Quotes About Technology

Bitcoin is inherently international, and one of its great promises is it enables cross-border payments in a more efficient way.

The Internet promises to open new channels for worker-firm communications. What are the consequences of this opening?

A lot of what I see in blockchain promises to get us as an industry from A to Z. As an investor and entrepreneur, I am constantly on the lookout for how we get from A to B.

The most promising privacy thing is stupid phones. I'm dumping all my smart phones.

Harnessing new communications technology offers one promising way to make public participation easier and more effective.

Should Ford succeed in equipping all its cars with information that gets communicated back to its servers, it will become a 'big data' company, a beyond-vehicles opportunity that is as promising as it is murky.

Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite.

It pleases me no end to have had some small impact on people's lives because these phones do make people's lives better. They promote productivity, they make people more comfortable, they make them feel safe and all of those things.

Of course for many years directors have had to go on the road with their movies and promote them and I've done that since the beginning. So that's not new but the forms of it are different such as with the internet.

Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.

One of the reasons why we were so successful in integrating with Facebook was because we saw people using Facebook to promote their event and link back to Eventbrite before Facebook Connect and before the event's API was even available.

What I love about the 'State of Syn' concept is that, while it's exploring science fiction, it's also trying to explore the future of film and television and the Internet, just in the nature of how they put it together and promote it and add apps and all that kind of stuff.

I promoted Hyderabad to the world by saying that there was privacy in India and their data will be sage. Data is wealth.

Wherever technology's going, we're cool with it. We're definitely promoters of kids trying out new stuff.

The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

Kids are prone to be on their phone and their iPads, prone to sharing things and making things. Instead of trying to divorce education from that, let's lean into that.

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

Behind the keyboard, it doesn't matter that physically my body doesn't work properly.

I like to think that the Internet and file sharing, if utilized properly and embraced, and I emphasize properly, is a high-powered marketing design.

Film, if properly cared for, will last almost 100 years, but digital will not.

When the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.

To understand the future properly, it's crucial that we listen to geologists as often as we do computer scientists.