Technology Quotes

"The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind." "The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting" "Software is eating the world" "In short, software is eating the world because it is building automation into every aspect of the modern economy" "The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories: people who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do" "The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had" "In the Internet century, the objective is to keep innovation happening faster" "The Internet of Things will augment your brain" "Technology is always evolving, and companies need to fundamentally innovate and change themselves to keep up" "Our industry does not respect tradition, it only respects innovation." "The coming wave is defined by two core technologies: artificial intelligence (AI) and synthetic biology" "The irony of general-purpose technologies is that, before long, they become invisible and we take them for granted" "Over time, then, the implications of these technologies will push humanity to navigate a path between the poles of catastrophe and dystopia. This is the essential dilemma of our age" "From the written word to sailing vessels, technology increases interconnectedness, helping to boost its own flow and spread. Each wave hence lays the groundwork for successive waves" "Proliferation is catalyzed by two forces: demand and the resulting cost decreases, each of which drives technology to become even better and cheaper" "Consider that children who grew up traveling by horse and cart and burning wood for heat in the late nineteenth century spent their final days traveling by airplane and living in houses warmed by the splitting of the atom" "The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention." "Everything is amazing right now and nobody is happy" "People say, 'My phone sucks.' No, it doesn't! The shittiest cell phone in the world is a miracle. Your life sucks. Around the phone" "The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free"