Technology Quotes

"You can have the best technology, you can have the best business model, but if the storytelling isn't amazing, it won't matter. Nobody will watch." "The greatest achievement of humanity is not its works of art, science, or technology, but the recognition of its own dysfunction." "Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world." "To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games. Nothing like saving the world." "I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them." "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" "I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user." "The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day" "To understand the future, you do not need techno-autistic jargon, but the wisdom of the elders" "The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free" "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" "Everything is amazing right now and nobody is happy" "The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention." "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" "Proliferation is catalyzed by two forces: demand and the resulting cost decreases, each of which drives technology to become even better and cheaper" "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" "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." "The irony of general-purpose technologies is that, before long, they become invisible and we take them for granted" "The coming wave is defined by two core technologies: artificial intelligence (AI) and synthetic biology" "Our industry does not respect tradition, it only respects innovation."