Quotes About Technology

It was hard enough to design chips in normal times. Doing so while battling the KGB was impossible.

the two main types of memory chip—DRAM and NAND—are produced by only a couple of firms.

Chip sales to the Apollo program transformed Fairchild from a small startup into a firm with one thousand employees. Sales ballooned from $500,000 in 1958 to $21 million two years later.

The market for NAND, the other main type of memory chip, is also Asia-centric. Samsung, the biggest

in recent years is the collapse in the share of logic chips produced in the United States.

Real men" might have fabs, but Silicon Valley's new wave of semiconductor entrepreneurs didn't.

Nvidia's GPUs can render

images quickly because, unlike Intel's microprocessors or other general-purpose CPUs, they're structured to conduct lots of simple calculations—like shading pixels—simultaneously.

The spread of semiconductors was enabled as much by clever manufacturing techniques as academic physics. Universities like MIT and Stanford played a crucial role in developing knowledge about semiconductors, but the chip industry only took off because graduates of these institutions spent years tweaking production processes to make mass manufacturing possible. It was engineering and intuition, as much as scientific theorizing, that turned a Bell Labs patent into a world-changing industry

Nvidia discovered a vast new market for parallel processing, from computational chemistry to weather forecasting.

Social media is great, I guess, but it feels like technology is the sapper of innocence.

You can be many miles away and press a button on a keyboard, and it can cause devastation.

know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.' — Albert Einstein

Working software is the primary measure of progress.

In space, everyone can hear you go pew pew .

Well, in our industry it's that the movies cost so much money to make they have to appeal to a broad audience. And I think that's part of what will loosen up in the future, as technology makes it cheaper, you'll be able to make films for a more selective audience. I think people will be able to make more personal movies.

This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has.

I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.

Part of the opposition to GMO technology is political and ideological, fuelled by hostility against the perceived ills of capitalism and globalization.

Frontend engineering rocks right now.

Nella nostra società individualista, e quindi lacerata e incoerente, abbiamo dimenticato il passato e non attribuiamo importanza se non all'effimero. Per questo corriamo verso la catastrofe, e le nuove tecnologie, contrariamente all'opinione diffusa, non ci salveranno affatto. La religione è l'oppio dei popoli, Internet è la sua eroina.

I don't need a whole lot to be happy now. You want to have a roof over your head, to have a car, to have Internet. You need to have Internet, that's just, there's just no other way. Like your house is not really actually a habitable house if it doesn't have Internet. You could live without water or trash, but not without Internet. -- young, Emerging Adults interviewed on their lifestyle.