Quotes About Technology

We have barely emerged from centuries of barbarism. It's not a surprise that there are shocking inequities in this world. It is hard work to climb down out of the trees and walk upright,and build a viable global civilization when you start with technology that is made of rocks and sticks and fur. This is a project, and progress is dificult.

I take seriously the idea that we're in a simulation. I have no idea whether or not it's true, but if it is, if we are in a simulation, it's not that nothing is real, not that there are no tables and chairs and trees. Rather, it's that they exist in a different form from what we first thought. There's a level of computation underneath what we take to be physical reality.

The Bible, it seems certain, was the work of sand-strewn men and women who thought the earth was flat and for whom a wheelbarrow would have been a breathtaking example of emerging technology.

People are very protective of their cell phones, how it's used, where it's used and how much it costs. It has become a very personal issue for a whole lot of people in this country.

I dream of a Digital India where knowledge is strength - and empowers the People.

The youth of India has the strength to move the entire World with a click of a mouse, we have generated that ability!

I cannot stress enough that the answer to a lot of your life's questions is often in someone else's face. Try putting your iPhones down every once in a while and look at people's faces.

One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.

When you beat up someone physically, you get excercise and stress relief; when you assault him verbally on the Internet, you just harm yourself.

A lot of my films have dealt with the dark side of technology and stress that you have to examine the ramifications of progress.

I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

Today, it is clear that Internet organizing is vital to our future success.

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.

I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of boredom that only the privileged classes in earlier civilizations have ever fathomed.

In computer science, we stand on each other's feet.

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.

It seems certain that much of the success of Unix follows from the readability, modifiability, and portability of its software.

There may be no greater tribute to Steve Jobs' success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.