Ridley Pearson Quotes

Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.

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• The future of technology is not really location-based apps; it is about making location completely unimportant.

  

  Balaji Srinivasan
  • Future
  • Technology
  • Location

• Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • People
  • Question
  • Technology

• I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Technology
  • Politics
  • Self

• Aereo is the first potentially transformative technology that has the chance to give people access to broadcast television delivered over the Internet to any device, large or small, they desire. No wires, no new boxes or remotes, portable everywhere there's an Internet connection in the world - truly a revolutionary product.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• If you want to bring down the prices of healthcare and education, the answer will be more innovation, more technology, which will then have the effect of freaking everybody out and saying, 'Oh, my God, you're going to kill all the jobs.'

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • God
  • Education
  • Technology

• But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Use
  • Get
  • Could

• I'm sure there will continue to be exciting new products and major changes, but it looks as if the existing technology has a great deal of room to grow and prosper.

  

  Jack Kilby
  • Great
  • Technology
  • Changes

• I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Day
  • More
  • Half

• We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the 21st century. It is in all of our best interests to work together. In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself; you have to form alliances.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Work
  • Great
  • Together

• Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Speak

• We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Up
  • Power
  • Science

• It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • True
  • Technology
  • Humanity

• I'm interested in technology for the masses. Good tech design should not just be for enthusiasts but for the general public. It should be something that touches everyone.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Good
  • Technology
  • Design

• One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they’ll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Words
  • Perfect

• You know, everyone is always talking about plastic surgery, or the technology, what to do. I really think it's important to help yourself with the technology if you want to feel better, but I am absolutely against any kind of monstrous cuts of the body, lifting that is beyond recognition, this kind of stuff.

  

  Marina Abramovic
  • Important
  • Help
  • Technology

• Technology is now available that means you don't need to use fur. The alternatives are luxurious. There is just no need.

  

  Marco Bizzarri
  • Technology

• There are those who say the music industry must adapt to a wired world. They point to the decades-long rise in CD prices, even as manufacturing costs came down, and to data that shows Napster may actually increase sales of CDs by music-hungry customers as evidence that the music industry is simply afraid of a new technology.

  

  Parker Conrad
  • World
  • Music
  • Long

• WeWork is a platform that is powered by technology. Our members are running their entire experience with WeWork through the app.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Experience
  • Running
  • Technology

• A tobacco industry has been a fairly linear and predictable industry. You know what's going to happen every year. You know from time to time you are going to have a tax increase, you are going to have regulatory restriction, but, as it applies to everybody, I think we are doing very well. But now it's much more technology-driven. Competitors other than our traditional competitors can come in, whether legitimate or fly-by-night ones, and you have to anticipate all those things. The whole organization has to gear up to this new reality and these new competitive rules around it.

  

  Andre Calantzopoulos
  • Reality
  • Technology
  • Tax

• The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • People
  • Up
  • Game

• Go outside! I mean, even leaves from a park are beautiful in a clear glass vase. I'd rather see that than fake anything any day.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Beautiful
  • Day
  • Fake

• I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go to every party they possibly can to be photographed and really try to make every connection they can, and I admire that and sometimes I wish I had a little bit more of that. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough ambition.

  

  Jessica Pare
  • Different
  • Friends
  • Party

• Walt loved technology. He didn't understand it half the time, but the beauty of good technology was that he didn't have to understand it. Just use it.

  

  Ridley Pearson
  • Technology
  • Use
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