Quotes About Technology

Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.

All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound. Hypersonic sound is exactly the opposite: it's 100 percent based on non-linearity.

But I think we're going to have people who work from home a couple of days a week, three days a week, four days a week. And I'm perfectly comfortable with all that.

For film at the beginning of the 20th century, they didn't even know what editing was yet. Actors didn't know how to perform in front of the camera. There wasn't sound.

In '83, not only was there no such thing as performance motion capture technology, there was no such thing as digital animation. This was the analog era.

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away.

I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotion, as many authors do.

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

Every city in America and in the world should be trying to grow its technology ecosystem, period. Especially if they care about their children and their grandchildren.

AMD's history is we've always had great technology. We've had periods of time where we've done really, really well, and we've had periods of time where we've done not so well. But most of the time we've done well, it's because we've had a leadership product or some technology where we were out in front before anybody else.

Mobile technology makes us ever more mobile, increasingly permitting not just easier movement around a home base but permanent international relocation.

There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.

Something in us is telling us we're moving too fast, at a pace dictated by machines rather than by anything human, and that unless we take conscious measures, we'll permanently be out of breath.

I think that we need to take care of the Internet itself right now, in order to permit it to be an important part of everyday life in the future as well.

Digital technology can be a great resource, but it can also be a pernicious one, so it's how we, as a society, really study the cognitive impact of that and use evidence-based research to go after the technology designers to do a better job of dealing with the problems of memory and attention we are seeing.

There are a lot of old-fashioned things we perpetuate that come from a world that's not digital, not interactive, and not online, and we try to retain it.

In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.

The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it exists - the second greatest is that it persists.

In the digital world, we have forgotten the meaning of 'persistence of vision'. Art is something we have to hold on to.

I'm very persistent; I know the Internet very well, because I grew up on the Internet. I had Internet when there was just dial-up, and the Internet was my social outlet.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.