Quotes About Technology

I think technology gives the illusion that you are connecting with people, social media particularly.

We continue to have this illusion that things outside of us aren't driving what we think and believe, when in fact so much of what we spend our attention on is driven by decisions of thousands of engineers and product designers.

We're living in this world where we have so much media all the time. We have access to imagery all the time.

If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet.

I consider the pixel data in images and video to be the dark matter of the Internet.

People see images now more than they see movies.

I can tell you what images are in your head. I can tell what music you're thinking of. I can tell if you're listening to me or not. That's possible with an MRI now.

We live in a media saturated world. I'm sure artists of the past would have dealt with it in just the same way. If you're in the business of communication and images, then if you ignore the media-sphere you're just cutting off your own foot. It's just daft.

It was just so elaborate and so luxurious. We had every gadget imaginable. You know, I had the little gun that came out, and I had the little gun in the heel of the shoe.

I imagine a world in which AI is going to make us work more productively, live longer, and have cleaner energy.

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

Data is something we create, but it's also something we imagine.

Social gaming is not something Zuckerberg could have imagined back when he was creating Facebook in his Harvard dorm room in 2004. The change began in May 2007, when Facebook announced it would let outside developers create applications that run on top of Facebook.

Digital imaging is as much about chemistry as it is about semiconductors.

I've always been very interested in the question of how computation can fundamentally advance the things that we can see. This led me to have a fascination with medical imaging, especially things like MRI and scanning, and eventually computer graphics.

Writing in the electronic world, you imagine a sound, and then you have to go and find it. It's not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. That's easy!

We have this imbalance where the people who are making algorithms aren't talking to the people who are using them. And the people who are using them aren't talking to the people who are having decisions made about their lives by them.

I'm a bit of a digital imbecile.

I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.

Before its immature ways caught up with it, Uber got bigger and went further than Webvan ever did. But it bleeds money, courts controversy, and makes enemies like no company Ive ever seen.

The homeless person or the schizophrenic person talking to themselves are disassociated from their immediate environment. They're off in a fantasy, and it's very similar to what happens on a cell phone.

If I had an idea for a genius app, don't you think I would be getting it made immediately?

Businesses are not just local or even national anymore - good ideas are immediately global. So the market opportunities are much larger than we've ever imagined or seen.

The fact you can manipulate people because you can hack them and learn everything about their personal lives - that's an immense amount of power.