Quotes About Technology

En lugares como IBM, que se especializa en mejoras cotidianas realizadas por equipos de ingenieros, esta es la forma preferida de entender cómo se produce realmente la innovación.

The most important technology for the region's growth was, of course, the semiconductor. William Shockley, who had been one

summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs.

Steve created the only lifestyle brand in the tech industry," Larry Ellison said.

simply said that the Apple team knew the capabilities of the Be OS and asked if they

One of Steve Wozniak's first memories was going to his father's workplace on a weekend and being shown electronic parts, with his dad "putting them on a table with me so I got to play with them.

Machines such as these emerged in the 1950s, and during the subsequent thirty years there were two historic innovations that caused them to revolutionize how we live: microchips allowed computers to become small enough to be personal appliances, and packet-switched networks allowed them to be connected as nodes on a web.

hero of the piece was John Draper, a hacker known as Captain Crunch because he had discovered that the sound emitted by the toy whistle that came with the breakfast cereal was the same

Thus did Ada, Countess of Lovelace, help sow the seeds for a digital age that would blossom a hundred years later.

the ability to make connections across disciplines—arts and sciences, humanities and technology—is a key to innovation, imagination, and genius.

The invention of CRISPR and the plague of COVID will hasten our transition to the third great revolution of modern times. These revolutions arose from the discovery, beginning just over a century ago, of the three fundamental kernels of our existence: the atom, the bit, and the gene.

In his excitement, Jobs began to take over the daily management of the Lisa project, which was being run by John Couch, the former HP engineer.

Online services such as AOL developed independently of the Internet.

The people who invented the twenty-first century were pot-smoking, sandal-wearing hippies from the West Coast like Steve, because they saw differently," he said. "The hierarchical systems of the East Coast, England, Germany, and Japan do not encourage this different thinking.

you just don't want someone else to control a big part of the user experience. People may disagree with me, but I am pretty consistent about that.

The reason Apple resonates with people is that there's a deep current of humanity in our innovation. I think great artists and great engineers are similar, in that they both have a desire to express themselves.

The second half of the twentieth century was an information-technology era, based on the idea that all information could be encoded by binary digits—known as bits—and all logical processes could be performed by circuits with on-off switches.

More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With a ferocity that could make working with him as unsettling as it was inspiring, he also built the world's most creative company. And he was able to infuse into its DNA the design sensibilities, perfectionism, and imagination that make it likely to be, even decades from now, the company that thrives best at the intersection of artistry and technology.

you are interested in the history of the digital age and the emergence of digital culture, Isaacson's book is a must read." —

until 1992, it was illegal to connect a commercial service like AOL to the Internet," Steve Case said.37

The Innovator's Dilemma.)

When our tools don't work, we tend to blame ourselves, for being too stupid or not reading the manual or having too-fat fingers... When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and the World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

launched the Web in 1991, Tim Berners-Lee