Quotes About Progress

I have on my wall right now a front page of the 'Journal' from January 1991, when I co-wrote a front-page story about Iraq firing missiles at Israel. By October, I was writing about tech products.

Tech stuff, I will always do. They've been good to me.

The future of the world is in the palm of the tech community.

I am committed to ensuring San Francisco remains a center for tech and the innovation capital of the world.

The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

There've been lots of positive changes in the city since I worked at Salford Tech in the seventies, and I'm pleased to be known as Salford's Bard and to have helped put it on the map.

Most buildings, whether they're Gothic cathedrals or Romanesque ones, were high tech for their time.

Although the tech industry is very open to change, many people still have a closed-off mentality where, in the interest of protecting their ideas, they keep them hidden in dark caves.

I'm ambivalent about tech.

We're excited about how tech can be used to get tech out of the way.

I knew tech was going to be increasingly important in my lifetime, so I focused on it early.

Tech can be something that can be great for us. We don't need to fear it.

The tech industry should make bold commitments to address pressing societal issues.

Tech never comes back the same.

One of the consistent characteristics of the tech industry is an endless labelling of technology and approaches.

If someone is not tech savvy, I have no time for them. I've always been a big believer in looking forward.

I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.

Technology does more than delight, entertain and make our lives more convenient, it's also an agent for social good. That is why it's important for tech startups to stay informed about, and make a mark on, policies that impact them.

On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.

Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

We are the only country with an operating rover on Mars. We are an amazing country on tech.

The tech and tech media world are meritocracies. To fall back to race as the reason why people don't break out in our wonderful oasis of openness is to do a massive injustice to what we've fought so hard to create.

You don't need to be an engineer or a tech person to benefit from technology. You can hire them.

It's relatively easy to set up a tech company, join an accelerator, and progress down a pathway towards success. It's more complex to do that with food.