Quotes About Technology

I'm projecting somewhere between 100 million and 200 million computers on the Net by the end of December 2000, and about 300 million users by that same time.

I'm a really bad liar. My mom finds out every time, especially now that she's got Facebook.

We try to 'self-medicate' ourselves against boredom with mobile phones in any given moment of free time.

Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.'

Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.

I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.

So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on.

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Googles traffic congestion maps.

I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there.

I really don't spend any time on the Internet, so I guess I live a little under a rock in that respect.

Computers are getting smarter all the time. Scientists tell us that soon they will be able to talk to us. (And by 'they', I mean 'computers'. I doubt scientists will ever be able to talk to us.)

I think that we have created a new kind of person in a way. We have created a child who will be so exposed to the media that he will be lost to his parents by the time he is 12.

I didn't want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At the time, I remember thinking, "I am making a Faust album." That didn't translate.

The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all).

My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.

I didn't know what Facebook was, and now that I do know what it is, I have to say, it sounds like a huge waste of time.

Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.

Today's stock market actually hates technology, as shown by all-time low price/earnings ratios for major public technology companies

Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time.

When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.

I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.