Quotes About Technology

I certainly get a lot of people who ask me about what it's like at SpaceX, and have you learned from it, and are there things you're taking away that you apply to your own business. The answer to all those is yes.

I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.

In the future we might not prescribe drugs all the time - we might prescribe apps.

Apps have made it easier to meet people but harder to connect.

I think dating apps are keeping us apart.

If you look at things that are popular apps, it doesn't mean it's going to stick around.

If you say 'Domo arigato' to people, they're apt to go, 'Mr. Roboto.'

I have not only Arms but a large proportion of Armourers to make.

I don't like the selfie because it's too close. There ain't no people with arms long enough to do a selfie of me.

The PC is going to become one key product in an ever-expanding array of products.

Podcasts feel about as accessible and ubiquitous as books or articles or anything like that.

I'd rather see artificial intelligence than no intelligence.

You can imagine all the things that people want in machine learning and artificial intelligence area that we're working on, that we'll continue to work on in the future.

The world has accelerated to the point that, as far as the album as a form, I don't know if it's going to last that much longer.

Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them.

There's my education in computers, right there this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book.

Computers: he always fixed on computers when his mind wandered into the future--instruments he revered and hated. The computer world was a place where snotty kids knew everything and nothing.... The computer was part of a future cloudy, unpredictable and menacing.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

When I talk about "cyborg literacy," I mean a set of skills and social practices that optimize the ability to use physical and cognitive technologies to augment, amplify, or extend human thinking and communication capabilities.

knowing how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

Living in the same city as Microsoft, I'm only too aware that, even in low-technology businesses like coffee, the Next Big Thing could knock the dominant player into second place tomorrow. I keep pushing to make sure that Starbucks thinks of the Next Big Thing before it has even crossed anybody else's mind. In fact, Don Valencia is working on it even as I'm writing this book.

When we went to automatic espresso machines, we solved a major problem in terms of speed of service and efficiency. At the same time, we overlooked the fact that we would remove much of the romance and theater that was in play. .

Content and technology are strange bed fellows. We are joined together. Sometimes we misunderstand each other. But isn't that after all the definition of marriage?

It is too easy for the sheer mass of big data to overwhelm the sorts of healthy skepticism that is required to defeat deception. And now, with so much of our lives being tied up with giant electronic memory systems, it is almost trivial for terabytes of data to accumulate on almost any topic.