Quotes About Technology

I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.

One of the reasons that I really don't mind that people are selling Linux commercially is exactly because it does make me feel good that people use the product.

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.

If you are active online or texting, there is a good chance I could look at what you do and know more about you than your family.

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

A good story needs conflict, and virtual reality is a great hypothetical way to create conflict. ... In some ways, the future is going to be more boring than we think.

Twitter is so stupid. I mean, it sucks! It's not a good way to communicate and it's really difficult to use it for any functional thing.

The Internet has obviously wiped music off the human map - killed the record shop, and killed the patience of labels who consider debut sales of 300,000 to not be good enough.

In a hyper-connected world where average is over, there is one thing we know absolutely for sure: Every good job will require more education.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files.

Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.

Bitcoin is not a currency for a government; it is a global currency for the people.

Well, take the evolution of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It began as hackers' rights. Then it became general civil liberties of everybody - government stay away.

As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

The NSA has built an infrastructure that allows it to intercept almost everything.

I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible.

Government is not using modern technology so much to modernize and improve services as it is to regulate, punish, collect taxes and keep an eye on us. They'd rather rule than serve.

I dream of a Digital India where Government services are easily and efficiently available to citizens on Mobile devices.

At Google, we see and feel the dangers of the government-led Net crackdown.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

I think the fact that within the bitcoin universe an algorithm replaces the functions of the government is actually pretty cool. I am a big fan of bitcoin.