Quotes About Technology

What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp.

The first step in securing our cyber future is education, and that means everything from educating individuals to companies to the next generation of IT professionals.

Oh there are lots of doctors and medical professionals out there who buy my devices at whole sale price.

I use this app that keeps my handicap. As professionals, we don't keep handicaps. But as a kid, I was so excited about seeing how low I could get my handicap. So that's one app I really do use a lot.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

I co-founded Affectiva with Professor Rosalind W. Picard when we spun out of MIT Media Lab in 2009. I acted as Chief Technology and Science Officer for several years until becoming CEO mid-2016, one of a handful of female CEOs in the AI space.

I don't see kids with Palm Pilots. They are not common on college campuses, except among professors. Gen Xers don't need them. They are a phenomenon of the 50-something who can't remember if his broker's number ends in 1137 or 3317.

Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.

I'm used to everything digital - the pictures, the avatars of the person, the profiles - so when I get to see someone in the flesh, it's really nice.

Everybody is going to want to look at their genetics. You're going to want to get a genetic profile.

I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.

Empathy is why entertainment is always growing, and for millennials, everyone is judging them and trying to grab their attention by insulting them. We're living in a time where everyone has 25 profiles, and they're having 25 conversations.

A hacker doesn't deliberately destroy data or profit from his activities.

In the U.S., PC-makers have no incentive to lower prices because it kills their profit margins. They keep adding new features like high-end retina displays and faster processors to justify their high prices.

How do we take the bad out of fracking? How do you contain the water? How do we make a profit out of that? Get there early.

Cybercriminals are usually driven by profit, while cyberterrorists are driven by ideology.

When designing algorithms as a business owner, your incentive is your profit, something for your business, it's not an incentive to maximise something for the individual.

When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.

The coming changes in technology will be as profound as the creation of the Internet.

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way.

In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.

I say this as an engineer: We are profoundly bad at asking ourselves how the things we build could be misused.

But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.