Quotes about tech
technology lazy incompetent
Are you lazy or just incompetent? Jeff Bezos
technology thinking years
I think technology advanced faster than anticipated. In that whirlwind, a lot of companies didn't survive. The reason we have done well is because, even in that whirlwind, we kept heads-down focused on the customers. All the metrics that we can track about customers have improved every year. Jeff Bezos
technology years numbers
If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness. Jeff Bezos
technology water use
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now. Jeff Bridges
technique sensitivity
There is more sensitivity in technique than in the rest of the picture. Georges Braque
technology phones interesting
I've noticed that nowadays I'm doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn't do earlier. And I can feel my brain being rewired: I'm getting anxious, I'm getting more manic. Now, I'm an extreme case because I'm old and I'm overdoing it. But still, it's really interesting that I can actually feel a change in my neurochemistry from this interaction with the technology. George Saunders
technology television transition
Were in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all. Jeff Zucker
technology voice people
Technology has brought us to a point in which hundreds of millions if not billions of people have a voice, each voice can now be heard. Jeff Pulver
technology cds museums
A CD. How quaint. We have these in museums. Eoin Colfer
technology player people
I mistrust these people in music industry who can be everybody. This is where technology dictates to them. I mistrust that, that in somehow the chips capture the soul of a player, that's patent nonsense. Elvis Costello
technology electric-vehicles goal
Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology. Elon Musk
technology thinking cells
If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive. Elon Musk
technology people valleys
Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world. Elon Musk
technology space three
It is despairing to consider that the cost and reliability of access to space have barely changed since the Apollo era over three decades ago. Yet in virtually every other field of technology, we have made great strides in reducing cost and increasing capability, Elon Musk
technology government research
Government isn't that good at rapid advancement of technology. It tends to be better at funding basic research. To have things take off, you've got to have commercial companies do it. Elon Musk
technology california fruition
I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor. Elon Musk
technology order two
There are really two things that have to occur in order for a new technology to be affordable to the mass market. One is you need economies of scale. The other is you need to iterate on the design. You need to go through a few versions. Elon Musk
technology subjectivity film
Film is the only technology that allows us to share subjectivity with someone else. Jason Silva
technology symbiosis tools
We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities. Jason Silva
technology thinking people
I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting. Jason Reitman
technology our-generation generations
The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up. Jason Mraz
technology thinking people
When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted. Hilary Rosen
technology innovation energy
I am going to bring back infrastructure jobs, advanced manufacturing jobs, clean renewable energy jobs, innovation, technology, small business. Hillary Clinton
technology policy
Let's face it, the U.S. government is woefully, woefully behind in all of its policies that affect the use of technology. Hillary Clinton
technology way may
Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves Herbert Simon
technology thinking people
There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, expands our ways of doing things. If we're bad people we use technology for bad purposes and if we're good people we use it for good purposes. Herbert Simon
technology europe people
The reason why there is more pessimism about technology in Europe has to do with history, the use of databases to keep track of people in the camps, ecological disasters. Evgeny Morozov
technology thinking design
For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use. Evgeny Morozov
technology may information
Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims. Evgeny Morozov
technology ipods chinese
iPod liberalism [is] where we assume that every single Iranian or Chinese who happens to have and love his iPod will also love liberal democracy. Evgeny Morozov
technology thinking criticism
When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy. Evgeny Morozov
technology government degrees
Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology. Evgeny Morozov
technology thinking would-be
If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense. Evgeny Morozov