Quotes About Technology

A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.

I don't believe in privacy. I mean, I like the idea of privacy, but I don't believe that it happens anymore. I think privacy is something, I am afraid, we seem to be waving goodbye to.

That's what records do: represent a compressed, heightened version of the sound. Because of the compression of the tubes and microphones and the wax, it's magic!

E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

The North Star has always been the same, which for us, is about making insanely great products that really change the world in some way - enrich people's lives.

Bitcoin is a way to have programmable scarcity. The blockchain is the data structure that records the transfer of scarce objects.

Bitcoin is mostly about anonymous transactions, and I don't think over time that's a good way to go. I'm a huge believe in digital currency... but doing it on an anonymous basis I think that leads to some abuses, so I'm not involved in Bitcoin.

The blockchain cannot be described just as a revolution. It is a tsunami-like phenomenon, slowly advancing and gradually enveloping everything along its way by the force of its progression.

When I was younger, I'd be walking down the street and suddenly panic because I had a cool idea and no way of getting it down - I'd have to sing it all the way home. Now I can hum it into my phone.

In our age of individualism, we see computers as ways through which we can express our individuality. But the truth is that the computers are really good at spotting the very opposite. The computers can see how similar we are, and they then have the ability to agglomerate us together into groups that have the same behaviours.

As society becomes more and more complex, cheating will in many ways become progressively easier and easier to do and harder to police or even understand.

When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them in many ways, and, if it were nothing else, they afford a pleasing sight.

As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways.

The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That's fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.

There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes.

Automation will significantly change many people's lives in ways that may be painful and enduring.

The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises.

I believe in human-centered AI to benefit people in positive and benevolent ways.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

We can create new ways to create clean water.

We should choose simple ways of living... to live in harmony with nature by adopting simpler technologies and using natural resources innovatively.

I think, in general, medicine in the 21st century will switch from healing the sick to upgrading the healthy... If you find ways to repair the memory damaged by Alzheimer's disease or dementia and so forth, it is very likely that the same methods could be used to upgrade the memory of completely healthy people.