I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.
A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.
With the help of modern technology, I can compose intricate keyboard parts and then I have to go back and learn them in order to perform them properly.
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
Digital technology allows us a much larger scope to tell stories that were pretty much the grounds of the literary media.
Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.
What has always made IBM a fascinating and compelling place for me is the passion of the company, and its people, to apply technology and scientific thinking to major societal issues.
I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
Technology, outsourcing, a growing temp staffing industry, productivity efficiencies, have all replaced the middle class.
Neodymium is one of 17 'rare-earth metals,' and these elements have turned out to be critical to the rapidly-growing green technology industries.
There are certain cities around the world where it's possible to learn about tomorrow's technology as it's being developed today.
Our technology is very scalable. Our software can accommodate enormous numbers of clients. It's a marvelous opportunity. We'll keep developing products.
Instead of the international police action we had hoped for during the war in Kosovo, there are wars again - conducted with state-of-the-art technology, but still in the old style.
I am absolutely confident that St. Louis can attract major players in technology and make the companies that are here blossom.
I don't go crazy buying expensive technology. I'd probably say my laptops and TVs are the most expensive things I've bought.
Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.
What the Snowden scenario proved is that the weakest link is not the technology, the weakest link is the individual; we shouldn't kid ourselves.
I was the principal negotiator for the Department of Defense, when I was secretary of the Navy, on the issue of Toshiba technology concerns with American submarines.
Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.
