Computers & Technology Quotes (3549 Quotes)










    Faith does not protect you. Medicine and airbags... Those are the things that protect you. God does not protect you. Intelligence protects you. Enlightenment. Put your faith in something with tangible results. How long has it been since someone walked on water? Modern miracles belong to science.. Computers, vaccines, space stations... Even the devine miracle of creation. Matter from nothing... In a lab. Who needs God? No! Science is God!


    We certainly believe all students should have a computer or easy access to one, but we don't think this plan has been well thought out. We haven't seen proof that all students actually need their own computers.

    Technology needs to be the leader on the way up, because it was the leader on the way down. Even though the earnings reports are miserable, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. That's what investors are looking at right now.

    We shouldn't fuel the future with the polluting methods of the past, ... We have the technology to power our future in ways that don't threaten our health or poison our planet. Let's choose to use it.

    It is hard to say how safe the data was. My feeling is, based on their description, it probably is vulnerable and someone with a little bit of computer skills can get to the data.



    We also had the tragic events of September 11th, and I know for everyone that's caused us to step back, think about our priorities. It's a tragedy that affects us personally and affects our businesses. For the computer industry in particular, I think it highlights the importance of security, giving that far more importance than we've had in the past. We don't want our digital systems to have weaknesses that allow for tragedies, exploiting the weaknesses that are there. And so there's a renewed sense of focus on that.

    There are no rules and regulations for perfect composition. If there were we would be able to put all the information into a computer and would come out with a masterpiece. We know that's impossible. You have to compose by the seat of your pants.


    Technology conversions are major events for an organization -- encompassing multiple years and millions of dollars -- in this case 9 million. It's very ambitious and we wanted to do it right. It's a system-wide effort with a steadfast focus on our vision of providing even better patient outcomes by improving provider satisfaction, productivity and quality of care.

    Small business owners know that their most critical asset is their information, yet it is stored on computers that can crash and are susceptible to viruses, power outages and theft. Backup systems won't protect data if a virus causes a networkcomputer crash before the data is backed up at the end of the day. This is why continuous protection is important.

    We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.

    Whilst much attention has been given to UK companies outsourcing jobs to India, the fact is that successful Indian businesses notably in the technology sector are expanding rapidly in the global market and bringing new jobs to London.


    When something pops up on my computer, I know I can look at it very quickly and assess the situation and know where our people need to go what needs to happen.

    We are extremely pleased to welcome Ron, who comes to us with a wealth of executive-level strategic leadership experience, demonstrated business acumen and a solid record of accomplishments in both business and information technology. Information technology plays a key role in our ability to deliver on our business commitments of improving our business operations, enhancing customer service, providing new service offerings and delivering our financial commitments to our shareholders.

    He was prescient in appreciating how the information technology revolution would lead to an upsurge in productivity at a time when people were having a tough time understanding what all these new computers were doing to us.

    This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of people who want some sort of technology to solve the spam problem.

    Democrats believe we should renew our commitment to creating tax credits for hybrid vehicles, increasing fuel efficiency standards for cars, and investing in ethanol, biofuel, hydrogen fuel cell technology,


    I often get no answer at all. I call their 1-800 numbers and generally you get a computer and talk to no one. I've had that not once but probably a dozen times. When you do talk to somebody, you get frustrated because you can't really find out if the case is proceeding. They say they are working on it, but they don't give any details.

    Technology is essential to our everyday lives. With graduation around the corner, parents, family and friends can help their graduates gear up for the next stage in life by investing in the right blend of technology products and services.

    We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way.

    Whether we want to embrace the technology or not, we have to. Don't be too eager to move on, but look at what is working now. To get ahead of yourself can be disastrous to your work.

    Mayor Bloomberg has led the way for making New York City more business-friendly, and these grants are another great resource for the city's businesses and workers, ... Today, new technology can cause industries to change overnight. In order to stay competitive, businesses need highly-trained employees with a flexible skill set.

    The original challenge allowed any users to have local accounts to access the machine via SSH. This is an important distinction, because if you have local -- or physical -- access to a computer, you have a very distinct leg-up in terms of the ability to escalate your privileges.


    The Judge's denial was Sun's position in the language of the agreement that the court basically supported our position. We're pleased with the court's ruling and we think it's encouraging that this ruling will be very helpful when we move towards the counter-claims, which will show that Sun, not Microsoft, violated this contract and Sun failed to deliver the technology it was required to do under the contract.




    We feel that we're at the tip of the iceberg. We've gotten up to speed pretty quickly to let travelers tap into a rich source of information, but we're also very aware there a huge number of things that we haven't started thinking about that you can do with this technology.


    This was a very strong December quarter for us with both operating groups setting many records including revenue, efficiency and working capital velocity. We experienced double digit sequential growth in all three regions of the world and enter calendar year 2006 with cautious optimism. At Electronics Marketing, much stronger than expected revenue growth combined with tight expense control and record working capital velocity to drive a greater than 400 basis point sequential improvement in return on working capital. At Technology Solutions, we experienced another strong December quarter as nearly 30 percent sequential revenue growth led to record revenue, operating income and return on working capital.




    Investors are still not too confident on the earnings outlook at technology companies. Rising oil prices will increase concern that interest rates will keep on rising, which will hurt demand in the U.S.

    This is very upsetting to us to have data on that many employees on a computer that was stolen. We certainly don't want to see this happen again.


    Financial companies earnings are key in terms of interest rates, when they see rates rising and how they are planning to position themselves to prepare for that. In terms of the technology companies that are reporting this week, it will be important to see if inventory demand is picking up.



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