Quotes About Technology

The whole social media can destroy people overnight.

When you innovate, you create new industries that then boost your economy. And when you create new industries and that becomes part of your culture, your jobs can't go overseas because no one else has figured out how to do it yet.

A lack of government oversight hasn't hindered the Internet. Quite the opposite. A hands-off approach is largely responsible for its fantastic growth and success.

These days it is not very easy to overtake in Formula One, the cars have great aerodynamic downforce. When you are behind a car, you lose downforce.

Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.

Apple's iPod success led them to believe an even bigger breakthrough was possible with the iPhone. In some respects, the iPhone hype overwhelmed even Apple.

I don't feel overwhelmed with information. I really like it.

If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed by the daily decisions you have to make, it's time to automate something.

When you automate a previously all-human system, it becomes entirely deterministic.

Yes, technology is moving swiftly, but (the High-Tech Illusion again) most of what you're doing is not truly high-tech work. While the machines have changed enormously, the business of software development has been rather static. We still spend most of our time working on requirements and specification, the low-tech part of our work. Productivity within the software industry has improved by 3 to 5 percent a year, only marginally better than the steel or automobile industry.

More important than any gimmick you introduce is a change in attitude. People must learn that it's okay sometimes not to answer their phones, and they must learn that their time–not just the quantity but its quality–is important.

There is probably no job on earth for which an ability to believe six impossible things before breakfast is more of a requirement than software project management.

The stage has been set. The Internet will increasingly intersect with culture and government, pulsing through society and disrupting and reshaping the relationship between rulers and ruled that has existed for millennial. Ultimately we are still humans with the same timeless desires, but technology is opening new worlds of possibility. It is empowering societies and creating new definitions of community.

He was tired of having only three channels.

Movie-making is telling a story with the best technology at your disposal.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they're all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

Life is becoming no more than staring at the screen.

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.

All computers expect to be yelled at. There's not a single computer in the whole world that hasn't been sworn at. Even the discreet little VDU with the crossed keys monogram on the keyboard that sits on the Pope's desk in his office in the Vatican has in its time heard language that'd make a Marine blush.

Cool technology alone is not enough. If it were, we'd all be riding Segways and playing with robotic dogs.

The US military's greatest shame is that it today remains a Second Generation force, despite the ready availability of books like Fighting Power that clearly show the superiority of the Third Generation.

martial transformation from the Western way of war to a neo-Eastern way of war is, like most historical changes in the art of war, the result of technological advancement. The