Quotes About Technology

I think the challenge for all technology companies is to modify what they're doing to be what the market needs at that point.

A molecular gastronomist is really just someone who explores the world of science and food.

We have to accept that we are just machines. That's certainly what modern molecular biology says about us.

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

Our approach to medicine is very 19th-century. We are still in the dark ages. We really need to get to the molecular level so that we are no longer groping about in the dark.

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

Our femtosecond snapshots can examine a molecule at discrete instants in time.

We went from a world where almost nobody knew anything about computers to a world where almost all of us are computer geeks for a huge fraction of our day. And I'd like to see that happen with the digital world of biological molecules, too.

On Sept. 12, 2016, there was a momentary realignment in the constellation of global business. For the first time, the five largest public corporations in the world by market capitalization were all technology companies: Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon.com, and Facebook.

I've had moments where it's like being in the Matrix.

A lot of that momentum comes from the fact that Linux is free.

Mommy and Daddy both had jobs when I was a kid, so, like a lot of people my age, TV became Mommy and books became Daddy.

For my grandmother's generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it's the iPhone. And that's enabled us to do so many different things more efficiently at home.

I think I'll be one of those moms that doesn't raise her kids with too much technology around because I didn't have much of that growing up. I was creative and played with what I had.

I see a lot of moms and dads frustrated because their kids have their devices at the dinner table and they can't seem to get their attention as much as they used to.

Ben Franklin may have discovered electricity- but it is the man who invented the meter who made the money.

Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.

The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.

The constant monitoring of our emotional landscape and personal interactions is a bizarre concept. But it is one that could help many people.

That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry. It broadcasted its message and everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy and actually restoring a more natural way.

I think of AI itself as a monster of capitalism.

I just don't think CGI is up to manipulating the human face yet. I feel like you can get away with it with aliens or monsters or something that's intentionally foreign, but I have yet to see anything digital to do with the human face that doesn't just look ridiculous.

Computers double their performance every month.

You would rather pay $50 a month for a cable modem than a free voiceband modem because of the attractiveness of that broadband connection.