#tool

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. ↗

— Bill Gates

#getting #important #just #kids #most

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user. ↗

— Bill Gates

#become #communication #created #creativity #empowering

Women around the world should have a tool that helps them plan their pregnancies. ↗

— Melinda Gates

#helps #plan #pregnancies #should #their

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration. ↗

— Susan George

#army #because #better #colonialism #control

We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to know. ↗

— Susan George

#accounts #arithmetic #because #crude #know

Since its enactment in the weeks following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the tools in the Patriot Act have been used by law enforcement to stop more than 400 terrorist threats to our families and communities. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#attacks #been #communities #enactment #enforcement

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#alone #between #come #digital #era

Technologists provide tools that can improve people's lives. But I want to be clear that I don't think technology by itself improves people's lives, since often I'm criticized for being too pro-technology. Unless there's commensurate ethical and moral improvements to go along with it, it's for naught. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#being #clear #commensurate #criticized #ethical

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#data #democracy #design #designed #effect

I ask the American people to consider the legacy this administration has handed us in the defense budget as we spend billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars without the tools and ability to track these dollars. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#administration #american #american people #ask #billions