Quotes About Technology

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

Technology is like water it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion other computers, it just makes sense that a tremendous share of the resources you want to use - not only text or media but processing power too - will be located remotely.

Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years.

One of the advantages of moving quickly is if you do something wrong you can change it. What technologies tend to do is they tend to make a lot of mistakes... but then we go back and aggressively attack those mistakes - and fix them. And you usually recover pretty quickly.

And once you get instantaneous communication with everybody, you have economic activity that's far more advanced, far more liquid, far more distributed than ever before.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

After all, the better the developers you have, the better the product you build.

The more developers you have, the more products you can build. Essentially, recruiting is the engine that drives distribution

build a new technology model (on-demand, or delivered over the Internet—now called cloud computing), a new sales model (subscription based), and a new philanthropic model (integrated into the corporation).

Our current battle: we have to save the customer from Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP.

Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.

All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.

Her iPhone, like Skylar, was dead.

Chiar aÅŸa ce? Ai mai luat autobuzul sau metroul, ai mai mers pe str?zi? Oamenii petrec mai mult timp cu ochii în telefoanele lor decât uitându-se la ce se întâmpl? în jur. În zilele noastre, singurul mijloc de a atrage atenÅ£ia este s? zâmbeÅŸti pe un ecran de smartphone, nu-i vina mea, dar aÅŸa stau lucrurile.

Du känner till det där med yin och yang, och krona eller klave? Du kommer snart att fatta vart jag vill komma. Vet du att de två pajasarna som uppfann föregångaren till mobilen du har i handen började i ett garage där de använde sig av defekta komponenter från skroten på en stor flygindustri? Var de lumpsamlare eller genier?

The next evolutionary step is into the screen.

I think the pastime of chatting or candidly talking to people about anything or nothing is fading away. People don't even want to leave voice messages anymore, let alone talk. We keep a distance from each other because we can. It's odd and sad. Because just by talking to each other, we can put all the aspects and challenges and joys and horrors of life into perspective, even if that is not what we are talking about. It's relieving, comforting, and enjoyable.

Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future.

it was produced on an industrial scale, turned on potter's wheels and fired in high-temperature kilns,

The combination of fast-moving ships with sails may have been the crucial development

Internet entrepreneurs are using technology at every level of their company - from a one-person agency to a small firm, the newest technological advances are interwoven throughout every aspect of Internet-based businesses.

More than anyplace else, California seems determined to prove that the Second Law of Thermodynamics is a lie.

One has to look out for engineers—they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb.