Quotes About Technology

As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.

We are on our way to blockchains as the fabric of society - the system for what we own (assets), who we are (identity), how we make decisions (governance), and more in an increasingly digital world. It's going to be a wild ride.

One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.

Science fiction's power, if it has any, is that it gives us reasonable extrapolations, not wild and woolly stuff.

There is a science to managing high tech businesses, and it needs to be respected. One of them is that in technology businesses, leadership is temporary. It's constantly recycling. So the asset has limited lifetime.

Job displacement is so huge, I'm tempted to not talk about anything other than that.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

New technologies always reshape society, and it's always tempting to worry about them solely for this reason.

The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence.

I try not to bring my phone to the gym - it's too tempting to play with it.

When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.

I believe it was probably less than ten minutes that went by from the invention of photography to the point where people realized that they could lie with photographs.

The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs.

I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

With the rise of the Internet, fashion did become part of the global entertainment industry in the last ten years, and will follow the digital evolution of the music or film industry.

Ten years ago U.S. defence investment represented almost half of all defence expenditure in the whole alliance. Today it is 75%. This increasing economic gap may also lead to an increasing technology gap which will almost hamper the inter-operability between our forces.

I started in comics in 2005, ten years ago, and at that time, I didn't have a cell phone. I don't even think I had a computer myself, you know. And just in those ten years, how much technology has changed.

The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.

The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.

Women tend to lag in adopting new technology quickly.

People tend to look at processing power as how to gauge a piece of hardware is powerful for us.

Tech companies tend to do tech best.

I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things.