Quotes About Technology

When something like personal genomics or synthetic biology suddenly appears - it seems to suddenly appear - we might have been working on it for 30 years, but it seems to come out of nowhere. Then you need strategies for engaging a lot of people and thinking about where it will be going in the next few months or few years.

In chemicals, Synthetic Genomics is one of my real loves.

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

The main idea with Brave is that you don't have to think about Bitcoin; you just have this frictionless payment system.

Why would you need to expand beyond the solar system if you already have access to all the information you need, and you've essentially insulated yourself against a planetary apocalypse? Maybe that's enough.

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

I'm big into the PlayStation 2. From what I've heard, the Xbox is the better system, but I can't get used to that controller.

Napster hijacked our music without asking. They never sought our permission. Our catalog of music simply became available as free downloads on the Napster system.

The number of queries in a large dataset is exponential, and it's growing exponentially. No matter how fast you make your system, you're never going to be able to get all that information.

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.

Linux has never been about quality. There are so many parts of the system that are just these cheap little hacks, and it happens to run.

Just as computer science is missing from our school system, so is science fiction.

Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

The computer can do a much better job than the human eye, as it is much more systematic in analysing tissues.

I started on the use of the Internet for scientific communication. Our research group was one of the very first to make really systematic use of it as a way of managing research projects.

Cranking the Auto-Tune is so easy to do that there's almost no systemic resistance to trying it. So when someone's stuck for an idea, that's what they do. I mean, to the extent that it's been embraced by an entire idiom of club music and culture.

If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.

The real conflict, if any exists, is between two industrial systems.

We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.

Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.

It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.

The invisible pieces of code that form the gears and cogs of the modern machine age, algorithms have given the world everything from social media feeds to search engines and satellite navigation to music recommendation systems.