Quotes About Technology

I think people have an appetite for VR at $200, $300, $400. It's something so new and improves so quickly, people do have an appetite to buy that. If people are getting a new VR headset every two or three years that's incredibly improved, you want to go do that.

Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

When I first got started in the late '70s, early '80s, and first was thinking about the interactive world, I believed so fervently that it was the next big thing, I thought it would happen quickly.

I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.

School districts in the US don't adopt technology very quickly.

I'd like something that peels potatoes really quickly - that would be wonderful.

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

I've been collecting synths since the late '80s. They weren't very fashionable then, so you could pick up pretty cool stuff for a few hundred quid.

We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

If you looked at the sound pattern of an old-fashioned record, it would be very spikey. But nowadays, there's no spikes - everything looks like a brick, so the quiet bits become louder. It's actually damaging because it's like listening to a drill.

Nintendo is applying the benefits of advanced technology, but we're using it to make our machines more power-efficient, quieter, and faster to start.

The truth is I don't really like the world of plastic money: the great chip-and-pin double act of modern payment. I prefer cash. I don't like the idea of some distant clerk nodding each time I make a card purchase and quietly adding to my 'consumer profile.' I'm anti all cards.

The love in the old days had a certain grace, quintessential feel to it. Now everybody is busy in their phones.

Science fiction is not quirky anymore; we live in a futuristic world now.

When the music business failed to embrace the Internet, I thought it was game, set and match for the industry, and I quit.

Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.

I've been all over meeting government ministers and such in Caribbean financial circles. There's a small blockchain movement in the Caribbean. They've been quite a bit more advanced than you might've imagined.

I used to play 'Halo 2' and 'Ghost Recon' online quite a bit.

I read blogs quite a bit.

I'm not a massive fan of 3D. I've seen some good 3D, and I've seen quite a lot of bad 3D. I think if a film is created for the shock effect of 3D, then it's a certain type of film that I'm not massively bothered about.

I'm not a big fan of file sharing. I mean, I've done it quite a lot for other people, where they send me the file, I do it and send them back. You don't get any back-and-forth and exchange and feedback when you do it that way.

Quite frankly, I don't know how I could live without my Blendtec.

I have been a member of the Microsoft-bashing society for quite some time.