Quotes About Technology

Our goal is simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

1980's: not a time period but a state of mind.

Video games lend themselves completely to 3-D.

Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?

So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.

Building Oracle is like doing math puzzles as a kid.

I think I am very goal oriented. I'd like to win the America's cup. I'd like Oracle to be the No 1 software company in the world. I still think it is possible to beat Microsoft.

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?

Windows 95 is what Rube Goldberg would have designed if he'd studied cartooning at M.I.T.

Personally, I'm waiting for caller IQ.

There are some important differences between me and Tony Stark, like I have five kids, so I spend more time going to Disneyland than parties.

Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

We might miss the days of being unreachable.

There is one potential problem with automation: that it will be accompanied by complacency and ignorance.

How will machines know what we value if we don't know ourselves?

That's the fashion. Fast as the speed of light, they say. Ha! It's got no soul, sir, no heart.

Innovations shapes the future and our willingness to explore it makes our existence meaningful.

The techniques of behavioral control make even the hydrogen bomb look like a child's toy.

IBM acquired a great deal of modern manufacturing and sales capacity—for the wrong products.

The parts of humanity that use to be civil are dead and gone. The only thing left is a technological, emotionless, colorless, dead version of reality we live in every day.

Buying something from Apple? Add it to your shopping card but don't buy it yet. In 7-10 days they'll give you a 15-20% discount on that item.

As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which everything can be accessed from the fourth dimension with a few clicks or terse audibles.

There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.