Quotes About Technology

Peter Jackson is a real big hero of mine because he had the nerve to make 'The Hobbit' at 48 frames per second.

'Mr. Robot' is more directly about technology, and 'Homecoming' deals more with the pharmaceutical industry, but I think they're all part and parcel of this growing sense that things are happening behind the scenes at our expense, and we're not aware of it.

Analytical pharmacology has got an important and exciting future.

Phase contrast was not discovered while working with a microscope, but in a different part of optics.

I grew up using maps and having a sense of direction, and now I have a phone. I used to try to remember numbers, and now I... can just call them up instantly. And that's great. But what's happening right now is that we're in a phase of human evolution where we're merging with machines.

For a while, I have had this theory that we, as a society, are coming to the end of the mass production, industrial phase of the human race.

Even though you can't get along without your smartphone, there are not many essential services on your smartphone. They're mostly convenience; you could live without it. Essential means you die without it. A gadget that warns you're about to have a heart attack - that's essential. We're about to go into that phase with smartphones.

I'm a phenomenal fan of Elon Musk. I think he's the greatest. He's a disrupter, and I think he is a great marketer. And I love him.

The amazing thing about IBM is that it's a company where I have had 10 different careers - local jobs, global jobs, technology jobs, industry jobs, financial services, insurance, start-ups, big scale. The network of talent around you is phenomenal.

You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.

These megaleaks... They're an important phenomenon, and they're only going to increase.

Games have become a social phenomenon.

I wanted to be like Phil Donahue for the internet generation.

I'm a huge fan of Philip K. Dick.

I used to read a lot of Isaac Asimov and Philip Dick and 'Inland Empire's' one of the earlier books I read!

The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical.

In addition to their 'do no evil' motto, Googlers have always been guided by another, much less explicit philosophy: 'computational arrogance.'

All things can be done by every company in the world. Apple builds a phone, and so does Samsung. It's not about being different but about being better at what you do.

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

I have the best habits in the world, and I cannot keep my phone secure.

You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.

I do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.

Would I buy a cell phone for my 12-year-old?... No. I should have closer control over my child than that. He really shouldn't be in places where he needs to contact me by cell.

The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!