Quotes About Impact

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice.

The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.

Our technology forces us to live mythically

First click attribution is akin to giving my first girlfriend 100% of the credit for me marrying my wife.

Technology has an incredible role to play in enabling of policy issues.

The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.

The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

Today scientists, technologists, businessmen, engineers don't have any personal responsibility for the consequences of their actions.

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200 meters, today it is 4,000 meters.

Technology shapes society and society shapes technology.

If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

Technology has deprived the family of almost all its functions.

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. I hope that someday, our humanity might yet surpass our technology.

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

Many people recognize that technology often comes with unintended and undesirable side effects.

The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

I don't really find a problem with technology or television, or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.

Technology happens, it's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?

To me technology used wisely is a catalyst to magically transforming the way we live.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.