Technology Quotes

"I love what the Valley does. I love company building. I love startups. I love technology companies. I love new technology. I love this process of invention. Being able to participate in that as a founder and a product creator, or as an investor or a board member, I just find that hugely satisfying."

"GIS is the only technology that actually integrates many different subjects using geography as its common framework."

"See, technology can advance yield and productivity, but only public policy can advance the income of farmers. There has to be a synergy between technology and public policy."

"My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do."

"I am a great enthusiast and early adopter of technology, but sometimes I wonder whether the inexorable integration of technology in our lives could diminish some of our quintessential human capacities, such as compassion and cooperation."

"Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we will understand dark matter, perhaps test string theory, find planets which can harbor life, and maybe have Brain 2.0, i.e. our consciousness on a disk which will survive even after we die."

"Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack."

"Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object."

"I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all."

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."

"With our Paleolithic instincts, we're simply unable to resist technology's gifts. But this doesn't just compromise our privacy. It also compromises our ability to take collective action."

"Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society."

"Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."

"Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon."

"Moore's Law-based technology is so much easier than neuroscience. The brain works in such a different way from the way a computer does."

"Like all technology, social media is neutral but is best put to work in the service of building a better world."

"With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad."

"Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space."

"'Social engineering,' the fancy term for tricking you into giving away your digital secrets, is at least as great a threat as spooky technology."

"Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions."

"It is time to stop debating whether the Internet is an effective tool for political expression and instead to address the much more urgent question of how digital technology can be structured, governed, and used to maximize the good and minimize the evil."

"Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider."

"Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate."

"Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today."

"It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame."

"Our philosophy is that we want to be an ecosystem. Our philosophy is to empower others to sell, empower others to service, making sure the other people are more powerful than us. With our technology, our innovation, our partners - 10 million small business sellers - they can compete with Microsoft and IBM."

"More than 500 million years ago, vision became the primary driving force of evolution's 'big bang', the Cambrian Explosion, which resulted in explosive speciation of the animal kingdom. 500 million years later, AI technology is at the verge of changing the landscape of how humans live, work, communicate,and shape our environment."

"I'm fascinated by the idea that genetics is digital. A gene is a long sequence of coded letters, like computer information. Modern biology is becoming very much a branch of information technology."

"The over-all point is that new technology will not necessarily replace old technology, but it will date it. By definition. Eventually, it will replace it. But it's like people who had black-and-white TVs when color came out. They eventually decided whether or not the new technology was worth the investment."

"Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point."

"A company can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption and other security technologies, but if an attacker can call one trusted person within the company, and that person complies, and if the attacker gets in, then all that money spent on technology is essentially wasted."

"Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'"

"Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you."

"I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do."

"The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other nations also possess this technology. Many more nations are seeking it, and more will succeed in acquiring it."

"If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it."

"Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings."

"Technology could benefit or hurt people, so the usage of tech is the responsibility of humanity as a whole, not just the discoverer. I am a person before I'm an AI technologist."

"Social media is not about the exploitation of technology but service to community."

"There is great potential to use computer vision technology in a constructive and benevolent way."

"Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad."

"Technology is notorious for engrossing people so much that they don't always focus on balance and enjoy life at the same time."

"I think the Internet and technology in general has changed everything. We can see it overseas even more with the Arab Spring and so forth."

"Things go wrong for me all the time with technology. I'm not familiar enough with it, and I'm too old-school a brain to be able to figure it out. I'm dumb. Anything that I have to attack with my thumbs, for any period of time, makes me feel stupid. So, I try to avoid it, as much as possible, to protect my thumbs."

"The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life."

"When you've done the technical part, you're then into the joy, the zen, into being. Technology no longer exists for you. You're then into the mystery of the thing you're doing."

"There's no better place in the world for technology start-ups than Silicon Valley; there's such an incredible well of talent and capital and resources. The whole system is set up to foster the creation of new companies."

"I am excited to partner with Under Armour to bring game-changing sleepwear, with the same bioceramics technology I use, to athletes all around the world."

"Education technology is very important because we have a massive challenge in public schools."

"Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities."