Quotes About Technology

I don't think the computer will win the Booker, but no-one ever expected a computer to beat a chess grandmaster.

I don't know really, apart from Barnes & Noble, where you buy CDs anymore.

There's nobody who has as big of a real-time logistics network than Uber.

Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.

Nobody knows what anticipation is anymore. Everything is so immediate.

Back in the day, you could have a crap gig, and nobody would film you. Now, everybody's got an iPhone - you have a bad day, and it's going on the Internet.

'Altered Carbon' is one of the most seminal pieces of post-cyberpunk hard science fiction out there - a dark, complex noir story that challenges our ideas of what it means to be human when all information becomes encodable, including the human mind.

It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.

There's a lot of noise in the world, and the Internet magnifies that energy.

The contextual age means we're going to have to go to war on noise.

Over years, the noise level will be brought down, and LIGO will be three times better and see three times farther.

I've been fascinated with technology since I was a boy banging around on my father's adding machine. Back then I'd type in an equation, the device made some cool noises, and out came my answer. I was hooked.

On 'Honeybabysweetiedoll' I used a Whammy, a Boss OC-3 octave box, a Sustainer and a Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler. That's only on the intro, where all those weird noises are happening.

I'm concerned by a deficient technology. In other words, errors or noises. It absorbs me, and I wonder if new cultural currents could emerge from this deficiency.

I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.

I like to read non-fiction on my e-reader, but as for fiction, I usually like to have a copy to keep at home.

Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.

I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand. I think if I didn't have a computer, I just couldn't do it. Maybe it's a brain-section issue.

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

The idea that it's only the young or people who've grown up with a technology who can appreciate it. Complete nonsense!

We took Infosys public. That was a nonstop three-week global roadshow.