#technologies

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil. ↗

— William Gibson

#become #evil #good #i #i think

These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#birth #child #defect #easier #experimental

With tens of thousands of patients dying every year from preventable medical errors, it is imperative that we embrace available technologies and drastically improve the way medical records are handled and processed. ↗

— Jon Porter

#drastically #dying #embrace #errors #every

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers. ↗

— Eric Avery

#being #computers #especially #finding #getting

There's a long list of technologies that have now made it possible to carry out very precise search efforts in the deep sea. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#deep #efforts #list #long #long list

Still, there may be technologies that are very useful in identifying people over the age of 18 because they have all kinds of identifying characteristics, while those same tech may be useless for 12- and 13-year-olds. ↗

— Richard Blumenthal

#because #characteristics #identifying #kinds #may

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them. ↗

— Brian Eno

#always #come #everybody #import #job

In making policy designed with copyright in mind, you end up making decisions about whether other important technologies, such as privacy-enhancing or file-search technologies, should be encouraged or discouraged. A collision is happening between creativity and protecting IP. ↗

— Edward Felten

#between #collision #copyright #creativity #decisions

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#continue #disciplines #ideas #innovate #interesting

Hard disks have disappointed me more than most technologies. ↗

— Steve Wozniak

#disks #hard #me #more #most