Quotes About Technology

At VMware, we did the virtualization, which is now used extensively across the cloud. Virtualization layers - and containers - are what facilitated the cloud originally.

I had originally wanted to be a lawyer. Even when I went to college and majored in engineering, I still thought I'd get a law degree. Then I started taking electrical engineering classes where I saw some of the innovation happening around computers and solid-state technology in the mid '80s.

The things that I was building on originally for the defense of our democracies had been completely inverted to really, in my view, attack our democracies.

I didn't fully appreciate the impact of what I helped create until 2016 happened. Very soon after that, I started working for The Guardian, originally as an anonymous source.

Every street in London has a camera, and if you ever travel up the M4, it feels as if George Orwell should be your chauffeur.

When I was a kid, there were really only two possible futures in the foreground, which were Orwell's '1984' and Huxley's 'Brave New World'.

Some people are using landline connections and dial-up modems to call ISPs in other countries and get onto the Internet. Still others are using satellite connections.

The manufacture and running of all the world's computers, the toxicity of the hardware mountains that we currently dump on other countries; all this can be totted up on the environmental account of web-users and its authors.

Other kids went out and beat each other up or played baseball, and I built electronics.

To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.

The exchange by e-mail is more intimate than conversation - you allow yourself to say things you otherwise wouldn't.

When I was a television broadcasting student in 1993 up in Ottawa, Canada, and my friends and I started making a show, I consciously set out to apply comedy to technology. I started tomgreen.com back in 1994, and we weren't able to put video on there yet, but we were aware that that was coming.

And I feel that filmmakers ought to be careful with the use of 3D. Because if you look back over the decades, you see that 3D has come and gone for I don't know how many years now.

Everyone on the founding team ought to invest the time in a coding bootcamp.

Car accidents kill so many of us; we're not going to give up cars, so it seems like we ought to make them harder to crash.

We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

In a way, 'Like Crazy' keys into our generation, this idea of now we can still be in communication. Where do the boundaries of relationships end?

Technology is something you have to embrace because technology is part of our generation. Digital natives, for instance, are people who grew up in a world that always had the Internet and who always had smartphones. Millennials aren't too far behind: my generation of people, who were in the mix of the Internet when it first came out.

Falling in love in our generation just isn't as popular as it used to be.

Unfortunately cybercrime is the crime of our generation.

We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.

We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.