Technology Quotes
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Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
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When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business.
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Income taxes are very poor at generating income from automation because the gains are realized by technology companies that are experts at not paying taxes.
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All space projects push the frontiers of technology and are drivers of innovation.
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You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected.
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People try to treat technology as an object, and it can't be. It can only be a channel.
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If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.
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The technology of mass production is inherently violent, ecologically damaging, self-defeating in terms of non-renewable resources, and stultifying for the human person.
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People have to understand that they can reject technology. They can turn off their cell phone. They can stop looking at their e-mail. It's there if they want it. It's not being forced on them.
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The most human thing about us is our technology.
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The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.
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Gastronomy has to catch up to the evolution in technology.
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We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.
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When you put your investment in content - which is what we have done and will continue to do - you're not betting on any one technology. You're betting on them all.
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When you learn through coding, you're coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.
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My initial desire to blog came from something that's always been my approach to investing - I'm a nerd, and I love to play with the technology, and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.
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I'm not a political person. I'm a techie nerd, and I enjoy the techie part. I mean, all my life, I've loved great technology.
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Softbank has always been a service firm, and with the Internet, services became the center of the technology industry.
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I think technology and smartphones created a huge paradigm shift that we can't fully comprehend, and I think in a lot of ways things are changing faster than we can really process.
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If the government and the infrastructure is there, the technology is there today to go as far as we want to go with this.
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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.
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What's happening now with technology is we live with very porous boundaries. All those little interruptions fragment our time and attention and make us feel like work never ends. It makes us feel like we don't ever have that sacred time for family or to breathe or meditate or for leisure. Time is contaminated for everyone. I'm hoping that as we get used to these technologies we'll get smarter about how we use them and also how to shut them off.
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There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.
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How do we fill the need for technology workers, people who have computer skills and math and science skills? How do we get a more diverse science workforce? These are all issues - I would look at these documents that were from the '50s and '60s and '70s, and you'd swear they were written two weeks ago because the issues are the same.
