Quotes About Technology

Data is the new oil.

We're going to need oil and gas and coal for a long time if America wants to keep the lights on.

Is it OK for Amazon to know every word of every book you've read? Are you comfortable with that? Maybe you are. Is it OK to let everybody know you eat Corn Flakes? OK, but then there are certain products you might not want people to know that you're using.

I never paid attention when the LP became the cassette and the cassette became the CD and now we're dealing, you know, with MP3s. It's okay.

It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either.

I like playing my Tamagotchi and Game Boy. They take me back to the old days when times were more simple.

Saving a letter from an old friend doesn't exist anymore. Everything is texted or emailed.

My 'new' knee now feels like a bionic knee compared with my old one.

I have the bigger iPad, but the Mini is the best. It just seems perfect. The old one seems so big and heavy. I like simple and clean.

I think Facebook is more for old people and, like, adults. My parents use Facebook. I honestly have never been on Facebook.

I actually have the Arcade PC at home, and it has 5,500 games on it. Everything from the old school, Galaga, Tron, Missile Command, anything you can think of, they're all on there. I love the old school games.

In the old world of business, there was often just one seat at the leadership table for women, two at best. That meant that only so many women could advance. But in a world where women recognize the power that they own - and where technology can upend the traditional rules of engagement - one woman winning doesn't mean another loses.

I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.

When asked to explain this space, I often ask people to forget pretty much everything you've heard about blockchains, crypto-currencies, and bitcoin, and instead dumb it down a lot and think about something no more complex or intimidating than good old-fashioned database technology.

For the next generation, focused on the future, the E.U. is as weird and old-fashioned as having a landline.

I do not own a cellphone; I do not use a cellphone. I do not have a phone. No. Phone. Not even an old-fashioned dumb one. Nothing.

I'm of the older generation. I accept the new technology, but I try to keep a bit of that away.

A lot of times, older people don't get the new generation.

Millions of Americans, older people, are on the Internet, watching pictures of their kids because they all moved to cities.

The computer has always been this ominous, scary thing that came into music, for me, in the early '90s, right when I first started playing music.

Everything will be tokenized and connected by a blockchain one day.

I've always loved far future SF, so it was more or less a given that I would one day want to write in that form.

By going to Mars one day, we will make things better for us here on Earth.

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!