Quotes About Technology

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit" seems like the motto not just for Chopra but for the entire conference. Benioff and his philanthropy, the dry ice and fog machines, the concerts and comedians: None of this has anything to do with software or technology. It's a show, created to entertain people, boost sales, and fluff a stock price.

There's an adage in Silicon Valley that people who use online services are not the customers. We're the product. As

You tell them that you're doing this not because you want to save money on office space but because this is how their generation likes to work.

You don't get rewarded for creating great technology, not anymore," says a friend of mine who has worked in tech since the 1980s, a former investment banker who now advises start-ups. "It's all about the business model. The market pays you to have a company that scales quickly. It's all about getting big fast. Don't be profitable, just get big.

At Newsweek, I get paid to meet amazing people and write about subjects that fascinate me: fusion energy, education reform, supercomputing, artificial intelligence, robotics, the rising competitiveness of China, the global threat of state-sponsored hacking.

a warning to young entrepreneurs: take money from a venture capitalist, and you'll end up working for some smug, sarcastic, know-it-all prick like this guy, who will constantly tell you that you're not working hard enough while he spends his days getting into arguments on Twitter.

Have you transformed the way you innovate?" was Benioff's big line at the 2012 Dreamforce show. Note that you can switch the two buzzwords in the sentence and it still sounds good and still means nothing.

One day, Aaron Levie, the twenty-six-year-old CEO of Box, a well-funded new tech company, tells me it's really important to learn from what happened in the 1990s—which is why he has read a bunch of books about that era.

He was hooked to machines with a nursing staff at his beck and call.

I have an almost religious zeal — not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

It should be clear to our political leaders that a new energy strategy could be the next technological revolution America could lead. But we are ceding the momentum to others such as China. Our planet and our national prosperity are already suffering from the decline in our leadership.

Sometimes it pays to stay in bed in Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debuging Monday's code.

now that all writers everywhere are contractually obligated to blog and tweet all day long, who has time to work on a book?

An artist on Esperance had once said to me, "Having sex or a domestic quarrel with the house monitors on is like undressing in front of a dog or cat ... it gives you pause the first time, and then you forget about it.

NoSQL databases emerged from unmet needs.

The other reason mathematicians were blind to chaos was that they had no computers, and were left with the kind of vague description that Poincaré gave, which other mathematicians failed to understand.

The space shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills.

I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.

Yet somehow living as a 1912 woman or as an 1860 woman involved being on Facebook a lot.

If cyberspace can screw with you, it will.

Then came the Industrial Revolution, first in Britain, then in Western Europe and North America. Men and women flocked from the countryside to towns to satisfy factories' growing demand for labor.