream of a world without gatekeepers becomes reality, then the company itself will become a powerful gatekeeper.” — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how… — Anton Zeilinger Copy Share Image
The most fundamental question we can ever ask ourselves is whether or not the universe we live in is friendly or hostile. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
