Quotes About Technology

We mustn't forget we chose the name 'WWW' before there was even one line of code written. We could do that because the Internet as an infrastructure was already there.

If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual identities come easily to these dual screeners. They fear a separate Scotland would be a narrowing, not a broadening, experience.

One of the things that always appealed to me about Nasa was we were always doing cool stuff that no-one's done before.

Robotics has been around forever, and it's been the next big thing forever, and it is so exciting and compelling that it's easy to get carried away. People almost always do, and that's one of the things that has held back the industry.

One of the things about the modern world is that the public and the private - which is not the same as the public and the personal - but the public and the private... it's very, very much harder than it used to be to have things that are private and things that are public.

One of the things I've come to realize is that, like every new technology and like every disruption, broadband has downsides.

One of the things that we have to keep in mind on Iran is Iran is also a country with ballistic missiles, cyber capabilities.

One of the things that has plagued bitcoin is not bitcoin itself but the companies built on top of it.

I would give anything if it went back to analog age. I mean, music was so real, and you had to sing everything on a record; you had to play everything on a record. There was no cut-and-paste - you couldn't get the chorus right one time and then paste it every other time; you really had to be good at what you did.

Twitter is basically just writing a bunch of one-liners - it's a short form or whatever.

For three or four decades, we've been sitting here in front of this TV consuming a one-way medium that we had no control over.

I don't watch TV. I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.

I get really scared about how the Internet is shifting and changing everyone's minds, and the way we see ourselves and interact online. Everything is so diluted now.

If you put something online, it's essentially there forever. You don't know who's kept it, who's screenshotted it.

I trust online banking. You know why? Because if somebody hacks into my account and defrauds my credit card company, or my online bank account, guess who takes the loss? The bank, not me.

When Amazon emerged, people had these debates about whether people would put their credit cards online.

Hijacking other's meetings or classrooms - this is online crime.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

I don't do online banking.

I go home, I have dinner with my wife and kids, and after my kids go to bed, I'm back online doing stuff.

Online is another way for all of us to reach people.

A lot of people have put their lives online and are using MySpace to manage their social lives.

Nowadays, you don't need to live in a fashion capital of the world, have lots of money, or be able to shop during certain hours. With online retail, it's possible to browse and shop for fashion anytime of the day, from pretty much anywhere.