Quotes About Technology

She turns on her laptop, raises her spectacles to her face. She reads the day's headlines. But they might be from any day. A click can take her from breaking news to articles archived years ago. At every moment the past is there, appended to the present. It's a version of Bela's definition, in childhood, of yesterday.

Glowing screens, increasingly foldable, portable, companionable, anticipating any possible question the human brain might generate.

The camera slung around his neck...was the only complicated thing he wore.

As disappointed as I am, I'm not surprised that my beloved stationery store no longer exists, the rents must be sky-high around here, and furthermore, who buys notebooks in the end? My students can barely write by hand, they press buttons to learn about life and explore the world. Their thoughts emerge on screens and dwell inside clouds that have no substance, no shortage of space.

How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn't work?

Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.

With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.

Mechanizing man's work had changed but not lighted his toil.

Photography is the first art wherein the tool does most of the work.

Using the Internet as as vehicle to work with people is fascinating. It's sort of a Pandora's box of energy for me.

I think what we need to do is we need to seek some other way in which to do what is potentially good work by Google. Google has made the world a better place in some ways.

I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.

I think the way the media is going to work in the future is less something that the population consumes and more something that the population creates.

What is interesting to me is to find ways to work with early-stage innovators to build from the edge and work on tomorrows ideas.

I really don't like conference calls to be honest. It's always something that bloody happens with a conference call - universally never works out.

The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.

Social media is the new way to communicate, the new way to show your work. You don't have to rely on stuffy, traditional, and conservative methods to be able to display your work.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all.

Being open source meant that I could work on the technical side (along with lots of other people), and others who had the interest and inclination could start up companies around it.

Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.

Virtual business out sources all the work and in sources all the profits.

Our work to improve privacy continues today.

As information becomes our environment, it becomes mandatory to program the environment itself as a work of art.