Quotes About Technology

As technology progresses, and as it advances, many of us assume that these advances make us more intelligent, make us smarter and more connected to the world. And what I'd like to argue is that that's not necessarily the case, as 'progress' is simply a word for change, and with change you gain something, but you also lose something.

Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

Well, I've been recording myself on a computer since I was about 13 or 14. So it's completely entwined with my creative process. Essentially, it allows you to make music that's better and smarter than you are, by using your ears to lead the way.

We are the greatest computers in this world, but now we've created the smart phone which is smarter than us now, but we're still making dumb decisions. We have given our creations more power than we have, and that to me is dumb.

Every check-in should mean something. Foursquare should get smarter every time that you continue to check in. We should be able to offer special deals that you may be interested in, and we should be able to offer recommendations for the type of things you should do next.

Generation Y is much smarter. They just get information much more quickly. They really understand the idea of quality and value.

As our smartphone becomes even smarter, mobile technology should actually take the burden out of our daily lives.

ICT careers are becoming more complex as a result of the digital revolution, where smarter connections are being made between people, processes, data, and things.

We humans are not the end of evolution, so if we can make a machine that's as smart as a person, we can probably also make one that's much smarter. There's no point in making just another person. You want to make one that can do things we can't.

People assume that the smarter your home, the better your life, but in reality, technology so often gets in the way of leading a good life.

I've been fortunate to work with some really smart people. Larry Page is an extremely smart guy, most probably one of the smartest people I've worked with.

I watch 'Electronic Boy' faithfully every week - not because I like the show but because I'm interested in where the smartest T.V. producers and directors are going, what direction they are headed in.

Once the Internet removes geography as a constraint, the smartest people go to the most beautiful places.

At the Facebook engineering level are some of the smartest people I've ever worked with.

Some of the people at Ripple I think are truly the smartest people I've ever worked with in my career, which makes it a lot of fun to go to work every day.

Android is the kind of runaway smash hit that techies spend their careers dreaming about.

Apple is on fire, delivering smash hits across its entire product line. It's hard to think of another company that has ever been on such a roll.

The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.

One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

I hate all electronic things that are supposed to help the human being. You don't smell, you don't hear, you don't touch anymore.

Have you seen these Japanese hospital droids, or humanoids, or whatever they call it? They've perfected the skin, and the skin looks so real. They have these motors between the eyes for when they smile. It's just mind-blowing.

Our aim is to develop affectionate robots that can make people smile.

If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian.'