Quotes About Technology

You can't go to the store and buy 'the Engagement Platform.'

We hear lots of stories where grandparents go to a store and buy a smartphone so they can keep in touch with kids and grandkids.

I do think I have a lesser ability to remember facts and names than I have done previously, because you never have to store them; you just look them up again. I could make the same recipe 15 times, but I'll never, ever remember how to make it because I'll just look it up.

Until Amazon creates a drone that can cut your hair, there's a physical and real reason to come to the store.

If you are going to store your e-wallet on your own server, don't keep your e-wallet on your desktop, and make sure you use encryption. If you lose your computer, your bitcoins are lost forever.

We don't view the App Store as a really big opportunity for dedicated games.

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own.

Experience is going to be even more important than it used to be - people will want to live something when they are in our stores, otherwise they'll just buy on their phones.

We must permeate the stores with creativity and offer service when and to the degree the customer wants it. Of course, it means offering all the omni bells and whistles they want, like in-store pickup, same-day delivery, and mobile point of sale, and all of this must be done every hour of every day the store is open.

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.

It's hard for us in our stores to be a leader in technology.

During the boom years of the 1990s, globalization emerged as the most significant development in our national life. With NAFTA and the Internet and big-box stores selling cheap goods from China, the line between national and international began to blur.

I don't relate to what's left of the music business. There doesn't seem to be any point to it anymore. The business that I grew up in and loved, we made records a different way - there were record companies, there were stores where you could buy albums.

Where past generations had film cameras, scrapbooks, notebooks, and that part of the brain which stores memories, we now have a smartphone app for every conceivable recording need.

I think the good thing about the Internet is to give something away and to sell something else. Get a business model like that because the old brick and mortar record stores are falling apart, and the big record companies are collapsing under their own weight.

Some grocery stores began using electronic scanners as early as 1976, and the devices have been in general use in American supermarkets for a decade.

The Internet's changed everything. There are no record stores to hang out in anymore.

At Bonobos, we believe that human beings are tired of shopping in stores.

My father was a small business owner. When I was growing up, he ran a one-hour photo store - back when there were one-hour photo stores.

You used to make records, record companies sold them, and people went to record stores and bought them. That's all gone now.

For me, I've always been intimidated by the computer coming from the era of record industry and record stores and buying records and looking at album covers, waiting in line for records when they came out and then ultimately being successful in a band where we recording pre-computer era.

Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.

I've heard stories of people meeting the loves of their lives online, and that's great. But it freaks me out.