Quotes About Innovation

My first impulse, when presented with any spanking-new piece of computer hardware, is to imagine how it will look in ten years' time, gathering dust under a card table in a thrift shop.

Fables from before the Anaheiming.

The Ono-Sendai; next year's most expensive Hosaka computer; a Sony monitor; a dozen disks of corporate-grade ice; a Braun coffeemaker.

Wintermute was a simple cube of white light, that very simplicity suggesting extreme complexity.

No idea. None whatever. That's exactly what makes it so interesting.

Perched on the edge of Case's worktable like some kind of state of the art gargoyle

The counters that fronted the booths displayed hundreds of slivers of microsoft

The drivers for the jackpot are still in place, but with less torque at that particular point." He took a seat at the table. "They're still a bit in advance of the pandemics, at least.

maverick techs who liked earning danger money and had proven they could keep their mouths shut.

The Thirties dreamed white marble and slip-stream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze, but the rockets on the covers of the Gernsback pulps had fallen on London in the dead of night, screaming.

It's about atemporality. About opting out of the industrialization of novelty. It's about deeper code.

Algorithms are called the aunties. They're self-organising and so nobody fully understands them.

The charges have to do with conspiracy to augment an artificial intelligence.

I had no idea that no one else would do it.

The big news in biology this week was the announcement that we've stopped evolving, in the biological sense. I'll buy that. Technology has stopped us, and technology will take us on, into a new evolution, one Mr. Bush never dreamed of, and neither, I'm sure, have I.

My Johnny, see, he was smart, real flash boy. Started out as a stash on Memory Lane, chips in his head and people paid to hide data there.

I like it. A Silicon Valley ghost story.

Night City wasn't there for its inhabitants, but as a deliberately unsupervised playground for technology itself.

Far more creativity, today, goes into the marketing of products than into the products themselves

The whole industry wobbles along like a shopping cart with a missing wheel. You can only keep it moving if you lean on it a certain way and keep pushing, but if you stop, it tips over.

A pair of predatory-looking Christian Scientists were edging toward a trio of young office techs who wore idealized holographic vaginas on their wrists, wet pink glittering under the harsh lighting. The

They built the first computers to crack German ice, right? Codebreakers. So there was ice before computers, you wanna look at it that way.

The future is here, it's just not widely distributed yet.

carbon ribbon. There were