Quotes About Technology

In the age of Big Data, the von Neumann bottleneck has philosophical implications. The more knowledge that is put into a von Neumann machine, the bigger and more crowded its memory, the further away its average data address, and the slower its functioning.

the world—have been sucked up into the phantasmagorical pages of a novel by Neal Stephenson, the shy West Coast

Devoid of the outside influences of capital and technology, the source of bitcoin value becomes the pure irreversible passage of time. The

Traditionally the haven currency was the U.S. dollar, but since early 2018—from Greece to Venezuela, from Argentina to Zimbabwe—the haven has increasingly been bitcoin.

Originating in large scale electronic warfare and anti-jamming technologies for the battlefield devised by two Russian immigrants, these now one-chip systems can fit in a handset and enable intercommunication among the towers of Babel in urban America.

Dmitry Buterin introduced his son to bitcoin, and Robert Russell, now CFO of Luminar, pushed Austin ahead in optics.

Ever since the millennial crash, the United States has been buffeted by currency shocks, interest-rate gyrations, and financial device bubbles. Government fashions move "investment" from real estate consumption to climate distractions. It was technology alone that saved the world economy.

Yet I believe the Google system of the world will fail, indeed be swept away in our time (and I am seventy-eight!). It will fail because its every major premise will fail.

Google after acquiring intimate knowledge of its technology may make a thousand-fold return over five to seven years. A firm such as Renaissance might make a thousand trades in a day harvesting the tiniest anomalies. With modest leverage and relentless twenty-four-hour trading around the globe,

If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.

Growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I was fascinated by mechanical and electrical gadgets—anything with a cord, a plug, a battery, a light, a motor.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

The amplification of our lives by technology grants us a power over the natural world which we can no longer afford to use. In everything we do we must now be mindful of the lives of others, cautious, constrained, meticulous. We may no longer live as if there were no tomorrow.

The invasion of our privacy by our every move being watched on the internet and our being filmed when we step outside is like the weather. We bitch but we still put up with it.

We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

My hope is that we will turn Greece into maybe the most transparent country in the world with everything on the web.

I'm not being pessimistic at all. I think God will eventually destroy this technological civilization. I'm very optimistic about that.

I am ineluctably drawn to the gloomy conclusion that the genius of the American people will drive them into ever tightening bonds of enslavement to technological progress. Out of this the machine will emerge triumphant, man will concern himself exclusively with its maintenance, and we shall all sing, "Oh say, does that star-spangled banner still wave O'er the land of TV and the home of the slave.

I recall the eerie pleasure of getting a copy of the U-2 Users' Manual .

I had a very interesting experience with P.C.Chatterjee, one of my investment advisors. His concept was to look at technology companies as asset-rich companies, where the customer was treated as an asset. If a company had a strong customer base, it could be worth a lot even though it had a lousy management and a lack of products. And he felt that with a little push, these values could be unlocked. It proved to be a valid concept.

The age of the book is almost gone.

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.