Quotes About Technology

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts.

I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.

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

Our contemporary forms of reading threaten to reduce that amplification. Aside from the fact that overusing digital technologies eventually makes us less mentally agile and more forgetful (as research increasingly shows), the kind of segmented, bite-sized reading we do on the internet fragments and constricts the 'space to think', instead of expanding it; in a sense, it reduces or even rubbishes our mental experience. Our minds

El amor apasionado implica dolor y ese dolor no nos debe atormentar. En palabras de Franzen, "el dolor duele pero no mata. Si uno considera la alternativa —un sueño anestesiado de autosuficiencia que la tecnología ampara—, el dolor surge como producto e indicador natural del estar vivo en un mundo que resiste. Vivir una vida entera sin dolor es no haber vivido".

it's true what they sang in that song, that video killed the radio star-how in the long war between the senses, the eye, in its unstoppable scorched-earth campaign, has mobilized a kind of technologi­cal Gresham's Law against radio, and has almost entirely sidelined it;

The e-mail lands like a mortar in the Hum suzerainty.

I like to imagine the iPod as the soundtrack to people's lives. It makes ordinary life a bit more like the movies.

So it's really for us about new products, because we have released a lot of new products.

I work on the team formulating products that haven't been released.

It's been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that'll be released in December that's gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that's a fact then it's really interesting to own your own product - with all the potential methods of downloading.

I put together an iPhone app called TrimIt and released that in July 2011. About a month later, the private fund of the Hong Kong billionaire Li-Kashing cold emailed me and expressed an interest to invest, but they didn't realize I was 15. They thought it was a U.K. company with a team.

It feels as if ever since the iPhone was released, the Macintosh computer has become just another leverage point in this other operating system's marketing plan.

Releasing albums is a thing of the past.

After releasing Mono 1.0, we started work on a new edition of Mono that will be released later in the year.

People tend to associate Qualcomm with the chip - and they should: We're an excellent chip company - but I think we have a larger role in the ecosystem of cellular that I think people are not aware of. And our relevance to more consumer electronics - and, I would say, industries - is actually just increasing.

Science fiction can be very relevant, could be good literature.

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts.

I refused to do a lot on mobile Internet until around 2009. But because we didn't start early, it took us some time to figure out what's the important thing, what's the most relevant thing for Baidu.

Nations are becoming less relevant in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected. The connections that matter most are again becoming more personal.

Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we spend that money on providing health clinics and safe water? Aren't these things more relevant? I have no intention of downplaying the importance of the Internet, but its impact has been exaggerated.

There are probably industries where gender is more of an issue, but our industry is not one where I think that's relevant.

I think that we're on a path that Apple was determined to be on since the '70s, which was to try and make technology relevant and personal.

Workday is constantly looking into the future and, you know, building applications that stay modern and relevant.