Quotes About Technology

Facebook takes it as a core truth that sharing and connecting is a force that will improve the world.

I wonder which is ultimately more creepy: shopping at Amazon or using Facebook?

It's hard to think that Mark Zuckerberg is actually impoverishing anyone by getting rich with Facebook. But driverless cars are another matter entirely.

I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them.

I know a lot of games have been going to the facial capture. And movies like 'TinTin' are using it, as well.

Although Patterson Beams was not my first plug-in, I knew from the beginning that I would write it, because the single biggest time consuming factor for me was editing each beam manually.

I'm not really part of the Internet world, my age a factor in that and a lack of interest in sharing with so many, so little, so much, so often.

By the time I was leaving school, there were no factories. There was no industry.

The factory is the machine that builds the machine.

We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.

Everything is being run by computers. Everything is reliant on these computers working. We have become very reliant on Internet, on basic things like electricity, obviously, on computers working. And this really is something which creates completely new problems for us. We must have some way of continuing to work even if computers fail.

MH370 is a Boeing 777 aircraft. It was built and equipped by Boeing. All the communications and GPS equipment must have been installed by Boeing. If they failed or have been disabled, Boeing must know how it can be done.

When Netscape failed, it didn't mean the Internet was over.

SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing.

Even today, a lot of the CGI you see in movies is so clean and crisp that it just looks fake. It's weird: the more advanced they get, the faker it looks.

When my kid was five and playing with my camcorder. I don't like it. It makes it look fake looking, too much HD. I don't need to see your pores on TV, like why do I see your pores right here? That's not cool.

American sci-fi has fallen into the doldrums in part because of the anti-science sentiment that's so prevalent in our culture lately.

If you get the product and technology right, then the rest usually falls into place.

When you think about how everything else works in the digital age and the way that money does, money really falls short.

My own work falls into a subset of AI that is about building artificial emotional intelligence, or Emotion AI for short.

With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side.

In F1, we see teams spending ridiculous amounts of money. That's the sport.

Customer service teams at many companies have already embraced social media, often out of necessity.

The era during which only governments could put hardware on the Moon is coming to an end. There are 26 private teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize - to be awarded for sending a robotic spacecraft to this nearby world that can roam at least 500 meters, and send back data such as a photo.