Quotes About Technology

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.

In television, everything is possible and nothing is sure.

There used to be this country called the Soviet Union it's not there anymore. Our technology was better than theirs.

There was a time when nails were high-tech. There was a time when people had to be told how to use a telephone. Technology is just a tool. People use tools to improve their lives.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

People live longer today than they ever have. They live happier lives, have more knowledge, more information. All this is the result of communications technology. How is any of that bad?

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.

Cats have been all over the Internet for many years. This makes total sense, as they seem to spend half their lives trying to stand and sit on the keyboards of our laptops.

People have a habit, in the age of cameraphones and social networking, of being a bit too quick to turn all sorts of experiences into a 'memory'.

I think that there are changes that have occurred in technology that make is that more people can have the same level of information that I have. My advantage is that I'm very good at interpreting the information.

We think the fastest way to clean the ocean is to learn by doing.

We're working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input.

I developed my camera system, called the Medusa, jointly with a colleague down in Australia as a method of exploring the ocean unobtrusively. The critical thing was that we didn't use white light, which I believe has been scaring the animals away.

The Deep Flight Challenger technology is a game-changer for ocean exploration.

Deep ocean drilling is not new.

I had a Kindle for a brief while, but I dropped it in the ocean, and that was the end of electronic reading for me.

Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983.

I do change the odd lightbulb, and I fix the Internet when it goes down, because it's something I am really good at.

There is an odd mix of permeability and impermeability in the Net. You won't be able to communicate with everyone, and not every application will be accessible to everyone.

In an odd sort of way, the computer and the Internet is the hermit's ideal form of communication. You don't have to see anyone. To send an email, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just send it, and they'll read it on their own. The Internet has been really good for hermits.

We are moving into a world where companies will be able to offer us products and services based on our last two hours of activity. This is both exciting and frightening at the same time.

Removed from 'Gmail' doesn't necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which Google models our behaviors - the real product it is offering its advertisers.

The Internet offers endangered languages a chance to have a public voice in a way that would not have been possible before.

The iPhone calendar isn't bad, but it isn't great, either. It only offers a day view and a month view - it doesn't have a week view, which drives me crazy.