Quotes About Technology

Technologically, it is not hard to launch an object into space. Emotionally, it has been difficult.

I don't think anyone would object to Facebook selling ads or having ads directed at me, as long as people didn't think those ads were manipulated by personal data.

Lack of romance is my real objection to writing on a computer.

It will not work to keep asking men to change. Many have no real objective to do so. There's no reward for them. Why should they change? They're doing well inside the halls of coding.

That has always been the objective of Apple: to do things that really enrich people's lives. That you look back on and you wonder, 'How did I live without this?'

We have persistant objects, they're called files.

It is interesting that cyberwarfare is developing into something conventional and attacking objects, infrastructure, and critical services.

When you talk about objects, one other thing automatically comes attached to that thing, and that is gestures: how we manipulate these objects, how we use these objects in everyday life. We use gestures not only to interact with these objects, but we also use them to interact with each other.

If we're going to continue making advances up there in space, then we have an obligation to do the same down here on Earth.

I spent many, many hours with my computer, and it really bugged me that it was very oblivious to my emotional state. And that kind of inspired and motivated me to build an emotionally intelligent computer.

After coming from a major label, I realized the entire business has been decimated, and you can't look to labels to try to figure it out because they don't even use the technology, and they're oblivious to how people consume music these days.

I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations.

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.

As a technologist, I'm obsessed with searching for the next killer app.

I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.

I'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.

I'm obsessed by Instagram.

We've always had a sadistic obsession with technology.

My laboratory and my obsession is about safety and building/engineering safety. It's not just a matter of saying we want the world to be safer; we have to create technology.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

The stethoscope for listening to the heart is over. It's obsolete.

It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years!

In general, obsolete technology is obsolete for a reason. Monocles are no exception.

We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.