Quotes About Technology

Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it's my form of political activism, but it's also a huge business opportunity.

The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.

I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.

I am not a politician. I am an engineer who has spent most of his career working in factories that manufacture the world's most advanced devices.

When politicians say, 'Oh, parents should supervise their kids' Internet use,' it drives me crazy.

We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error.

Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.

The use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.

We're as clever as we think we are, but we'll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We're at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time - there's no reason why we can't do it in other endeavors.

More than ever, the world needs good engineers. However, the pool of talent is shrinking not growing.

When you interview at Google, they don't tell you what the job is. You get hired for a pool and the reason they do it that way is they don't want outsiders learning their secrets in the interview process.

I would say the larger the pool you have to select from, the more likely you are to find the most compatible person for you if you have the right algorithms working on your behalf.

With Halcyon's technology, the pool of genetic information will grow by orders of magnitude in the course of months, offering the first real chance at cures for cancer and other previously intractable diseases.

Rules designed for the Ma Bell monopoly during the era of rotary phones were a poor fit for the greatest innovation of our time, the Internet.

Historically, industrial revolutions haven't been kind to poor people. Despite the potential benefits technology can offer, the immediate impact on the lowest-paid members of society has often been negative.

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

If we as a society do not understand 'the cloud,' in all its aspects - what data it holds, how it works, what the bargains are we make as we engage with it, we'll all be the poorer for it, I believe.

We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince.

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done.

If you've never been fit for clubs, your game could seriously be suffering. People tend to stick to out-of-date, poorly fit clubs because they either don't see the benefit of a fitting or are intimidated by the process.

Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.

The most important single fact about pop music in the Nineties, is the number of hours made commercially available increased by an estimated factor of ten.