Technology Quotes
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Real breakthroughs are not found because you want to develop some new technology, but because you are curious and want to find out how the world is.
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The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at no cost.
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Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.
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We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.
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I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.
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We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often 'crash' when we tried to use them.
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We created Lyft because we want to establish a radically different concept of personal transportation. We want people to think of transportation as a service enabled by technology instead of as an expensive and large piece of hardware to own.
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The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.
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Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.
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Information is the lifeblood of medicine and health information technology is destined to be the circulatory system for that information.
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One of the things I have taken for granted, in terms of how technology works in the world, is the people that develop it and get it out there don't really know what we are going to do with until we have really gotten ahold of it and it has become ubiquitous. And then we wind up doing things that its inventors never dreamed of and those things become the real change drivers. That is actually where the whole technocracy thing falls apart for me, because the people who invented it can't predict what we're going to do with it.
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If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!
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I became interested in educational technologies because I believe that they have the potential to transform how we practice and think about education and learning.
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If the Chinese decide to take leadership in this area and decide to challenge us both commercially as well as perhaps strategically, then the United States has to make a very, very clear decision about whether or not we are going to advance our space technology or whether or not we are going to rest on our laurels of the past.
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Creative people are notoriously the slowest to adopt new technology.
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Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!
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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.
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I want to push technology boundaries to be more efficient.
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We have to take our democracy back. We cannot leave it to Facebook or Snapchat or anyone else. We have to take democracy back and renew it. Society is about people and not about technology.
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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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There are lots of different ways that algorithms can go wrong, and what we have now is a system in which we assume because it's shiny new technology with a mathematical aura that it's perfect and it doesn't require further vetting. Of course, we never have that assumption with other kinds of technology.
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What it takes to get people from liking and sharing and retweeting to organising is a hard and long process. Technology has really changed the game in terms of how people participate and what they decide to participate in.
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I've always been the type that's more about academics and technology.
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Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table.
