Quotes About Technology

The first step, and the thing that everyone has to do right on the Internet is make something people want.

Paintings are too hard. The things I want to show are mechanical. Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine, wouldn't you?

I think the very best thing about the internet is that I can read all the London papers every day if I want to.

I believe that it's fine if the university wants to regulate, for example, bandwidth access, but they should treat the students data as private data.

My feeling about the Internet or anything else is that the more it tends to become a cult, the more I want to call it into question.

I'd like 'Morning News' to become a great first edition electronic newspaper, so that the 'New York Times' will want to watch us.

Graphite also absorbs the shock of a hit. The first (graphite) clubs that came out were too flexible, but now you can get them to be just as firm as you want and need.

People are tired of just watching their TV set passively. They are playing interactive games today. They are on the Internet interacting. They want to be part of their TV set.

Well, lets just say, if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you dont want Linux.

Weve got to go [back to the moon]. But we dont want to stay too long. ... The ultimate goal is Mars.

People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

Do we want something more from our car? ... To perhaps be a partner, a coach, someone that can use their understanding of the situation to help us reach our potential.

I believe that the demand for long-form quality journalism is strong and I think that despite all of the changes in technology over the past few years, people still want in-depth, rigorous reporting.

I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs. There's no reason for it, but it stays around because there are still people that want them.

There's the people who have one of these cell phones in their pockets and don't have a clue how it's made. But I really want to understand.

The technology's going to change, but what people want to read is going to be basically the same.

The great lesson of the Internet revolution is not that people never want personal service, just that they won't pay for personal service that does not add real value to the transaction.

People are lazy, and they want their fast food via the television.

I now rely on a scanner, which reproduces the passages I want to cite, and then I keep my own comments on those books in a separate file so that I will never confuse the two again.

The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved.

Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'

Users think they know what they want, but you get the horseless carriage effect where you're getting asked for a faster horse.

Phone are wonderful instruments, but I wouldn't want our daughter to marry one.