Quotes About Technology

My boyfriend and I don't get to live in the same city all the time, and the fact that I can text him or call him or even Skype with him is so wonderful.

Television reflects our society in a more accurate way than at any time in the past.

In fact, one reason I am interested in developing things in virtual reality is that they're so fascinating. I can come up with problems that are harder than warfare to take up people's time.

Now at my age I understand how sad it must have been for some directors or actors at the time the talkies began. Because, really, a whole continent disappeared.

There's no down time any more.

We need to protect the same amount of cognitive liberty in an age where you can invade people's thoughts without physically intruding into their homes than you did at the time of the framing.

Everyone traveling alone is just on their phones the whole time.

Everybody sounds stoned, because they're e-mailing people the whole time they're talking to you.

Yeah it feels a bit more tangible, I suppose, even though you're in a green box for part of the time.

Everywhere you go, people have recorded or captured events in real time on their mobile phones. It becomes one of the first questions you ask when you go in to investigate something.

Because of the time we're in, it's so easy to just blend all of it together and it's kind of like you're listening to everything all at once.

I spend way too much time on Facebook and MySpace to feel too uncomfortable at this. I like to think of the Internet as an effective way to waste time and time.

Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad.

I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.

I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television.

If time means nothing to you, then surf the Web.

I think we're a long ways from really putting colonies of people out there who would live their whole lives out there in space. I don't see that happening for quite some time.

I helped develop Disney's) special effects department at that time, which helped very much when we worked on "20000 Leagues under the Sea"

I had the pleasure of listening to Rickie Lee Jones' Flying Cowboys album on audio cassette, which had just come out at that time because I am an elderly man.

Time marches on and I don't care how people watch my movies as long as they see them. I don't care if they're on their phone.

The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.

Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant.

[Buckminster] Fuller said that everything at the time was basically a horse and buggy in the form of an automobile and it had that boxiness and basically aeronautics hadn't been invented.

Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.