Quotes About Technology

It is the framework which changes with each new technology and not just the picture within the frame.

I like making things. I don't like getting my picture taken.

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture.

I see TV as a picture medium rather than a narrative medium.

People do that on Facebook and it's the dumbest thing in the world. I don't care what your dinner looks like. Stop cluttering up the Internet with pictures of your dinner.

Digital technology is the same revolution as adding sound to pictures and the same revolution as adding color to pictures. Nothing more and nothing less.

I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.

When I was a kid, back in the days before cell phone cameras, I had disposable cameras I took a lot of pictures with and I just remember something always went wrong.

Digital photography and Photoshop have made it very easy for people to take pictures. It's a medium that allows a lot of mediocre stuff to get through.

I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.

I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.

I used to make fun of my friends who had BlackBerries. And I know that the expression CrackBerry has been going around, but now I fully understand it. I'm actually addicted to a piece of machinery, and that's really embarrassing.

Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.

Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise.

Whenever anything bubbles up, I have to put it down. I have bits and pieces all over my hard drive.

We're kind of a guinea pig generation.

The only difference between a pigeon and the American farmer today is that a pigeon can still make a deposit on a John Deere.

We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

We've gone from, in the '50s and '60s, being very optimistic about the future, where the future is all spaceships and The Jetsons and flying cars, to where we were just sure the future was going to be a massive pile of rubble.