My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.
3 quotes from An Wang
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
19 other quotes from Alfred North Whitehead
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
31 quotes from Gertrude Stein
If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
5 quotes from Omar N. Bradley
And what is religion, you might ask. It's a technology of living.
2 more wisdom & wit from Toni Cade Bambara
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
7 sayings from B. F. Skinner
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
105 other thoughts from Albert Einstein
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
7 other quotes from Alan Perlis
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
7 wisdom & wit from Alan Perlis
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
3 more thoughts from Richard P. Feynman
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
22 more quotes from James Dyson
Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.
2 wisdom & wit from John McKinley
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
11 more sayings from John Stuart Mill
The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.
22 thoughts from James Dyson
Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
7 quotes from Max Frisch
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
7 quotes from Max Frisch
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
13 quotes from Fred Allen
So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
22 quotes from James Dyson
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
26 wisdom & wit from Frank Lloyd Wright
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
17 other quotes from Antoine de Saint-Exupery
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
59 views from Elbert Hubbard
The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
27 other thoughts from Dave Barry
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
45 quotes from Aldous Huxley
The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
19 thoughts from Marshall McLuhan
Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.
27 quotes from Dave Barry
It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.
19 wisdom & wit from Marshall McLuhan
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
6 more quotes from Karl Popper
Men have become the tools of their tools.
117 other wisdom & wit from Henry David Thoreau
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
2 other views from Pierre Schaeffer
The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
2 quotes from E. F. Schumacher
If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society as a whole.
2 quotes from Arthur Holly Compton
One of the biggest challenges to medicine is the incorporation of information technology in our practices.
3 thoughts from Samuel Wilson
Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
26 more views from Theodor Adorno
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
100 quotes from Oscar Wilde
It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.
3 more sayings from Henry A. Wallace
Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.
2 sayings from Bob Barr
We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.
2 quotes from Monica Edwards
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
9 sayings from Carl Sagan
We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
9 other quotes from Carl Sagan
A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
5 quotes from Max Lerner
We must safely secure our border by investing in more law enforcement and technology, and receiving cooperation from the Mexican government.
2 other views from Timothy Murphy
Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
16 views from Alan Watts