Quotes About Technology

On July 20th, 1969, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong took the most expensive selfie in history. As the apex of an 8-year, $130 billion effort, they posed in front of a camera and took a shot designed to do one thing - to show our free enterprise democratic system was better than the rigid, authoritarian system that wanted to destroy us.

Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.

I actually am a computer nerd.

I think if I did do something in another genre, it would be science fiction; I'm a big sci fi nerd.

I was a nerd, growing up, I was really into computers and technology, and most of my friends were basically in that world as well.

I've been distilled to this computer nerd.

I have always been an aviation nerd. I read the magazines.

Bitcoin is coming from a bunch of young computer nerds who saw this thing and thought it was neat. A lot of the early bitcoiners are 19-year-old kids, still living at home with their parents, and they don't have any business experience.

I'd been on the Internet since the 1970s when it was just for nerds. I started saying, 'Who would benefit from this?' I started imagining a world where young people could have their own email address, back in the days of family AOL accounts.

I think a lot of people are frightened of technology and frightened of change, and the way to deal with something you're frightened of is to make fun of it. That's why science fiction fans are dismissed as geeks and nerds.

It was not until the appearance of cyberpunk in the 1980s that SF began to grapple in a broadly meaningful way with the reality of computers as something other than giant mainframes tended by crewcut IBM nerds.

I was nerdy and awkward and didn't know how to talk to people - except online.

The nervous system and the automatic machine are fundamentally alike in that they are devices, which make decisions on the basis of decisions they made in the past.

It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains.

Nest really came out of a process where I was trying to design the most connected and the most green home that I knew of. I was curious of just about everything that goes into a home and building a home.

The Internet has allowed even more growth possible than in the bricks and mortar industries that I dealt with years ago. It is easier to get a business to a million dollars/pounds in revenue on the net! It is not easy! But it is easier when compared to construction, etc., though all businesses use the Internet to enhance marketing.

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices.

When we try to make a car that drives itself, we believe - whether we're right or not - we believe that there would be strong net positive benefit to the world if cars could drive themselves safer than people could.

In the future, the Internet might become a 'brain net' where we send memories, feelings and sensations.

Can any sane person say that before something comes on the Net you must screen it? How can there be pre-screening?

In many ways, we look at Uber as the safety net for a city.

I use the Net for a lot of things besides e-mailing. I involve myself in chats with people as part of my research for characters.

I love to read. I don't get enough time to read. I love reading the Internet. I love reading magazines. I love going on the 'net.