Quotes About Technology

I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers.

But I do hope that medicine continues to improve and, in 10 years maybe, they'll be able to fix my body better than they did for the poor guys who are crippled up from playing in the NFL in the '60s and the '70s.

When I worked in an office, I was definitely using a computer that should've been long gone over a decade ago but wasn't because it wasn't broken so they weren't going to fix it.

Flash and HTML have co-existed, and they're going to continue to co-exist.

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

We have to find a happy medium in our use of technology. We want things to be efficient, but we have to compartmentalise, too, so that if there is one flaw discovered, the whole thing doesn't topple.

And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.

I have no misgivings about using a flight computer.

After six successful Apollo flights, including two lunar landings, people were getting bored.

We should not confuse having a Flip camera with making a documentary.

A lot of the records you buy, there's nothing you can hold in your hand, it's all 1's and 0's, this digital cloud floating in the ether. but with analog albums, you can hold it in your hand.

Maybe Carnatic music will become more digital, because it is an audio form. But even then, why do people flock to the December season in Madras? Because they want to see the artiste face-to-face.

Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.

Because the Internet is a medium, it doesn't care whether it transmits love or hate. It is what we build and who we are that make it what it is. We can build things that diminish our humanity or build things that bring us to human flourishing.

At GDAX, we want to see new protocols and their tokens flourish.

Digital fluency is about basic skills.

Digital fluency... is literally your ability to do things like banking online, to connect with people, to use a device and the Internet in a very easy way.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

Because it's cheaper and easier to fly than ever before, air travel is becoming democratized.

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.

When I see people who have to fly to a city every day with a laptop and stuff, that's why - I don't think I could manage that.

I don't listen to that many podcasts when I fly.

We all thought we'd have flying cars by now, but we don't.