Quotes About Technology

At its core, I don't view Facebook as a social network. I think it could become the driver's license of the Internet. And beyond that, it can become the pipes and the plumbing upon what most of the Internet is built. I think it's very well positioned.

Galvanized plumbing was used years ago. Now we use copper.

Most thermostats are built by plumbing companies. But you really need to understand how to build a phone to make them better.

There are a lot of people that think the Internet is going to bring information and democracy and pluralism in China just by existing.

I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.

What's different is with every successive year, as we launch a thousand plus features and services, we just have the capabilities to make it easier for the rest of the market to use us.

People thought I was crazy thinking about a phone you can just put in your pocket.

Folks can't carry around money in their pocket. They've got to go to an ATM machine, and they've got to pay a few dollars to get their own dollars out of the machine. Who ever thought you'd pay cash to get cash? That's where we've gotten to.

It's really cool having the news in your pocket.

A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket.

I counted how many seconds it takes to get my smartphone out of my pocket, open it up, find the camera app, wait for it to load, and then take a photo. Six to 12 seconds.

The whole 'Electronica' project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side, we have the world in our pocket; on the other, we are spied on constantly.

The internet business model changed dramatically. You would never have an Uber, you would never had an Instagram, if you didn't have a connected computer in your pocket that didn't also have a camera or a GPS.

I really think we have a future ahead of us where chat is obviously a big part of it, but I don't think the context of having that little assistant in your pocket is necessarily the only place where it will be.

I am attached to my Blackberry. Sometimes, when I'm holding it, my other hand goes to my pocket automatically in search of it.

There's more GPS in the phone in your pocket than on most of our 21st century airliners - that's frightening.

Having a cellphone in your pocket, you can get anything you want anytime you want it. Right then and there, boom, you have it.

People are carrying around smartphones. They have a video capture device in their pockets twenty-four/seven.

It's amazing what these computers we carry around in our pockets can do. And if anyone wants to, they can know what we're doing.

I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I type up the poem on a Macintosh G3 and then send it out the door.

I'm all for poetry catching up with technology, and just as there are iTunes, I think we should have iPoems. I mean, people should be able to walk around with their earbuds in and listening to poems on their iPod.

When you put a poem on a Kindle, the lines are broken in order to fit on the screen. And so instead of being the poet's decision, it becomes the device's decision.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

I didn't want my genome to be sequenced by any of the companies that were out there doing the partial sequences just from the point of view of commercialisation.