Technology Quotes

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it" "Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough" "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" "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." "We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works." "In terms of the Internet, it's like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were like a cell communicating by diffusion, now we are like a multicellular organism with a nervous system. This is an unprecedented good." "Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind I am free." "We are morphing so fast that our ability to invent new things outpaces the rate we can civilize them." "Cheetah with a rocket booster" "Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you" "Development is the key to solving all problems" "We want Google to be the third half of your brain" "My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70 million in Tesla, and $10 million in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent." "We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain." "My VCR is flashing 12:00 all the time. Can you help me?" "Great innovations, large and small, are happening everyday [at Amazon] on behalf of customers." "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."