Computers & Technology Quotes (3549 Quotes)

I'm not tied to the fax machine. I can pull up faxes on any computer I can get access to. It's streamlining my life.

If the metal itself were to double from here, because there's really no supplies in gold stocks, the gold stocks could actually make the technology or Internet stocks of yesterday look like they were standing still So, I think the real issue was the opportunity costs of owning gold in the past, ... That has come away or it's been almost eliminated because the interest rates are so low. So I think every portfolio should have some exposure, not to go crazy, maybe five or six percent, but I think it has a play and I think it still has a lot of legs left.

You know, IBM was almost knocked out of the box by other types of computer software and manufacturing.

Family life is not a computer program that runs on its own; it needs continual input from everyone.

The initial wave of selling (in oil futures) came when the computer models showed Rita veering further to the east, which would make landfall nearer Port Arthur than Houston,

This is good news because while BMW has been an industry leader in diesel and hydrogen technology, it hasn't been a factor in hybrids. No one knows for sure which technology is going to win for the future, but BMW can't afford not to look at other choices to learn which is the most economic and cost-efficient.

No one likes to lose money in technology, ... We marginally broke 3,500 and everybody has been looking for a giant capitulation day. We may not get that but this is a market that is healing.

The technology itself (behind Opal and Onyx) is great. Whether it can deliver is beyond the technology. It's up to Polaroid as a business.

There are bottlenecks in Vernon Hills that we wanted to address in the new facility. Along with new technology, we wanted to implement the best practices in distribution today.

Policy management is really the key. Companies need to figure out their policies from a business perspective, and then communicating and managing those is the technology challenge. If you don't create this governance, then you have chaos. If you don't have a framework for coordinating services, there is no way to get the benefits of reuse.

The realization now is that the economy really is starting to slow down. And we've had figures from certain industries that would indicate that. And so therefore, investors are trying to put their money where gains in growth and earnings will take place, even in a slower economy. The areas that I think have been benefiting, and I think will continue to benefit, are the financial and health care sectors because that has been a traditional growth area. But not at the percentage gains that some of the technology companies have experienced.

Technology stocks have been leaders for good reason. The economy is growing 3.5 percent per year, while spending on information-processing equipment is growing 19.1 percent a year, after inflation. And spending on computers and peripherals is growing at a 41.1-percent rate. Technology is reflecting what lies ahead for the economy.

Nathan has been an invaluable contributor to Microsoft, the technology industry and to me personally over the past 13 years. Frankly, I would rather he continue his work at Microsoft, but I support his decision to take a much needed break and explore his passion for science.

I thought digital technology would eventually reverse urbanization, and so far that hasn't happened. But people always overestimate how much will change in the next three years, and they underestimate how much will change over the next 10 years.

As our research clearly shows, companies have focused too heavily on technology in their contact centers and haven't paid enough attention to key process and performance measurement changes. Companies need to properly evaluate their customer-facing processes and provide call center representatives with supporting technologies that allow them to execute processes that improve operational effectiveness. Only in this way can they raise customer satisfaction and generate new business opportunities.

At BP, we believe technology can make a significant impact on the enterprise. We focus on a few technologies with immediate impact that will also benefit long-term business needs. The integration of current and emerging RF communications for large industrial sites could yield greater efficiencies for business operations.

Technology has been under a bit of a cloud and there's still concerns about the telecom industry, ... I think investors are still very wary of it. They want to see more robust capital expenditure.

The process of evolution may be described as differentiation of structure and integration of function. The more differentiated and specialized the parts, the more elaborate co-ordination is needed to create a well-balanced whole. The ultimate criterion of the value of a functional whole is the degree of its internal harmony or integratedness, whether the functional whole is a biological species or a civilization or an individual. A whole is defined by the pattern of relations between its parts, not by the sum of its parts and a civilization is not defined by the sum of its science, technology, art and social organization, but by the total pattern which they form, and the degree of harmonious integration in that pattern.

If you look at a young person and ask them a question, there was a time when they would have stood up to find that information in a computer or somewhere else. But ask a 17-year-old a question now and you're going to find them reaching into their pocket, because that's something that they expect to gain access to whenever and wherever they are.

If it fails, you need to know what are the implications to the business processes. So even if the network is not down, it might be effectively down without the acceleration technology.

One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal computers. There weren't that many people to sell to, and it was hard to identify them.

The accelerating change of technology it's changing the way we shop and the way we play games.

We are trying to do a transfer of technology that allows people to express themselves without taking risks. It is about free speech, that's all.

He said, 'I kissed her goodnight last night when she was on the computer, and this morning when I woke up she was in the kitchen. She was dead.

Although Einstein enjoyed almost universal acclaim in his day, history has exalted his genius still further by forgetting those few detractors who did exist. . . . Herbert Ives, a physicist for Bell Laboratories, remained unshakeably opposed to relativity, though the Ives-Stillwell experiment which bears his name is generally interpreted as a direct corroboration of Einstein's theory 'His Ives' work on the so-called tranverse Doppler effect, performed with Stillwell in the period 1938-41, is one of three crucial optical experiments which, taken together, lead inductively to the Lorentz transformations as used in the special theory of relativity in a sense it, more than either of the two, may be considered as the cornerstone of the special principle of relativity, as formulated years before by Einstein. . . .' (Howard P. Robertson, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology, 1956) 'The 'principle' of the constancy of the velocity of light is not merely 'ununderstandable', it is not supported by 'objective matters of fact' it is untenable, and, as we shall see, unnecessary. . . . Also of philosophical import is that with the abandonment of the 'principle' of the constancy of the velocity of light, the geometries which have been based on it, with their fusion of space and time, must be denied their claim to be a true description of the physical world.'

I think we could re-write the book a little bit. The other sort of traditional way of looking at the market is that you get a summer rally. And I suspect that we will get a positive bias to this market at some point in time over the next couple of months. However, I do think that you're probably in that quieter period for news and developments in the technology sector.

We expect that the mutual goal of ZF and IBM to deliver products of the highest quality and reliability, utilizing IBM's world-class foundry technology, will result in a successful long-term relationship.

I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.

The Republic of China of Taiwan is in need of resources and has to look at the markets of the world, ... We have the technology and the capability, but we don't have the markets here in Alaska.

Another misconception is that an order is canceled when you hit 'cancel' on your computer. But, the fact is it's canceled only when the market gets the cancellation.

There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.

Next thing you know, we're like the computer people for the movie industry in the Twin Cities,

I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.

Sen. (Craig) Thomas has had at least 17 years to promote that technology.

Despite world unrest, the frontiers of the future lie invitingly before us. They stretch to fabulous horizons of scientific and technological discoveryall holding promise of contribution to the national welfare. But these frontiers of tomorrow call for bold enterprisefor optimism, for the united effort of industry, labor, agriculture and government. In the mounting miracles of science, in the rapid advances of technology, lie the foundations for almost countless new industries and for far swifter social progress. This promise of progress is daily taking more definite shape and clearer form, as it shakes free of the post-war mists.

Al is a great guy, he leads an extraordinarily important company with an amazing technology, but they have some people issues to work through, ... I wish them all the luck in the world.

I think we have a PR issue, in that people do not think the utility industry has great significant technical challenges. College graduates look at us and see poles and wires, and don't realize there are things like automation, computer control and sophisticated asset management systems out there.

His database had been completely fabricated on his computer.

You have to have a real interest in computers and electronics. You run into a lot of problems, but you're always coming up with new ways to fix them.

In order simply to stay ahead, most companies, in most sectors, are probably involved in some technological advance - perhaps product development or process improvements through the introduction of a new technology.

If I were to label the issue, it's one of program management and getting all the bits and pieces pulled together in the right order. We are still very hot on the technology. I don't think a six-month slip is a major impact from a product standpoint.

A big complex with a gym in it, a weight room, a music studio, a photo lab, a computer lab.

Parents relying on ubiquitous and user-friendly technology, ratings information and their own good judgment to manage TV is (sic) the best approach, not increased government control, regardless of whether the program is Yosemite Sam, the Road Runner or a scene from a show clearly intended for adults.

Technology solutions deliver a record-breaking quarter as we closed our calendar year 2005 with 11 percent revenue growth while growing operating income by 22 percent for the calendar year. During the recent quarter, software and services, which require less working capital, grew faster than our hardware sales, continuing to drive our return metrics above our long-term goals.

It was the perfect invention. It was simple to implement the technology, but it brought an old idea (auctions) into a new domain (the Internet).

Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.

We've actually had a bit of a stealth rally here in August. As many people have been away for vacation, the market's done fairly well in here. We still are pretty favorably disposed toward the technology area, and as we go into the Christmas season we'll see probably more activity there.

We are pleased that they recognize the dedication and expertise of the screeners, and we agree with their conclusion that significant improvements will depend on improvements in technology, though we will seek incremental gains through training and testin

If you don't have computer protection against those problems, they will build up over time and slow the computer to a crawl. If you take care of computers, they will be obsolete long before they stop running.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.