Quotes About Technology

AIR grew out of our early thinking about rich Internet applications around 2001. We started to see web developers pushing the boundaries of what could be done inside the browser and taking advantage of Flash in ways that we hadn't expected.

I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.

Keep in mind, the web existed for almost a decade before social networks became pervasive. Even though the technology was available to make a social network in around 1995, it simply didn't happen until somebody had the idea to do it, do it big, and do it with a certain level of quality a decade later.

This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named.

I think what we should have done is integrate the web site with the magazine much earlier in the process.

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

I think anyone who uses the web is smart and will profit.

You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.

Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.

The Internet has improved a lot in the last few years, but still, you wouldn't want to depend on Web sources for historical analysis. There's just something hard to beat about a book.

The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity.

Using the HTTP protocol, computer scientists around the world began making the Internet easier to navigate by inventing point-and-click browsers. One browser in particular, called Mosaic, created in 1993 at the University of Illinois, would help popularize the Web, and therefore the Net, as no software tool had yet done.

If you can use a Web browser, you can use Skype.

I don't necessarily think anything on a Web site can have a result.

If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.

I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print.

The web continues to be a source of important photographs you see nowhere else.

People can put their best poems straight onto the web.

The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.

Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

People tend to think of the web as a way to get information or perhaps as a place to carry out e-commerce. But really, the web is about accessing applications.

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.

You can be in Ohio and shoot your own web series, if you want. If this had been around when I was in high school, I can guarantee you that my friends and I would have been shooting our own television shows and putting them online and trying to get as many hits as possible.

Back in the early days like for the Temptations, Supremes and Four Tops, artist development was alive in record companies. Every artist had a moment to develop the record visually. When the web took over and camera phones, it stripped the artists of the power to figure it out. So there's a need to bridge that gap and that's my job.