Quotes About Technology

Down the road, the most controversial approach to neuroenhancement could be a way not of stimulating the brain but of reengineering it.

The stimulation I get from my phone does not feel like the opposite of boredom to me. It actually feels like a different flavor of boredom... a twitchier flavor. And sometimes, it's almost more irritation than stimulation. It's an itch.

We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.

I'm not only a fan of Apple products, I have stock in the company. I think Steve Jobs has started one of the greatest corporations in the world.

Silver is used in the electronics industry and is consumed daily; stock piles of silver are dwindling.

Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.

Who owns the future? This is the question at the heart of every stock market.

Technology investment drove growth in the 1990s, both directly and by fueling a rising stock market that led to increased consumer spending.

While everyone would love to have that perfect portfolio of stocks that can be bought and held forever, it usually does not work out that way. Markets, technology, and businesses change too quickly to put portfolios on autopilot.

If someone stole your keys to encrypt the data, it didn't matter how secure the algorithms were.

For decades, without so much as a peep from the Trump-hating establishment, China manipulated its currency and stole American technology.

Fingerprint readers require special hardware, and a lot of people find them creepy and don't want to use them. Smart cards and tokens can be lost or stolen.

I periodically lose my phone, damage my phone, have my phone stolen - what ever happens to mobile phones happens to me.

We know that al Qaeda is seeking radioactive materials and technology to launch a devastating attack, and that hundreds of radioactive sources have been lost or stolen in the U.S. and around the world.

From logos to software - you name it, the Chinese have stolen it - and they'll keep stealing it, if left unchecked.

In our ephemeral information age, people think we've left behind the stone, bronze, and iron ages. But they're all still going on - we use tonnes of this stuff every day. You just have to look.

I think, in today's football, you have to have a certain degree of technology. If not, you're living in the stone ages.

I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.

I think people know Steve Jobs the showman. I think people know the guy who stood up and gave the keynotes. The magician. The salesman.

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

When the Internet first came, I thought it was just the beacon of freedom. People could communicate with anyone, anywhere, and nobody could stop it.

As we decipher our biology and learn to modify and adjust it, we are learning to modify ourselves - and we will do so. No laws will stop this.

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

The biggest problem is that people have stopped being critical about the role of the computer in their lives. These machines went from being feared as Big Brother surrogates to being thought of as metaphors for liberty and individual freedom.