Quotes About Technology

The FBI frequently arrests Chinese nationals for stealing research-and-development secrets.

Most big companies work in stealth until they think they have a consumer product ready to go.

With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

'Night Mail' belongs quintessentially to the age of steam. It is impossible to simply go with the idea of remaking it.

The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

By means of steam one can go from California to Japan in eighteen days.

Mode of providing steam power to locomotives.

In 1854 I took out a patent for puddling iron by means of steam.

The future is in green energy; it's in making steel for energy-efficient cars.

You need nerves of steel if climbing aboard a rocket is your career path.

Steel is needed everywhere.

Hyperloop is a decades-long effort. You're moving steel and reshaping physical things, so you need government to help you build.

Where I stand, or where the people I work with stand, is the technology is inevitable, so it's about how do we steer it.

I literally worked at research labs where the staff really tried to steer management away from the modern technology that was actually better.

Social media, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter - I steer away from them. They're alienating us socially as well as bringing us together.

Apple was very important in terms of disrupting the music business and remaking the television business. They made it harder for people to make money on the things that they produce. In news, they've created Apple News, and they've tried to steer people towards information.

Technology is amoral, but it requires humanistic values to steer it in a way that's empowering, and not detrimental to social progress. It's up to us to maximize the good and minimize the bad.

As Apple advances the medical promise of its watch and smartphones, it has also made clear that its foremost aim is to steer clear of Food and Drug Administration regulation.

Building advanced AI is like launching a rocket. The first challenge is to maximize acceleration, but once it starts picking up speed, you also need to focus on steering.

A report released by the Partnership for a New American Economy and the Partnership for New York City predicts that by 2018, there will be 800,000 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) jobs in the United States that require a master's degree or higher - and only around 550,000 American-graduates with this training.

We need more STEM grads, and we need to quit equipping our competitors.