Quotes About Technology

We, as a country, have always used innovative technology to advance environmental stewardship, reduction of those pollutants, but also grown our economy at the same time.

If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.

The issue of fracking is a stick in the hornet's nest.

The whole point of cryopreserving only one's head is based on the idea that one can simply grow in the laboratory an entire new body, without a head, and stick it onto the cryopreserved head.

There are a lot of similarities between cyberspace and the frontier. It's pretty raw and primitive. I mean, you have to churn your own butter in cyberspace. You can't go down to the 7-Eleven and buy a stick of butter because it's not that well developed.

You can't just stick someone's name on a headphone that doesn't know anything about sound.

We need to get used to seeing humans with antennas sticking out of their heads.

Sooner or later, the headphone jack is going away. There are just too many reasons aligned against it sticking around any longer.

Once you see the problems that algorithms can introduce, people can be quick to want to throw them away altogether and think the situation would be resolved by sticking to human decisions until the algorithms are better.

VR should be more emotionally involving, but that doesn't happen automatically by just taking a VR camera and sticking it onto what would be a traditionally blocked scene for 2D.

I love memory sticks. They seem to me to be magic.

I think I'm the last generation that remembers life before the smartphone. I'm going to be one of them old geezers going, 'You know, when I was a kid, we used to play with sticks.'

I remember playing that tennis game with the two sticks, 'Pong.' That was crazy when I first saw it. It's funny to think that 'Pong' blew me away since all it was was a ball going back and forth.

Google's competitors fail to demonstrate that Google's actions stifle competition rather than reflect pro-consumer innovations.

Most parents don't want their kids to have smartphones in the first place. But parents worry about the social stigma of their child being the only one without a phone.

Anything can change, because the smartphone revolution is still in the early stages.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

The Internet has become my enabler. It keeps me from stillness and discomfort, and this keeps me from growing.

We begin to change the world when we stimulate long-term prosperity using technology. There is not a problem that's large enough that innovation and entrepreneurship can't solve.

Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.

I won't let my daughters go on screens at least half an hour before bed because I think it stimulates them a little bit.

I don't think that the Internet creates feelings that aren't there, nor does it provide an outlet. On the contrary, what I have thought about things like computer games - what has disturbed me about them - is that they appear to stimulate feelings of aggression without providing any physical release.

The image of the robot is very important to us, it's very stimulating to people's imaginations.

Originally, technology was pretty clearly on the side of introversion. It allowed introverts to connect with people, to express their ideas in a less stimulating way: you're sitting alone behind a computer. But I'm starting to think that the pressure to self-present constantly online is becoming so extreme.